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FREMONT, CA - July 18, 2006 -
The widespread delivery of live multimedia content
to mobile handsets reached a significant milestone
this week on news that the Telecommunications
Industry Association (TIA)'s TR-47.1 Subcommittee
has officially approved publication of the FLO™
Air Interface Specification (AIS) as TIA-1099.
The AIS was the first technical specification
produced and approved by the FLO Forum, an association
of wireless industry leaders committed to advancing
the global standardization of FLO™ technology.
The TIA's TR-47 Engineering Committee is responsible
for the development and maintenance of Terrestrial
Mobile Multimedia Multicast (TM3) standards while
TR-47.1 is a subcommittee focused on FLO technology
standardization.
"Approval of the Air Interface
Specification is an important part of the process
of developing a complete set of standards based
on FLO technology," said Dan Bart, senior
vice president, Standards and Special Projects,
at TIA. "The FLO Forum is playing a key role
in making FLO specifications open and uniform
for developers. This effort dovetails perfectly
with the TIA's desire to standardize the technologies
needed by industry for use in Terrestrial Mobile
Multimedia Multicast."
The Air Interface Specification
defines the radio protocols used over the air
between the FLO network and a FLO device for the
delivery of multicast services. The AIS enables
the efficient delivery of multiple multimedia
streams, including simultaneous wide-area and
local-area content, over standard TV channel allocation
bandwidths while ensuring fast service acquisition,
fast service, or channel switching times, and
robust performance in mobile fading links, and
all combined to achieve low receiver power consumption,
among many other features.
"Publication of the FLO Air Interface Specification
by the TIA TR-47.1 engineering subcommittee marks
a significant milestone in the FLO Forum program
of promoting global open standardization of FLO
technology," said Dr. Kamil A. Grajski, president
of the FLO Forum. "The FLO Forum believes
that open standardization is essential for developing
a competitive marketplace for vendors and operators
to bring advanced multimedia applications to consumers
worldwide."
About FLO Technology
FLO technology is a new air interface with multicasting
capabilities designed to increase capacity and
reduce content delivery costs to mobile handsets.
FLO technology enables mobile users to see and
hear a variety of relevant content for the mobile
consumer.
Designed from the ground up specifically to multicast
significant volumes of rich multimedia content,
FLO enables wireless operators to cost-effectively
deliver 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.
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 develop products and services,
based on FLO technology, 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.
For more information on membership and the FLO
Forum, please visit www.floforum.org.
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FLO is a trademark of QUALCOMM Incorporated. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
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