A Next-Generation Web-to-Mobile Transcoding Server Solution that Leverages the NetFront Browser Engine, the World’s Browsing Standard

NetFront™ Transcoder is an advanced web-to-mobile transcoding server solution that delivers a complete Internet browsing experience to users of mobile devices. NetFront Transcoder leverages ACCESS’ NetFront™ Browser engine to pre-render and reformat standard web pages designed for display on personal computers so they can be readily viewed on mobile devices.

NetFront Transcoder exemplifies ACCESS’ commitment to bring the Internet to mobile devices. NetFront technologies, including NetFront Transcoder and NetFront Browser, have been deployed in over 700 million devices around the world, including mobile phones, digital TVs, set-top boxes, mobile handhelds, game consoles, automobile navigation systems and many others.

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NetFront Transcoder

Transcoding Internet Sites for Use by Mobile Devices
NetFront™ Transcoder Mobile Profile introduces a server solution that delivers advanced web-to-mobile content conversion technologies. NetFront Transcoder includes automatic conversion functions as well as editing tools that enable website producers to easily repurpose their sites for mobile devices.

Advantages | NetFront Transcoder

Automatic Conversion
NetFront Transcoder automatically converts standard web pages for display on mobile devices. It uses the NetFront Browser engine to parse web page content blocks and analyze their structure to determine the optimum layout for display on mobile devices. NetFront Transcoder can interpret JavaScript™, CSS and Flash, making it possible to convert rich web content in real time. In addition, NetFront Transcoder can recognize the screen size, supported formats, and memory capacity of individual devices and can thus optimize content for any type of mobile device.

Easy-to-Use Editing Tools
After an automatic conversion, NetFront Transcoder's visual editing tools make it easy to edit the mobile content generated, if the editor so desires. A variety of editing operations can be carried out with drag-and-drop simplicity, including the reconfiguration of parsed content blocks and the replacement of text with images to improve user interaction. NetFront Transcoder's editing tools are so intuitive that even a non-programmer can use them.

Linking with External Systems
With an extensive set of functionalities, NetFront Transcoder's editing tools also make it easy to link site content to external systems such as advertisement services.

Supports a Range of Internet Sites
NetFront Transcoder formats and converts web content NetFront designed for a personal computer into a format more appropriate for mobile devices, including script processing and session and cookie management.

NetFront Transcoder allows users to access Internet search sites, check web mail, access shopping sites, read weblogs, etc. In other words, users can access the Internet sites that they usually access with their personal computers, from mobile devices.

*Depending on the capabilities of the mobile device, some sites may not display completely or some services may not be available..

Search Engine	Shopping Site	Weblog Site

Flexible System Configuration
NetFront Transcoder implements a scalable and flexible architecture, which can be configured to address the sizing requirements for web sites. .

• High Load Operation
  As shown in the figure below, it is possible to internetwork the load balancer and content conversion server to provide increased scalability. In case of high load operations, processing of HTTP requests can be distributed across several content conversion servers using a load balancer. Content conversion servers can be expanded in parallel to provide greater flexibility as traffic load increases.
• Redundancy
  As shown in the figure below, NetFront Transcoder is able to support web sites requiring high availability by internetworking with the redundancy engine.
  
  

Example: High Load with Redundancy Configuration