News
November 11-12 2009 Fraunhofer FOKUS hosted the 5th International IMS Workshop in Berlin. In addition to the very interesting talks and discussions on the workshop, the FOKUS competence centers for Next Generation Network Infrastructures and Future Applications and Media presented their recent application prototypes realized with myMONSTER. more...
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Laboratories
The major focal point of the Open SOA Telco Playground is on the provisioning of telecommunications-oriented service capabilities based on state-of-the-art SOA principles to an open set of business domains.
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myLab bundles all innovative research threads at Fraunhofer FOKUS towards an open, interactive media and application platform based on the ideas of the Web.
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Cooperation
The myMONSTER Client Toolkit was created and is continously improved with the support of two departments of Technische Universität Berlin, the department Next Generation Networks (AV) and the department Open Communication Systems (OKS).
Applications
myMONSTER is the base for a number of prototype applications developed at Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. The applications demonstrated the usefulness of myMONSTER for the realization of domain-specific use cases and those spanning multiple domains at once, such as TV and mobile Web.
Telco Communicator Suite
It is a portable NGN client for unified communications and media delivery. It provides a java based framework that delivers a unified communication experience for all forms of IP based telecommunication – from Multimedia Telephony, to rich Presence, Group List Management, and push to share right up to media casting content. It is extremely powerful, yet lightweight enough to run on both fixed and mobile devices.
With this suite developers are provided high level APIs for easy integrating into their applications to enrich them with Telco aware services.
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Mobile Web Runtime 2
FOKUS' Mobile Web Runtime 2 (MWR2) extends popular Web browsers with new functions. Application developers can make use of these function when designing Web applications and Web widgets for mobile devices. Taking photos with the camera, sending video streams from one Web application to another or synchronizing clients of application in real-time are only a few examples of functions MWR2 supports. The functions are easily access through a couple of JavaScript APIs added to those already present in all Web browsers. To include functions and APIs with an application just a few lines of JavaScript are required in a Web page. more...
RiaIPTV
The past couple of years the term “Rich Internet Application” (RIA) has gained a lot of attention on the World Wide Web. With continuous increasing bandwidths and improved encoding algorithms, the technical foundation for interactive multimedia experiences is in place and ready to go. IPTV is one compelling example for using the Internet to deliver a new user experience which differs from the classical web page browsing. more...
Enriched P2P Multimedia Delivery
MONSTER serves as client platform for P2P Multimedia services like live-streaming, Video on demand and file-sharing. Essential service properties, like QoS, and Authentication are brought to the P2P world by the smart combination of P2P media delivery with NGN architectures and resource control. more...
