What You'll Find Here
From the Reference Tools to your products: see them demonstrated, tested at plugfests, and onboard them. To run the tools yourself, see the Tutorials.
Why It Matters
Making the value proposition tangible to the industry — through interoperability, early testing and plugfests.
Make value proposition tangible to the industry
Working demonstrations that show what a specification enables, not just what it says on paper.
Interoperability through early testing and plugfests
Shared reference code means plugfests test real interoperability from day one, instead of every participant starting from scratch.
Supporting application development and trials
Reference tools and testbeds that let application developers build and trial real products on top of proven implementations.
Specifications to code. Code to deployments.
Out in the field
End-to-end demos and showcases at industry events and trials — user-facing demonstrations that abstract technical complexity, promoting and demonstrating value, not just specs.
5G Broadcast Plugfest 2026 — hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin.
World's first public demo of 5G Media Streaming and 5G Broadcast, on the show floor.
Demos
Recordings of plugfest and trade-show demos
Emergency Alerts over 5G Broadcast at FOKUS Media Web Symposium 2024
5G Broadcast at FOKUS Media Web Symposium 2024
5G Media Streaming at FOKUS Media Web Symposium 2024
5G Media Streaming at IBC 2025
Emergency Alerts over 5G Broadcast embedded in DVB-T2 at IBC 2025
XR Media with MPEG-I Scene Description at IBC 2025
V3C Immersive Platform at IBC 2025
Plugfests
Multi-vendor interoperability events where 5G-MAG reference code is tested side by side with other implementations.
Assets
What you can onboard into your product, project by project. Coming soon.
Content Delivery and Streaming
Reference implementations for delivering and streaming media over broadband networks.
Real-Time Communications (RTC)
Reference implementations for interactive, low-latency, real-time media communication.
Broadcast
Reference implementations of LTE-based 5G Broadcast for TV, radio and emergency alerts.
Point-to-Multipoint Communication
Reference implementations of native multicast delivery over 5G.
Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)
Reference implementations for content delivery over satellite and HAPS non-terrestrial networks.
Immersive Media
Reference implementations of MPEG scene-description, avatar and volumetric-video standards.
Connected Media Production
Reference implementations of CAMARA telco network APIs for connected production.
Shared Infrastructure
Shared infrastructure and reference-consumer repositories other Reference Tools projects build on or exercise.
Testbeds
Testbeds and evaluation frameworks.
Join the Effort
Help shape what connected media looks like next and scale your projects with the industry.