TY - JOUR T1 - CRC Mobile Broadcasting F/LOSS Projects JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - François Lefebvre AB - The Communications Research Centre Canada, the federal government's primary laboratory for advanced telecommunications research and development, has been at the forefront of new developments in mobile digital broadcasting technologies since their inception in the late 1980s. During this time, digital replacement technologies have been standardized in an effort to rationalize spectrum use and enhance broadcasting applications with datacasting services and associated program information. Eureka DAB was the first all-digital mobile broadcasting technology to be conceived, developed and deployed. It became a widely adopted standard for digital radio in many countries around the world in the mid-1990s. DAB was officially launched in Canada in 2000. This paper presents CRC's attempt to increase collaboration and innovation in the field of mobile broadcasting by developing and offering complete end-to-end Free, Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS) toolsets for the transmission and reception of DAB and FM/RDS applications and services. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/333 IS - March 2010 U1 - CRC François Lefebvre joined the Communications Research Centre, Canada, in 1999 to lead its Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting team. Since then, he has contributed to numerous national and international standardization efforts and research and development projects. His recent work has focused on creating and developing open software building blocks for next-generation mobile broadcasting networks, devices and applications. With his team, he launched the CRC mmbTools and Openmokast open source software projects. He writes about the future of broadcasting on his blog Broadcasting 2.0. Mr. Lefebvre graduated from Laval University in Electrical Engineering where he also completed his M.A.Sc. in 1989. He pursued his carreer in Europe, mainly in Germany, where he worked for ten years as engineer in research and development laboratories and as freelance supervisor of software developments on emerging multimedia and Internet platforms. ER -