RFmondial emphasising the need to update the RF-SE-Series due to ended Flash Player Support

Adobe Flash has been for a very long time the leadership technology for interactive web applications. RFmondial decided to use Adobe Flash of its “DRM/AM Monitoring Receiver Product Line RF-SE”, as at the time of development, it was the only web technology which could support its advanced local and remote user interface.

As open standards like HTML5 have matured over the past years and now provide many of the capabilities and functionalities that plugins pioneered, Adobe has decided to stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020. This includes the support of all major browsers, i.e. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Internet Explorer.

The discontinuity of Flash support affects the RF-SE monitoring receiver as follows:
- Most important: the monitoring functionality (e.g. RF measurements, content verification) of the RF-SE is not affected
- The local touch screen user interface will continue to work as an older browser version is installed locally on the devices
- Major impact: The remote user interface doesn`t work anymore, i.e. no remote access via any major web-browser is possible
- Furthermore, no updates including any security patches can be performed anymore, as RFmondial will not supply a firmware update with discontinued technology.

As the end of Flash had been announced in 2017, RFmondial has developed since then a fresh advanced user interface using state-of-the-art HTML5 technology, which natively runs in all major web-browsers. The development has been based on RFmondial’s long-term experience in the design of graphical measurement interfaces and has already been applied in the DAB monitoring receiver product line RF-DAB. The GUI upgrade will be applied with a completely new firmware installation, which includes other features as well. The major advantages of the upgrade proposal are as follows:
- Most important: Freshly designed HTML5 GUI
- Firmware is based on latest Ubuntu operating system
- Future proof usage of monitoring receiver hardware
- Software update support incl. security patches

RFmondial GmbH
Appelstr. 9a
30167 Hannover
Germany
Dr. Jens Schroeder
schroeder@rfmondial.de
tel.: +49 511 330995 60

RFmondial offers professional products and services for the digital broadcasting industry as well as other industries with the need for innovative hardware and software. Research, development and prototype implementation for transmitter, receiver, and monitoring technology as well as design services for various industries are part of the core business of RFmondial. As a DRM consortium member RFmondial possesses a wide record of experience and know-how in the field of digital audio broadcasting, both DRM-AM and DRM-FM. This includes the experience of the world's first DRM broadcast in the VHF band as well as precise, absolute SFN timing measurements in DAB networks. Furthermore, DAB, DAB+, DMB-Radio, HD-Radio and related radio standards are parts of its innovative portfolio.

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