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Profile
Founded in 1996, RadioScape has become a world leader in software solutions for Digital Radio. The company’s pioneering approach gives it the flexibility to add innovation and rapidly incorporate changes to suit evolving standards.
The first area to be targeted by the company was the Eureka 147 Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) standard that was just being finalised in 1997. This standard was going to be adopted by most countries in the world and hence the potential markets for products based on it was enormous.
RadioScape's first product was a software-based professional DAB radio test receiver for broadcasters and network operators that was announced in 1998. This brought RadioScape to the attention of Arqiva and the first of many successful partnerships with market leading companies was forged.
During 1999 Arqiva, in conjunction with RadioScape, developed a revolutionary, software-based new way of implementing, controlling and monitoring digital radio transmissions for the start of Digital One in November of that year, which is now used for virtually all commercial DAB radio stations in the UK. RadioScape's suite of professional broadcast products is being supplied to other operators around the world as other countries follow the UK's lead in rolling out DAB services.
This in-depth understanding of DAB broadcast technology, enabled RadioScape to address the receiver end of the market as well, giving the company a unique position of being an end-to-end innovator for DAB. The first product was a joint collaboration with Psion to develop a digital radio for the PC platform - the Psion Wavefinder - that was launched in 2000 to great acclaim and many awards.
As the DAB functionality for this was software running on a processor, it could be ported to other processors. RadioScape licensed this software to Texas Instruments, which resulted in the DRE200 that was launched in 2002. This is now one of the top selling DAB chips in the world and is used at the heart of RadioScape's own family of innovative DAB modules, which are designed into many of the leading DAB radio receivers. This was followed by the more powerful DRE310 that is used in a similar way.
In 2003, the company developed its first Digital Radio receiver module, the RS200. This DAB receiver module incorporated FM, RDS and complex analogue radio frequency tuner circuitry. The flexibility afforded by this software-based receiver module enabled digital radio manufacturers to significantly reduce their time to market.
In 2004, RadioScape engaged with a number of major broadcast industry partners (BBC, RTL, Texas Instruments) to drive the roll-out of a new global Digital Radio standard, DRM, which paved the way for the development by RadioScape of the first multi-standard radio receiver module, the RS500 , enabling a radio to receive DAB, DRM, FM and AM broadcasts.
The company has continued to enhance its broadcast system products, which has enabled it to address the emerging Mobile TV market based on the DMB standard. In 2005, RadioScape’s technology and products were used in a number of major Mobile TV field trials, most notably in China and in the UK, many of which have moved into commercial broadcasting.
In 2006 RadioScape continues to pioneer the development of Mobile TV with end-to-end solutions that are already commercially deployed such as BT Movio’s DAB-IP Mobile TV service in the UK and a significant number of Mobile TV broadcasting installations in China.
RadioScape uses its unique Software Defined Digital Radio approach to ensure that it can offer customers the latest features and greatest flexibility in its product offerings. It has leveraged its unique, end-to-end systems knowledge to become a world leader in Digital Radio broadcasting, advanced multi-standard Digital Radio modules, and Mobile TV.
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 Dave Hawkins, VP Business Development (left) and John Hall, CEO |
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