Media and Networks Cluster Major Themes
Media and Networks Cluster organizes its research, development and innovation projects around 7 themes:
Theme 1: Image chain services: from HD TV to Rich Media. Benefit from the improvements in imaging to modify the production chain and develop content access and personalization tools and services.
Theme 2: Images on the move Design and experiment new content and use formats obtained through the mixture of broadcasting and mobile communication.
Theme 3: Image networks . Anticipate networks and network technologies of the future: optical technologies, Ipv6 protocols for the Internet of the future, New Generation Network, new radio and home network technologies.
Theme 4: Electronic content distribution . Design the various components of the content distribution chain, from creation to consumption, within an "all IP" symmetrised technology.
Theme 5: Network, content and personal data security . Help protect both the rights and environments of content creators, as well as those of its users.
Theme 6: Acceptance, interoperability and convergence platforms . Validate all technical interactions, realize the first usage validation before experimentation, be the cluster's showcase and a platform available to all participants (particularly smaller ones), in order to foster applicable content creativity.
Theme 7: Virtual reality and increased network reality . Design new services, at first for businesses, which combine virtual reality and increased reality technologies *.
Theme 8: Software. (April 2007) Bring to other fields the mastery of software engineering methods and tools. Favour software component emergence applied to the Media and Network fields activity and to their uses.
* immersion in a virtual world in 3-dimension realized by computer synthesis or superimposed to reality images in real-time.
Detailed presentation of the 7 Themes of the Cluster [ pdf / 592 KB ]
Image chain services: from HD TV to Rich Media
The challenge of this theme is to introduce new high definition Television services. It focuses on major quality improvements as well as new tools to customize content.
Theme 1: Image chain services: from HD TV to Rich Media [pdf / 78 kb] Images on the move
This theme focuses on conception and experimentation of new content and use formats obtained through the encounter between the worlds of TV broadcasting and mobile telecommunications. In this way, the Brittany Region becomes a world-class showcase for new uses, as it joins the leaders in this field, particularly those in South East Asia (Korea and Japan) who have already launched pilot sites.
Theme no. 2: Images on the move [pdf 163 KB]
Image networks
This theme anticipates the future developments in networks and technologies: optics, IPV6 and the evolution of New Generation Network architecture. It focuses on high bandwidth multi-service access networks, and on technologies and infrastructures necessary for providing high bandwidth image services to the client's terminal.
Theme 3: Image networks [pdf 55 kb]
Electronic content distribution
The objective of this theme is to develop technical solutions that allow routing attractive service offers to users through the IP network. This theme concentrates on the installation of mechanisms and technologies necessary and indispensable to delivering and exchanging audiovisual content. This content goes through the IP channels both to the individual and to the community. The electronic content distribution theme replies on the high bandwidth network infrastructure or "image networks theme".
Theme 4: Electronic content distribution [pdf 58 kb]
Network, content and personal data security
Security is a major component of an information technology and communications system. It is imperative to protect both the rights and environments of content creators, as well as those of its users. A large number of majors in this field are located in the Brittany region. The objective is to gather them together in order to propose solutions for the calamities of digital world.
Theme 5: Network, content and personal data security [pdf 69 kb]
Acceptance, interoperability and convergence platforms
Rapid developments in new technologies force industrialists to carry out a rapid succession of improvements to their equipment and solutions. These "products" must be tested as stand-alone systems, as well as part of the complete systems into which they will be integrated. This involves large-scale testing on a given perimeter (city, rural). Using technology the consumer usage model is also an essential vector for provisioning services, networks, protocols and their associated investments for telecom, content and consumer electronics industries. Standard provisions which can be integrated into each theme, will be dealt with in particular by this theme.
Theme 6: Acceptance, interoperability and convergence platforms [pdf 58 kb]
Virtual reality and increased network reality
Virtual reality is used more and more frequently in personal and professional applications. It has been identifies specifically in order to:
* Offer new communication and collaboration services combining both virtual reality and and increased network reality across high bandwidth networks.
* Respond to the growing needs of industry, defense and institutions, and anticpate the needs of consumers.
* Transfer technologies from public and private research centers to businesses.
Theme 7: Virtual reality and increased network reality [pdf 54 kb]
