Full Support for 3GPP and 3GPP2
3GPP and 3GPP2 are the worldwide standards for the creation, delivery and playback of multimedia over 3rd generation, high-speed wireless networks. Defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project and 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 respectively, these standards seek to provide uniform delivery of rich multimedia over newly evolved, broadband mobile networks (3rd generation networks) to the latest multimedia-enabled cell phones and QuickTime has adopted 3GPP & 3GPP2 into the core architecture giving hundreds of millions of QuickTime users mobile multimedia capabilities.
QuickTime enables consumer and professionals to create, deliver and play back mobile multimedia content using the Industry-standard mobile file formats 3GPP and 3GPP2.
QuickTime and 3G
The QuickTime family of standards-based products provides the industry’s most versatile, cost-effective solution for the creation, delivery and playback of mobile multimedia over 3G networks. When deployed on a high-speed mobile network, QuickTime brings to life exciting new mobile services that will entertain and inform subscribers and generate new revenue streams for mobile operators and content providers. Combined with Apple’s wide range of professional and consumer hardware and software products, QuickTime provides a complete, end to end solution for key 3G service offerings such as video messaging and multimedia publishing.
QuickTime is the industry leading mobile multimedia solution that offers:
- The industry’s first mainstream content creation, delivery and playback solution with native 3GPP and 3GPP2 support.
- Hundreds of millions of distributed players for seamless playback of handset-generated multimedia on the desktop.
- Robust native support of mobile standards enabling seamless interoperability with operator infrastructure and multimedia capable handsets.
- QuickTime Pro, an easy-to-use, low-cost consumer editing and encoding tool for the Mac and PC.
- A variety of QuickTime-powered editing and encoding tools on the Mac and PC for professional content creators.
- Highly scalable and cost-effective media delivery solution leveraging the power of Xserve, Xserve RAID, OS X Server and QuickTime Streaming Server.
- Robust hardware and software based multimedia messaging and publishing solutions for mobile operators, content providers and handset manufacturers.
