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  Internet Streaming Media Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) was Founded in December 2000, by Apple, Cisco Systems, IBM, Kasenna, Philips, and Sun Microsystems.
The ISMA is a diverse alliance with representatives from all points of the streaming work-flow.
ISMA specifications typically adopt existing specifications in order to form a complete solution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internet_Streaming_Media_Alliance   (294 words)

  
 Streaming Magazine
The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), a global alliance of industry leaders in content management, distribution infrastructure, and streaming media, today announced that it is assembling a panel of outside experts to advise the alliance on issues critical to the content provider community.
The ISMA content advisory panel will be chaired by industry expert Philip L. Engelhardt and will be comprised of members representing a cross-section of sectors including the entertainment and medical communities, government, academia, and private industry.
The Internet Streaming Media Alliance is a non-profit corporation founded in 2000 by Apple (AAPL), Cisco (CSCO), IBM (IBM), Kasenna, Inc., Philips (PHG), and Sun Microsystems (SUNW) to accelerate the market adoption of a universal, open standard for streaming rich media over the Internet Protocol (IP).
www.cwru.edu /its/news/archive/streaming/Streaming.htm   (450 words)

  
 Internet Streaming Media Alliance Releases ISMA 1.0
ISMA 1.0 is the first implementation specification developed by the ISMA, a group of industry leaders in content management, distribution infrastructure and media streaming working together to promote open standards for developing end-to-end media streaming solutions.
ISMA 1.0 provides a step-by-step implementation agreement that enables compliant components to be interoperable between different ISMA-supported vendors in the rich media marketplace.
The broad industry participation in ISMA will allow the content industry to rapidly embrace the concept of "one standard -- one encode", regardless of the receiving platform, and provide the assurance for the consumers that their investment in rich media streaming devices will not be obsolete.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-02-2001/0001583475&EDATE=   (600 words)

  
 Internet streaming media alliance formed: ZDNet Australia: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Currently, there are several disparate formats for delivering rich streaming media, which has made it costly for service providers, vendors and others to take advantage of the market opportunities, said executives with the alliance founders.
Streaming media is playing an increasingly larger role in the enterprise, especially for delivering e-learning services and company conferences.
The demand for streaming media in the business world is growing, as was illustrated last month with the partnership between Microsoft and Eloquent and another between Intel and Media 100.
www.zdnet.com.au /news/print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=20107593-39023165t-10000000c   (450 words)

  
 O'Reilly Network -- The State of Streaming Media
In addition, streaming media over a modem is blurry due to the use of a high-compression codec.
Having three formats forces streaming media providers to use different streaming software to produce each type of clip, while end-users are stuck downloading endless versions of increasingly bloated media player software to view the tiny, blurry video.
At the end of 2000, the streaming media industry was quick to boast of a successful year, pointing to a 65 percent growth in streaming media downloads -- from 21 million in 1999 to 34.7 million in 2000, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2001/01/12/streamingmedia.html   (1008 words)

  
 Streamingmedia.com: Internet Streaming Media Alliance Formed
All across the exhibit floor at Streaming Media West, MPEG-4 decorates signs promising a future in which the dwindling breed of content companies can deliver content to a mass audience with relative ease and reduced cost.
ISMA intends to define a complete end-to-end specification; however, it will be player agnostic.
It is undeniable that the streaming media industry as a whole, would stand to gain from interoperable standards and a simplified end-user experience.
www.streamingmedia.com /article.asp?id=6627   (801 words)

  
 Streaming Media -Will it Overtake Television?
Streaming media is the latest techno beast to be tamed online and if recent stats are any indication it may well surpass television as the media of choice.
The media stream was delivered at 700 kbps for people with extremely fast Internet connections and at 300, 128, 80 and 56 kbps for people with slower connections.
Media streaming is an expensive technology to implement and by creating common standards it should make it a more affordable and favorable venture to pursue.
www.the-surfs-up.com /news/news4p1.html   (2526 words)

  
 September 2002 - ISMA And M4IF Announce Joint Interoperability Testing Program - iCOM Magazine
Amsterdam, 13th September 2002: The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) and the MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) are to engage in joint interoperability testing, starting with a joint interoperability-testing event of ISMA v1.0 -based products and services in October.
ISMA's interoperability program has held over ten (10) "Plug Fests" where any one event generally involves around 20 to 30 of ISMA’s member companies testing and refining their ISMA v1.0 implementation.
The Internet Streaming Media Alliance is a non-profit corporation founded by Apple (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), IBM (IBM), Kasenna, Inc., Philips (PHG) and Sun Microsystems (SUNW) to accelerate the market adoption of an international ubiquitous open implementation specification for streaming rich media over the Internet Protocol (IP) that encompasses scalability, ease of use and effectiveness.
www.icommag.com /september-2002/september-isma-m41f.html   (481 words)

  
 Microsoft shuns streaming media alliance - vnunet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The companies said the alliance aims to accelerate the broad adoption of standards and interoperability to streaming media content over IP networks.
However, streaming media heavyweights Microsoft and RealNetworks are not included in the list of members, although they have both been invited to join.
ISMA has been working on an initial specification for streaming Mpeg-4 video and audio over IP networks, which will be circulated for review and presented at the alliance's first formal meeting in February.
www.vnunet.com /vnunet/news/2114283/microsoft-shuns-streaming-media-alliance?vnu_lt=vnu_art_related_articles   (511 words)

  
 creativepro.com - Apple Becomes Part of Streaming Media Alliance
The goal of ISMA is to set open standards for how media is streamed over the Internet.
ISMA plans to create a standards based, bandwidth scalable, player neutral, streaming media format.
Although standards already exist for the fundamental pieces required to deploy streaming media solutions over IP, ISMA will adopt elements of existing standards and contribute to those still in development in order to create a cross-platform, multi-vendor standard.
www.creativepro.com /printerfriendly/story/10480.html   (299 words)

  
 Internet alliance announces encryption spec for streaming media
WAYNE, N.J. — The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) has developed an encryption specification that the organization says will layout a framework for the secure delivery of audio and video streams over IP links.
ISMA's spec calls for the video or audio identifier tag in an IP header to be replaced with a tag that signifies encrypted audio or encrypted video, Fisher said.
ISMA was formed in 2000 to accelerate the adoption of streaming media over IP links.
www.commsdesign.com /printableArticle?articleID=18300035   (334 words)

  
 Internet Streaming Media Alliance :: Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) Forms IPTV Workgroup
ISMA members actively participating in the IPTV working group include representatives from AOL, Cisco, Envivio, IBM, Philips, Optibase, and Thomson.
Founded in 2000, the ISMA is a global alliance of industry leaders dedicated to the adoption and deployment of open standards for streaming rich media such as video, audio, and associated data over Internet protocols.
ISMA collaborates with industry analysts to track standards adoption, as well as with other trade associations and standards bodies to promote interoperable solutions across the entire content delivery spectrum.
sev.prnewswire.com /computer-electronics/20050830/NETU03430082005-1.html   (433 words)

  
 Internet Streaming Media Alliance — ISMA — Welcomes Four New Members; Coding Technologies, ContentGuard, ...
The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), a global alliance of industry leaders in content management, distribution infrastructure, and streaming media, today announced that its membership base has expanded to include four new companies.
"The expansion of the alliance's membership base reflects an increasing recognition of the importance of our standards and interoperability goals -- both to consumers and to the continued development of the streaming media industry as a whole," he added.
Jacobs noted that 2002 was a banner year for the alliance with the release of the ISMA v1.0 specification.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_Jan_21/ai_96642602   (394 words)

  
 Tech giants push MPEG-4 standard - ZDNet UK News
For ISMA, the specification is the latest effort to create open standards in streaming media.
According to Baumeister, ISMA 1.0 could shorten these gaps by freeing content creators and distributors from depending on a single vendor for streaming media technology.
With ISMA 1.0, he said, companies would only need to encode the content once to stream it over all compliant players.
news.zdnet.co.uk /internet/0,39020369,2096670,00.htm   (713 words)

  
 PCWorld.com - Vendors Ally for Streaming Media Standard
The promise of streaming media can be realized only if there is a single standard for consumers, service providers, network operators, equipment suppliers, and content providers, says William J. Raduchel, chief technology officer of America Online.
The alliance plans to adopt elements of standards that already exist for the deployment of streaming media over IP and contribute to those still in development.
The first specification from the ISMA will define an implementation agreement for the streaming MPEG-4 video and audio format over IP networks and will be circulated for review and input at the first formal meeting of ISMA in February 2001.
www.pcworld.com /resource/article/0,aid,36533,00.asp   (431 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Internet Streaming Media Alliance forms IPTV workgroup
The goals of the workgroup are to monitor developing standards or specifications for deploying an IPTV system, to create an interoperability conformance program for IPTV and to promote solutions that pass conformance testing.
ISMA is a global alliance of industry leaders dedicated to the adoption and deployment of open standards for streaming rich media such as video, audio, and associated data over Internet protocols.
Recognizing a clear need for standardization in many areas, the ISMA has created an IPTV work group to recognize and promote interoperable solutions where multi-vendor competition can be assured," ISMA IPTV workgroup chairman Jean-Francois Fleury said.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k5/aug/aug338.htm   (244 words)

  
 Internet Streaming Media Alliance Launches the ISMA Conformance Program at IBC 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The ISMA Conformance Program is structured as a self-test process that provides participants with discrete, conformance test suites for each profile, or encoding layer.
The alliance published its first specification, ISMA 1.0, in 2001, and released earlier this year the first DRM specification in the industry, ISMA Authentication and Encryption 1.0.
Founded in December 2000, the Internet Streaming Media Alliance is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to accelerate the market adoption of a universal, open standard for streaming and progressive download of rich media over all types of Internet Protocols(IP).
www.tmcnet.com /scripts/print-page.aspx?PagePrint=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/sep/1072263.htm   (589 words)

  
 Industry sings MPEG-4 harmony | Tech News on ZDNet
An Internet streaming group on Tuesday endorsed a licensing plan for MPEG-4 audio compression, sidestepping controversy that has erupted around a highly anticipated sister video technology put forward as part of a proposed digital media standard.
ISMA President Tom Jacobs agreed, calling the audio terms "fair." He said it is impractical to expect content owners or distributors to adopt a format that involves use fees.
ISMA and patent holders are wagering that the audio licensing plan will enable software developers, hardware vendors and content companies create a new generation of products and services based on MPEG-4.
news.zdnet.com /2100-1009_22-869364.html   (855 words)

  
 Apple - QuickTime - Technologies - MPEG-4
QuickTime Streaming Server and Darwin Streaming Server are also available to stream.mp4 files.
Media companies save time and resources by encoding material once for playback everywhere.
And of course, resources saved in encoding, hosting and storing media can be better used to create a wider library of digital media, which benefits the entire Internet community.
www.apple.com /quicktime/technologies/mpeg4   (1119 words)

  
 ISMA Forms Content Advisory Board
The new board's purpose, according to ISMA, will be to address pertinent issues facing the content owner community, which includes the protection of digital content and rights management and safeguarding equity and shareholder value.
ISMA, a non-profit corporation founded by Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart), Apple Computer (Quote, Chart), IBM (Quote, Chart), Kasenna, Philips Electronics (Quote, Chart), and Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) is an industry alliance dedicated to the adoption of a universal, open standard for streaming media over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
ISMA also recently issued new membership initiatives aimed at making the alliance more accessible to educational organizations, non-profits, and startups.
siliconvalley.internet.com /news/print.php/1730891   (382 words)

  
 Alliance formed to promote open streaming media standards
Conspicuously missing from the list of ISMA members, though, is Microsoft and RealNetworks, whose streaming media platforms comprise the vast bulk of players currently on the market.
ISMA members are looking to MPEG-4, a video standard primarily developed for low bitrate applications such as streaming video over the Internet as well as delivering rich media to wireless devices.
The alliance is also working on other areas of streaming media, including reliable quality of service, digital rights management and billing as well as other technologies and services important to the formation of end-to-end streaming media services.
www.digitalbroadcasting.com /content/news/article.asp?DocID={C9725BC6-D115-11D4-8C88-009027DE0829}&VNETCOOKIE=NO   (358 words)

  
 MPEG-4 Consortium Keys on Security - The Community's Center for Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Members of the board have yet to be announced, but ISMA president Tom Jacobs said the group has talked with all the major Hollywood studios and the Motion Picture Association of America about the specification.
ISMA, said the group has formed a content advisory board to develop the digital rights spec with input from chief technical officers from a number of content companies.
ISMA launched in late 2000 in an effort to accelerate the market adoption of open standards for streaming rich media over Internet Protocol.
www.linuxsecurity.com /content/view/113340/65   (893 words)

  
 Streaming media: A case for open standards | Perspectives | CNET News.com
But streaming video and videoconferencing have not yet quite challenged the quality, simplicity or ubiquity of commercial television.
Streaming media was born to deliver audio, then audio and video, over the Internet.
The digital streaming media industry, without the benefit (or obstacle, depending on your point of view) of government mandate, faces the same issue.
news.com.com /2010-1025_3-5099118.html   (1119 words)

  
 Progress on Advancing Streaming Media Standard
standards bodies are putting their heads together for interoperability testing of the standard that is poised to propel the next generation of streaming media delivery.
ISMA's interoperability program has held over 10 "Plug Fests" where member companies test and refine their ISMA v1.0 implementation.
ISMA is a non-profit corporation founded by Apple (Quote, Chart), Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart), IBM (Quote, Chart), Kasenna, Philips (PHG) and Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart).
siliconvalley.internet.com /news/print.php/1462931   (431 words)

  
 Fraunhofer IIS - Audio & Multimedia Realtime Systems - Projects and R&D Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Streaming - playing back multimedia data while they are being transferred through a network - is the key to future multimedia applications.
Two important examples are the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) and the 3rd Generation Partnership Program (3GPP) streaming specifications, which provide a broad industry consensus on interoperable multimedia streaming technology.
In the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) specifications, technology profiles for interoperable multimedia Internet streaming are specified, based on MPEG-4 for video and audio coding.
www.iis.fraunhofer.de /amm/projects/multimedia   (715 words)

  
 Coding Technologies | press release
"The expansion of the alliance's membership base reflects an increasing recognition of the importance of our standards and interoperability goals - both to consumers and to the continued development of the streaming media industry as a whole", he added.
"Nextreaming is pleased to continue it's ISMA membership after its spin-off from Serome Technology and to support its efforts to encourage market adoption of open standards for streaming rich media over the Internet Protocol", he added.
Today, the alliance is comprised of nearly forty companies representing all facets of media creation, distribution and consumption over IP.
www.codingtechnologies.de /news/assets/20030121_joinisma_eng.htm   (1211 words)

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