Motorola has chosen the internet protocol (IP) as the multimedia platform of the future across all of its business. That means developing IP for cellular and private wireless, satellite, copper networks, paging and hybrid fibber-coax broadband systems. The architecture should bring multiple IP services directly to people’s homes. The technologies required to do this are to be drawn from Motorola’s new internet and networking group, ING (CI No 3,499) and from partner NetSpeak Corp. At the Western Cable Show in Anaheim, California this week, the ING plans to show off voice-over-IP and a cable modem in a single box. The company also wants to demonstrate a multimedia terminal adapter (MTA-1). Meanwhile in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Lucent Technologies subsidiary elemedia has licensed its H.323 protocol stack to Com21 Inc, MediaGate Inc and Comdial Corp. H.323 is an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) umbrella recommendation for multimedia communications over local area networks which have no quality of service guarantees. All three companies say they plan to use elemedia’s H.323 stack in their voice-over-IP products.
