NTT DoCoMo Develops One-To-Many Live Streaming via FOMA Network

date: August 28, 2001 - source: NTT DoCoMo

NTT DoCoMo announced that it and the U.S. company PacketVideo Corporation have jointly developed the world's first one-to-many live-video distribution platform that will enable delivery of live video streaming content over the network of NTT DoCoMo's 3G mobile communications service called FOMA. NTT DoCoMo and PacketVideo concluded a memorandum of understanding in January of this year and completed the platform-development work since then.

The new platform named FOMA Live-Video Distribution Platform enables video and data transferred in Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) to be converted into 3G-324M-based data compliant with FOMA visual-type handsets. The platform will enable users to enjoy video-streaming service in real time without having to install streaming media software in their terminals.

The platform also employs the MPEG4 (Moving Picture Experts Group-4) technology for its data-coding standards, and thus content providers will be able to distribute content not only to FOMA terminals but also to various PDAs. DoCoMo is planning to use a PHS network for distribution of video content to PDAs.

NTT DoCoMo has also announced that it will set up the FOMA Live Streaming Delivery Trial Consortium on September 20, 2001. The consortium will consist of 32 corporations and other organizations, and it will develop and study service applications for the FOMA Live-Video Distribution Platform. It also will verify the marketability of the service and will create and foster new markets for real-time video streaming using wireless terminals.

The consortium will conduct actual field trials of new live-video and archive-video streaming applications from October 1, 2001 through February 28, 2002, so as to verify the practical convenience and technical aspects of the new service. NTT DoCoMo will act as a secretariat of the Consortium and organize regular meetings.

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