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2026: Fraunhofer IIS - Hear you at MWC Shanghai
Events & Tradeshows

MWC Shanghai: Enter a New Transformative Era of Voice and Audio Communication

As networks expand beyond terrestrial coverage and user expectations continue to rise, reliable, immersive, and efficient audio becomes a decisive factor. Fraunhofer IIS addresses today's and tomorrow’s communication challenges at MWC Shanghai 2026 – enabling new services, broader coverage, and better user experiences.

May 15, 2026
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Products & Technologies

Spatial Audio Designer with MPEG-H

The Hamburg-based company, which develops software tools for creating and authoring multichannel and immersive audio, launched the SAD Version 2 upgrade at the beginning of January. SAD V2 is a plug-in for any digital audio workstation (DAW) and offers a complete MPEG-H real-time workflow. Thanks to its intuitive user interface, audio and music producers can keep working with MPEG-H Audio without changing their established work processes. Tom Ammermann, general manager of New Audio...

Products & Technologies

Sony Introduces All New “360 Reality Audio” Based on MPEG-H

Sony is working with major music labels, music distribution services1 and other organizations to provide the technology for building a musical ecosystem around 360 Reality Audio, which will include the creation, distribution and playing of music content. Meanwhile, Sony is working to promote this new music experience to music creators, artists, and music fans, looking to create an entirely new...

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Products & Technologies

DRM’s Progress in India

The transition from legacy analog broadcasts to digital radio for the nationwide radio network in the former AM bands is seamless, as AIR is updating the existing transmitter infrastructure while offering analogue-digital simulcast services at the same time. Most recently, the digital encoders themselves have been upgraded with DRM’s mandatory audio codec xHE-AAC and were re-located to the studio for the best audio source quality. This upgrade process has already been carried out for...