»  MUSIS: A collaboration project between academy, the telecom sector and the media industry for the development of mobile services at two university campuses

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The MUSIS project is partially funded by governmental bodies - Swedish Vinnova and Israels Matimop - as part of the SIBED program, a joint Swedish-Israeli mobile technology research effort. More information about the MUSIS project can be found at http://www.musis.se

Description   CONTACT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Mr Marcelo Milrad Center for Learning and Knowledge Technologies (CeLeKT). School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering Växjö University 351 95, Växjö, Sweden marcelo.milrad@msi.vxu.se The main objectives of the MUSIS (MUlticast Services and Information in Sweden) project are to explore, identify, and develop a variety of mobile services with multimedia information to be distributed over wireless networks using multicasting solutions at two university campuses, one in Växjö and one in Stockholm.   MUSIS brings together TeliaSonera, Sweden's biggest telecom operator, Växjö University (VXU), the city of Stockholm and Bamboo MediaCasting, an Israeli company pioneering in the field of cellular multicasting.   Also, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and Smålandsposten, a local Swedish newspaper, are strongly involved in this project.   One of the major goals of the project is to design and evaluate concepts and early prototypes of rich media multicast services to be delivered to smart phones by using wireless multicasting solutions.   Services developed in MUSIS are organized as a range of channels to which users can subscribe. Each user can build a personal portfolio of services according to his/her area of interest. Multimedia content is sent, according to a predefined time schedule, to subscribers over the cellular network using multicast technology.   The digital content used in the ongoing trials at Växjö University ranges from TV news to music, entertainment videos, general information related to the student's activities, lecture notes (including video and sound), and specific information about the courses. [see the website]