News & Events

The WP6 Worshop of the ALICANTE Project will be organized and hosted by TH-VN in Cesson-Sévigné, Rennes, FRANCE.

On February 06, 2012.

The eighth plenary meeting of the ALICANTE Project will be hosted by FTB and RSN  in Issy-les-Moulineaux , Paris, FRANCE.

On February 07-09, 2012.

In the video below Verizon makes an introduction to its plans for a new all-in-one set-top-box. The launch date is expected within 2012. I liked this video for two reasons:

First, that one line of reasoning behind this product is energy efficiency. Practically, the new Verizon’s STB will eliminate the need to have multiple media gateways in your home. Verizon’s home box will feed the content stream to all available devices inside the home. This will save both space in your living room as and it will also reduce the overall power consumption (fewer devices to power).

Second, the functionality of Verizon’s box fares resemblance to some of the features of ALICANTE’s Home Box (HB). Naturally, HB is designed to offer enhanced open access functionality which will allow users to use more than one service provider via the same box.

You can read a report about it at techcrunch.com.

The DASH specification has been ratified  during the last meeting of the Motion Pictures Experts Group (MPEG). After the specification was frozen technically in August 2011, MPEG-DASH was streamlined in the group’s meeting in Switzerland the 2 December.

The importance of DASH to dynamic adaptation is that it allows adaptive delivery via HTTP to two types of stream segments — multiplexed streams using MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) or elementary streams using fragmented MP4 files (fMP4).

For an introduction to MPEG-DASH read this.

For more, read the editorial at streamlinemedia.com.

The seventh plenary meeting of the ALICANTE Project will be hosted by OPTEC and BandWD  in Tel-Aviv , ISRAEL.

On December 06-08, 2012.

The NEM Summit 2011 was held on 27. – 29. September 2011 in Turin, Italy.

UNI-KLU participated at the NEM Summit Art & Design Contest with a demonstration video.  The video can be found here.

A workshop on Future Media Distribution Networks was held by the projects COMET and ENVISION on 10 & 11 November 2011 in at the O2 premises in Slough, UK.

ALICANTE participated in the workshop with a presentation on Scalable Video Coding in Content-Aware Networks.

Photos of the workshop are available on ALICANTE’s facebook page.

The sixth plenary meeting of the ALICANTE Project will be hosted by UNI-KLU in Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA,

On September 20-22, 2011.
Web page: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at

The meeting will be co-located with the plenary meeting of the P2P-Next project.