Media Orientated Systems
    Transport

Function

Each passenger should have his own program which is supplied from a central facility in the front, this is the aim of the engineers who are working on the comfort- electronics for the coming years. The type of the data makes no difference to the digital system. As long as it concerns, in this case, audio- and video entertainment data, the data security is not important. It's a different story when the information being transferred becomes relevant for driving, when, e.g., streets, other vehicles and/or traffic signs are being scanned.

How it works

Since about 1985 we've been hearing about the development of the Controller Area Network- Bus (CAN-Bus). This is however, aimed especially at the transmission of steering data, and this, at a high safety level. Parallel to this, the D2B-optical-Bus was created - based on fiber-optic light conductors - for the transporting of great amounts of data and having a broad band-width in the area of the audio- and video systems. It was from this Bus-system that MOST appeared, a multi- media transport orientated system with which a, once again, increased transmission rate of 22.5 MBit/sec. was achieved. For the near future 150 MBit/sec. are being targeted.

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