February 24, 2014
InterDigital at MWC 2014: Creating the Living Network Through New Technologies, Streaming Demos and Thought Leadership
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 24, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- Under the banner of "Creating the Living Network," InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq:IDCC), a wireless research and development company, today unveiled its new technologies and initiatives for Mobile World Congress, the industry's premier conference, which is taking place in Barcelona.
The company's presence at MWC 2014 includes a number of new initiatives that cement the company's role as a technology innovator and thought leader. In terms of product and technology demonstrations:
The company will unveil a live demo of a 3.5GHz radio featuring guaranteed Quality of Service - an industry first public demonstration, and a significant advancement in the operator feasibility of shared spectrum in line with U.S. and international initiatives to free new sources of spectrum.
InterDigital will also demo a variety of video technologies that are designed to significantly reduce bandwidth in both streaming and real-time video.
The company will also feature Smart Access Manager, the company's Wi-Fi management client that is in field trials with top-tier operators worldwide, as well as ground-breaking 5G research focused on millimeter wave backhaul.
In a first, InterDigital's Innovation Partners unit will host demo areas from partners DDD Group, VTT Technical Research Centre and BIO-key International.
"Innovation is the lifeblood of InterDigital, and this year's Mobile World Congress is a tremendous opportunity for our company to show not only what we're doing with our Innovation Labs research teams, but also what the research teams that are part of our Innovation Partners effort are contributing in terms of technology," said Scott A. McQuilkin, Senior Executive Vice President, Innovation. "Most importantly, it's clear that our innovation footprint is continuing to grow, beyond core network and device operations and into exciting areas like video, security and context awareness."
InterDigital is also hosting a number of events, streaming live to the Web. In collaboration with LiveCast and Inmarsat, InterDigital will host video playback of live and pre-recorded band performances from around Barcelona, using LiveCast's end to end platform for live video broadcasting - which integrates InterDigital scaling technology for bandwidth savings - and a satellite uplink from Inmarsat.
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