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MediaFLO

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MediaFLO is a new technology, designed for broadcast data to portabe devices like cell phones or PDAs. The “F-L-O” in MediaFLO stands for Forward Link Only. MediaFLO data stream is 200-250 kbps.
MediaFLO was developed by Qualcomm, San Diego, California based, research and development company which is active on the field of a wireless telecommunications.
Data broadcasted by MediaFLO technology include multiple real-time video and audio streams, IP Datacast application and individual, non-realtime video and audio sequences.
In MediaFLO technology all data are transmitted from the tower to the device, data path is one-way.
First devices supported MediaFLO was introduced by Samsung and LG. MediaFLO is a competitor to the European DVB-H standard and the Korean T-DMB standard.

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