Speedy Switching for DVB-H

Axel Technologies, which provides multimedia middleware for mobile devices, and Siano Mobile Silicon,  which supplies semiconductor solutions for Mobile Digital TV, have announced a comprehensive platform for DVB-H terminals, with record-fast channel switching time of less than two seconds. The platform is being demoed in a mobile phone at the Informa DVB-H conference in London which runs today and tomorrow.
The companies feature a comprehensive, highly optimized DVB-H solution, compliant with the MBRAI 2.0 specifications, based on Sianos SMS1010 integrated mobile TV receiver chip, and Axels Salmonstream DVB-H middleware. Among other features, the joint offering obtains the industrys fastest channel switching time, of two seconds.
The solution is targeting DVB-H enabled cellular phones, Smartphones, laptops, PDAs, pocket TVs, PMPs and GPS systems. DVB-H is already commercially deployed in Italy and is expected to be further deployed in additional countries within the next 9-12 months, including Germany, France, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, and more.
The combination of Salmonstream, Axels leading DVB-H middleware and the SMS1010, Sianos integrated receiver chip has enabled us to offer a fully optimized DVB-H solution, which achieves an unprecedented channel switching time, says Axel CEO, Petri Kalske. We are working very closely with Siano to provide our customers cutting edge technology, that will result with the most enjoyable and innovative user experience for DVB-H consumers.
Siano Mobile Silicon CEO Alon Ironi adds:
By integrating the fastest DVB-H receiver in the market with the most compact, efficient DVB-H middleware, we were able to obtain the industrys fastest channel switching time. At the same time, we have provided evidence that the commonly believed myth about DVB-H being slower than FLO is no longer relevant, and proved that the two technologies are practically equivalent.”
Ironi says that Siano and its partners are focused on perfecting the DVB-H offering so as to enable their customers to introduce devices that people will love to use.
The idea of Mobile TV is to take the experience of watching TV at the living room out to the street, and onto the end users palm he says. This means crystal-clear, multiple-channel, real-time audio and video experience packaged into an easy-to-use application, and this is exactly what Axel and Siano offer.”