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April 2018
5G-Xcast TM presentation at the 2018 NAB show
Dr. Athul Prasad from Nokia Bell Labs (technical manager of 5G-Xcast project) presented a lecture entitled “5G – A Key Enabler for New Verticals and Markets,” at the Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference as [...]
March 2018
DVB publishes draft Multicast-ABR logical reference architecture
5G-Xcast partners have contributed to a DVB Blue Book reference for delivering Adaptive Bit Rate unicast content over a multicast network. In unicast HTTP delivery, ABR content is pulled by devices as individual streams at [...]
5G-Xcast presentation at the WIVE project seminar on “The future of media in 5G”
Athul Prasad from Nokia Bell Labs (technical manager of 5G-Xcast project) presented an introduction of 5G-Xcast project to the audience, and views on how the project is addressing the disruptive use cases related to new [...]
Study on Implications of 5G Deployment on Future Business Models referencing 5G-Xcast
The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has commissioned DotEcon Ltd (DotEcon) and Axon Partners Group Consulting SL (Axon) to produce a report following a study on the implications of the 5G deployment [...]
Fairspectrum and Turku University of Applied Sciences demonstrate Licensed Shared Access on 2.3 GHz band
Fairspectrum and Turku University of Applied Sciences demonstrated Licensed Shared Access (LSA) on 2.3 GHz band in Turku, Finland on the 10th of January 2018. The spectrum was shared between Program Making and Special Events [...]
5G-Xcast participates at IEEE 5G Summit in Trento
Dr. Manuel Fuentes from Samsung participated at the IEEE 5G Summit in Trento, Italy, on March 6, 2018 and presented “the role of broadcast in 5G New Radio and beyond”. Dr. Fuentes focused on the [...]
5G-Xcast present at BES Expo in India
5G-Xcast Project manager, Dr. David Gomez-Barquero, gave the inaugural keynote at the 24th international conference and exhibition on terrestrial and satellite broadcasting organized by the Indian Broadcast Engineering Society. The BES Expo is the most [...]
January 2018
Point to Multipoint (PTM) will be one of the major items in the next phase of 3GPP work
Point to Multipoint (PTM) will be one of the major items in the next phase of 3GPP work. After producing a first version of 5G Rel-15 in December 2017, 3GPP RAN group is setting the [...]
5G-Xcast 3rd Face to Face Project Meeting in IRT, Munich, Germany
Come snow storms and high winds, nothing stops the 5G-Xcast consortium! Last week marked our 3rd face to face meeting, hosted by Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) in the beautiful city of Munich, Germany. There was once [...]
December 2017
Deliverable D3.1 – LTE-Advanced Pro Broadcast Radio Access Network Benchmark – Now Available
We are proud to share WP3 deliverable D3.1 "LTE-Advanced Pro Broadcast Radio Access Network Benchmark"; now available for download below (Also in our downloads section): Download Download [PDF ~6.5MB] Executive Summary This document [...]