About Us

Be it on your mobile device, TV set or car - the FOKUS Competence Center for Future Media and Applications (FAME) develops future web technologies to offer intelligent services and applications. Our team of visionaries combines creativity and innovation with their technical expertise for the creation of interactive media. These technologies enable smart personalization and support future web functionalities on various platform from diverse domains.

The experts rigorously focus on web-based technologies and strategically use their open standards. In the FOKUS Hybrid TV Lab our experts develop future IPTV technologies compliant to current standards with emphasis on advanced functionality, convergence and interoperability. The FOKUS Open IPTV Ecosystem offers one of the first solutions for standardized IPTV services and core components of the OIPF standards.

Among key technologies are Media Web Runtime, Non-Linear Video, IPTV, Connected TV, Rich Media Entertainment as well as Mobile Web and Service Mash-ups. The portfolio is complemented by efficient Recommendation Systems and Social Network Management. The algorithms allow for an intelligent filtering of media content and thereby an exact adjustment of the applications to the personal interests of the user.

All technical solutions that are developed at the Competence Center comply with applicable international standards. Fraunhofer FOKUS is represented in European standardization committees like ETSI TISPAN, the Open IPTV Forum, W3C and WAC and thus decisively contributes to the definition of standards and their worldwide implementation.