Project Status

Finished

Tag Line

Cellular Access to Broadband Services and Interactive Television

Objective

The main objectives are: to design, build and demonstrate a working interactive cellular TV architecture at 40 GHz, capable of the delivering both broadcast and ATM-derived multimedia services; to compare the performance of this system with identified market requirements; to derive an exploitation plan for such services in the short/medium term; to determine the potential for migration (e.g. to near-symmetric interactive broadband services).

Founding

ACTS Program (European Commission)

Grow Contribution

Characterisation of the propagation channel, in both the narrow and wideband perspectives, at the 6 GHz band.

Partners

Thomcast (CH); Bosch, Deutsche Telekom (DE), SETELSA (ES); VTT (FI); Alcatel Telspace, CCETT, TDF, THOMSON (FR); CSELT, FUB, Seleco Multimedia (IT); Instituto Superior Técnico (PT); CRL, Queen's University Belfast (UK).