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Administrative Information
Name of the testbed:	Media Interoperability Lab
Name of the principal organisation operates the Testbed:	Fraunhofer FOKUS - Competence Centers Smart Environments and Next Generation Network Infrastructures
Type of organisation:	Academic institute
Address of principal office of the testbed:	Fraunhofer FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin
Name of administrative contact person:	Robert Seeliger
	Tel (administrative):030 3463 7262
	E-mail (administrative):robert.seeliger@fokus.fraunhofer.de
Name of technical contact person:	Robert Seeliger
	Tel (technical):030 3463 7262
	E-mail (technical):robert.seeliger@fokus.fraunhofer.de
Permanent employees:	yes
Number of employees:	11
Name of the principal organisation that operates the testbed:	Fraunhofer FOKUS - Competence Centers Smart Environments and Next Generation Network Infrastructures
Type of organisation:	Academic institute
Principal area of activity:	Research
Principal sector of activity:	Telecommunications

Technical Information
Brief description of the testbed:
Converging technologies from the fields of broadcasting, internet and telecommunications, the Fraunhofer FOKUS Media Interoperability Lab creates new media applications distinguished by a high degree of interactive, personal and group-oriented usability. All its new developments and applications are based on international IPTV standards. Thus the FOKUS approach represents a significant advance on the IPTV blackbox solutions currently on the market which hardly offer open interfaces and reference points and only a strictly limited number of proprietary CE devices. The Lab’s partnership programs for industrial enterprises are geared to joint development work and the common realization of communication and marketing strategies.
Classification:	IPTV testbed, testbed for interactive, personalized and converged media services, Recommender
Components:	Content Management, Service Personalization Enabler, Service Ddiscovery & Selection, EPG, BCG, Recommender, Interactivity Function, Advertisement Enabler, AS, Web2.0 Enabler, UPSF, IMS Client, IPTV Client, Web Client, Media Server, Application Server, AS, SIPSEE, XDMS, Presence Server, Video on Demand, UPnP DLNA Server
Access networks:	WiFi,Ethernet,xDSL,3G/UMTS
Remote secure access:	VPN,SSH
Application keywords:	Community TV, Web2.0, VoIP, Cross-Fertilization, Service Personalization, Service Ddiscovery & Selection, EPG, BCG, Recommendation, interactive Media services, enhanced personalized Advertisement, Streaming, IPTV, Media Processing,Video on Demand, Home Media, Messaging, Presence
Testing keywords:	Conformance,Functionality,Interoperability,Other
Testing resources:	Benchmarking, SIP Tools
Main standards:	ETSI, TISPAN, DVB, ITU-T FG IPTV, Open IPTV Forum, Deutsche TV Plattform

Operational information
Description of the services offered:
Prototyping: We deliver prototype component implementations related to Media technology based on your requirements. Instantiation of customized Media Clients and AS: We equip your organization with a full IMS based Media Interoperability test environment to allow you run your own cross fertilization scenarios. Demo development & Proof-of-concept implementations: We develop demonstrations of such as Triple Play scenarios or interactive TV and more. We show that your ideas have the potential to become a success. Support in standardization Experts on IPTV will help you to push your standardization efforts and push your ideas or provide you with new visions Coaching / Tutorials: Based on the tremendous and recognized experience in the field, we offer different coaching and tutorial sessions to let you benefit from our knowledge. Consulting / Studies: Is there something about Media Technology you need to know in detail? Do you need to know it fast? We’ll provide you with scientific studies and consulting. Comprehensive Testbed Projects: Being a partner in many international projects in industry and academia we gathered considerable experience in terms of project management and long term project contributions.
Planned evolution of the technologies used and services offered:
Interactive Adaptive Media Services, Community based Rating & Recommendation using collaborative and item based recommendation supported by Web 2.0 technologies (e.g. service mash up). scalable recommendation solution / feedback based user modeling / IPTV with community & Web 2.0 service integration / Interactive TV experience / Personalized targeted Advertisements, Voting, Shopping as well as content based interaction schemes
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Target market:
Telecommunication Industry, Operators, Service Providers, Application Developers, Broadcasters, Content Proivders, Integrators, Academia
Unique offering:
As one of the worlds first testbeds for NGN-based IPTV, the Media Interoperability Lab is FOKUS’ answer to the current evolvements of various black-box solutions in the IPTV market by pushing ongoing IPTV standardization activities within the different SDOs towards open IPTV frameworks It represents FOKUS’ current activities and strategy in the direction of standardized solutions for IPTV following and inspiring ETSI TISPAN and DVB-IP connecting to open communities, Web 2.0 and of course interactive TV on the move and within the home network. Therefore the Lab utilizes the well known Open IMS Playground and makes use of already available features of this unique infrastructure, demonstrating the interaction between common NGN services and IPTV. As we are an independent research organisation, we are able to provide you tailormade solutions and support without any vendor lock-in.
Funding model:	Project based
Access policies to the testbed:	Restricted access
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Intellectual property handling:	NDAs with most of our partners
Repository of test results:	no
Access to repository of test results:	Several options
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