MUMBAI: The digital audio and multimedia broadcast and receiver technology provider, RadioScape, has once again been selected to provide the broadcast technology for another Mobile TV trial.

Building on the success seen in the UK of the pilot DAB-IP service of BT Movio, which used RadioScape’s technology, and the joint trial by RTÉ, BT Movio and RadioScape in Dublin, the Centre of Excellence for Digital Broadcasting (CoEfDB) has just implemented a similar service on one of its four RadioScape Multiplexes in the Netherlands.

Willem Toerink of CoEfDB said, “RadioScape uses a very stable architecture of Internet Protocol (IP) to control content and internal communication within the multiplex. This has proved to be very reliable and has served us well over the past year on our four RadioScape DAB multiplexes. We are now taking DAB on to its logical next step of delivering Data and Mobile TV reliably to mobile handsets using DAB-IP.”

RadioScape has a long, established track record of providing DAB broadcasting systems including the world’s largest commercial DAB installation, which is located in the UK. It is also a leading provider of digital radio test equipment and receiver modules, states an official release.

“This Mobile TV solution is based on the well proven Eureka 147, DAB standard with an additional layer of algorithms to ensure robust signal protection and is called DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcast) or, specifically, DAB-IP (DAB Internet Protocol),” adds RadioScape’s senior VP of Sales and Operations Phil Smith. “DAB-IP was cited by many leading technology companies such as Microsoft at the 2006 3GSM conference as being a key enabling technology for Mobile TV deployment as it is proven in the field, robust and there are frequencies already available in most countries.”