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About the FLO Forum
The FLO Forum is a multi-company initiative committed
to advancing the global standardization of FLO
Technology. Composed of industry-leading organizations,
the FLO Forum works to promote the development
of FLO Technology based products and services
by its member companies to enable the delivery
of advanced multimedia services to wireless consumers.
The FLO Forum is organized to promote the global
standardization of FLO Technology, including compliance
and certification benchmarks for the technology.
FLO Forum Officers
Dr. Kamil Grajski, President
MaryBeth Selby, CFO and Corporate Secretary
Milestones/Important Dates
July 2005 - Inaugural Meeting
November 2005 - FLO (Forward Link-Only) Air Interface
Specification (AIS) Ratified
January 2006 - FLO AIS Submitted to TIA TR-47
Engineering Committee for Standardization
FLO Forum Members
Members of FLO Forum are representatives from
carriers, device manufacturers, infrastructure
manufacturers, and content providers. They are
all members of the value chain, and operating
in the new and emerging world of mobile mediacasting
industry to the global deployment of FLO technology.
To view our current list of members, please
check our website.
About FLO Technology
FLO Technology is a new air interface and end-to-end
system architecture designed to support Terrestrial
Mobile Multimedia Multicast (TM3) capabilities
that increase capacity and reduce content delivery
costs to mobile handsets. FLO Technology enables
mobile users to see and hear high quality video
and audio, browse news, sports and weather updates,
or watch the stock ticker - wherever they are,
anytime, and without delays.
Created specifically to multicast significant
volumes of rich multimedia content, such as multiple
real-time, streaming video channels, FLO enables
wireless operators to cost-effectively deliver
news, entertainment, and informational programming
in clips and streaming video to millions of mobile
users at once. FLO provides the technology for
distributing multimedia content efficiently and
economically without impacting current networks.
FLO Forum Structure
The FLO Forum is a contribution driven organization
with member companies providing technical and
market driven submissions towards the advancement
of the Forum's objectives.
The FLO Forum's organizational structure includes
a Board of Directors, a Secretariat and several
committees that have been set up to support forum
initiatives.
The FLO Forum currently has five committees,
each with their own area of focus and deliverables
all related to advancing the global reach of FLO.
- The Technical Committee focuses on the generation
of FLO technical specifications for all areas
of a FLO System including the FLO Air Interface
- The Services and Content Committee focuses
on FLO Service and Content Requirements Documents
which are then delivered to the Technical Committee
to generate specifications.
- Test and Certification Committee, in conjunction
with the Technical Committee, creates submission-ready
FLO Minimum Performance and Test Specifications.
- Regulatory Committee will deliver Spectrum
Requirements documents to the Technical Committee
and Submit spectrum issue to specific regulatory
bodies.
- External communications Committee
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