Platforms for Broadcast Services

New radio and television services require new infrastructures and applications which allow the public broadcasting organisations to perform their societal duties and responsibilities.

Therefore the department "Platforms for broadcast services" is concerned with solutions in various topics ranging from the signalisation of broadcast content and its accessibility, receivers functionalities, standards and characteristics of distribution platforms.

Main aspects

• Accessibility and rights management

• Interactive TV

• IPTV

• Hybrid receiver platforms: development and market launch of HbbTV

• Definition of requirements of APIs for broadcast services

• Aspects of wireless home networks (DLNA, UPnP, DVB-HN)

• Peer-to-Peer and other overlay-structures

• Analysis of transport streams and IP based transmission protocols

• Metadata and user profiling for services

• TV anytime

• Conformance Testing