3GPP Sets Standard for Mobile Video

Digital Fountains DF Raptor technology has been standardized by 3GPP, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, as a mandatory component of the Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) for 3G cellular networks. Commented Frederic Gabin, 3G Standards Project Leader at NEC, “Digital Fountain’s FEC provides the best of all worlds: low bandwidth overhead, low processing requirements for client devices, and effective protection of MBMS file transfer and streaming services from packet loss over 3G wireless channels.”  

3GPP is defining the future of 3G mobile communications for use around the world. Comprising various international standards bodies and industry associations as well as several hundred participating companies from around the world, 3GPP is chartered to prepare and maintain a complete set of globally applicable technical specifications for a 3G mobile system based on evolved GSM core networks and a variety of radio access technologies. Within that overall specification, 3GPP’s MBMS standard aims to provide uniform and efficient delivery of rich multimedia content over 3G mobile networks to the latest multimedia-enabled cell phones and mobile devices. Continue >>