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The MOST Cooperation will demonstrate how MOST can be used as an automotive Ethernet physical layer at the MOST Forum exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany. The multimedia demonstration shows MOST at 150 Mbps bandwidth with high-speed Ethernet packet transport, multi-channel video streaming from HDD as well as isochronous streaming of HDTV and SDTV. The MOST based transport of Ethernet data traffic will be demonstrated at the booth on September 30, 2008, at the Liederhalle Cultural & Congress Center.

In addition to higher bandwidth, MOST150 features an isochronous transport mechanism to support extensive video applications, as well as an Ethernet channel for efficient seamless transport of IP-based packet data. The Ethernet channel can transport unmodified Ethernet frames as specified by IEEE 802.3. This enables software stacks and applications from the consumer and IT domain, where the speed of innovation is much faster, to be seamlessly migrated into the car. TCP/IP stacks or protocols that use TCP/IP can communicate via MOST without modification. Thus, the new generation of MOST provides an automotive-ready physical layer for Ethernet in the car. MOST Specification Rev. 3.0 supports both conventional 16 bit addressing as well as 48 bit addressing using IEEE MAC addresses.