Introduction

Introduction

MOST is communications technology for multimedia applications, specially developed for use in the automobile. MOST stands for "Media Oriented System Transport".

The need for increasingly high-quality entertainment services (information and entertainment) makes high demands on vehicle developers. Digital information and entertainment services should be available to all vehicle occupants at any time they wish to use them. Available services include:

- Telephone
- Navigation services
- Telematics and ASSIST, Internet services (E-mail, web pages)
- Audio functions (radio, music cassettes, compact discs, CD changers)
- Video (DVD)

The information and entertainment services are required by different vehicle occupants at one time. This means they must be able to run parallel and synchronously without disrupting one another. The data transmission therefore requires a high band-width (data transfer rate).

Approx. 4 years ago, the following companies came together to develop a multimedia network to series maturity:

- Audi
- Becker
- BMW
- DaimlerChrysler

In 2001, MOSTCo (Cooperation) has approx. 65 members. In addition to all the European and all the American manufacturers of vehicles, the Japanese automobile industry is also represented by Toyota and Nissan. This means that MOSTCo unites approx. 90% of all the automobile production in the world. A large number of suppliers also work with MOSTCo. MOST is on track to becoming the standard for automotive multimedia services.