:: Participants ::
Portugal Telecom Inovação, S.A. (Portugal)
Institut für Rundfunktechnik GmbH (Germany)
Joanneum Research GmbH (Austria)
Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain)
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany)
Fraunhofer-Institut für Sichere Informations-Technologie (SIT) (Germany)
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:: Portugal Telecom Inovação, S.A. (Portugal) :: |
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... is Portugal Telecom’s company for the development of new value-added services, products and applications in a contribution for leveraging the PT Group companies’ competitiveness and business.
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:: Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik Gmbh (Germany) :: |
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IRT, the Broadcast Technology Institute, was founded as a private company in 1956 as the central research and development stablishment for the public broadcasting organisations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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:: Institut Eurecom (France) :: |
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Institut Eurécom is an academic and research institute specializing in communications and network engineering. It offers a graduate teaching program in communications systems, in which students can specialize in either corporate, mobile or multimedia communications. It is also a leading research center in advanced communications and networking research. Institut Eurécom is located in Sophia-Antipolis, a major European technology park for telecommunications research and development. Institut Eurécom was founded in 1992 by EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne) and Télécom Paris (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications). It is administered by a consortium of academic and industrial partners. Institut Eurécom's academic and research activities are organized in three departments: Corporate Communications, Mobile Communications, and Multimedia Communications. Institut Eurécom has a motivation for excellence in education and research. Research projects are often conducted in collaboration with academic and industrial partners. Institut Eurécom is an active participant to national and European research programs. |
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:: Optibase Ltd. (Israel) :: |
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Optibase, Ltd. provides high-quality, cost-effective products that enable the preparation and delivery of MPEG-based digital media over broadband networks. Optibase has created a breadth of product offerings used in applications such as: video-on-demand; real-time video streaming; digital video archiving; distance learning; and business television. |
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:: Joanneum Research Gmbh (Austria) :: |
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Joanneum Research is Austria's largest provincially owned research institution and offers its services to business, industry and public administration in the field of applied research and development. Our more than 360 highly skilled employees work in all relevant sectors of innovation at a national and international level. As an innovation partner for business sectors and policy makers, JOANNEUM RESEARCH concentrates on applied research and development in key technologies on the threshold to the third millennium. The Institute of Information Systems and Information Management has its focus on Digital Media and web-based information systems. In the area of Digital Media we offer our expertise on content based multimedia indexing and retrieval, tools for MPEG-7 based applications as well as digital film restoration. |
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:: Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain) :: |
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URL (Ramon Llull University) was the first private non-profit university in Spain, proclaimed by unanimous vote by the Parlament de Catalunya (Catalan Regional Parliament) on the 10th of May 1991. Today it is one of the largest private universities in Spain with 10 Federated Institutions. One of them is La Salle School of Engineering and Architecture which provides degrees of Electronics, Computer Science, Telecommunication, Image & audio, Multimedia and Architecture (3+2 years curriculum and PhDs). In La Salle School of Engineering, the CeTVD (Digital Television Centre) was created with the intention to serve as a technical reference and support element to the implied companies in the Spanish TV sector. Apart from the direct collaboration with companies working in this field, the Centre has also as fundamental tasks the specialized training and the research in Digital TV and video. |
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:: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany) :: |
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RBB (Berlin Brandenburg Broadcasting Corporation) is the regional public broadcaster for the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg. Based both in Berlin and Potsdam it runs one regional television channel and seven radio stations. It also provides a wide range of online and videotext services. RBB is part of the German federal broadcasting network ARD (Association of Public Service Broadcasting Corporations in Germany). For ARD, RBB runs the ARD Berlin Studio, its Warsaw studio and the ARD Play-Out-Center. Here, RBB is actively involved in developing future proof media technologies. RBB has longstanding experience in EU co-funded research projects (IST, Esprit, telematic engineering and eContent). Both its predecessors, ORB and SFB, were involved in this field from 1997. So far, RBB has successfully concluded 15 such projects both as consortium leader or partner and is currently participating in IST projects ATHENA and PORTIVITY. |
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:: Fraunhofer-Institut für Sichere Informations-Technologie (SIT) (Germany) :: |
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Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft was founded in 1949 and is a recognized non-profit organization. It is Germany's leading organization for applied research. It undertakes contract research on behalf of industry, the service sector and government. Commissioned and funded by the Federal and State governments, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft also undertakes strategic research projects which contribute to development in key technologies. Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) helps clients in industry, commerce and public administration to eliminate security problems, to minimize risks and damage and to implement innovative business concepts efficiently. A team of around 80 highly qualified Institute staff members investigates threats and security precautions, advises customers on the optimum choice of system and test applications as well as services. The Institute’s activities are always tailored to specific threats as well as to the technical, the business and the legal needs of its clients. With its vast expertise, uniting practical experience and theoretical know-how, the Institute is ideally placed to manage, integrate, evaluate and test security with the requisite level of competence. At the same time, its neutrality guarantees absolute objectivity to customers and hence the best possible solution to any given problem. Within porTiVity we are focussing on media security challenges arising from innovative mobile broadcast services ensuring horizontal markets by enabling open and secure exchange of media material. |
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:: Octal TV (Portugal) :: |
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Octal TV - Engineering Systems for Interactive TV, S.A. is a Novabase company specialized on solutions of interactive broadband applications (equipment for transmission and reception) specifically in the arenas of digital television (DVB) for all major transmission systems. OctalTV offers a broad range of digital products for the reception and redistribution of digital television signals for cable, satellite and terrestrial communications. Specialized in platform development for DVB Set-Top-Boxes (STB) and mobile devices, Octal TV offers a full line of integrated television receivers and services both at home and with mobility. OctalTV complete solution includes services for hybrid Set-Top-Box with DVB and IP capability such as Video-on-Demand, IPTV, nVOD, PVR and nPVR, Video reception for mobile phones with integrated PDA, Portable Media Players, etc. OctalTV also represents several head-end equipments, allowing the delivery of a unique integrated solution for operators. |
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:: Deuromedia SRL (Romania) :: |
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Deuromedia is an international software company which offers a proven concept for transmission and reception of high-speed transfers. Deuromedia has the complete solution for all components of a transmission chain. The software platform developed by deuromedia provides the possibility of transferring big amounts of data by using broadband technologies by means of the infrastructure of satellites or metropolitan cable networks. |
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