Frontier Silicon and Factum Electronics have had a strategic alliance to supply broadcasters with complete broadcast solutions for mobile TV and digital radio since April 2006 (news release).
Factum Electronics is a leader in digital broadcast technology for head-end infrastructure. The complete solutions jointly offered by Factum and Frontier allow broadcasters to benefit from and adopt new T-DMB/DAB features quickly, and yield complete, well-tested and flexible solutions featuring a higher level of quality and stability.
Factum specializes in professional products for DAB, T-DMB and NICAM. Key customers among others are BBC, KBS, Radio Beijing Corporation (RBC), Samsung Electronics, KBS, T-Systems, etc. All T-DMB applications on air in South Korea use the Factum solution.
The company develops and delivers products for audio, video and data signal processing, encoding and multiplexing. Factum’s systems fully support DAB, T-DMB and DAB-IP including Chinese characters, CA and EPM. Factum head-end systems are recognized for their flexibility and reliability, and are used by professional broadcasters all over the world.
Factum Electronics also offers middleware, software modules for receiver chip manufacturers. The products include base-band decoding of EPG, MOT etc. In addition, Factum offers test and measurement equipment.
