CCETT or Centre commun d'études de télévision et télécommunications (''Centre for the Study of Television broadcasting and Telecommunication'' or ''Common Study Center of Telediffusion and Telecommunication'') was a research centre created in

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

(

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) in 1972 jointly by the

Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française The (; ORTF; , or French Radio and Television Broadcasting Office) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1975, with providing public radio and television in France. All programming, especially news broadcasts, were under strict cont ...

(ORTF) (later Télédiffusion de France) and Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (CNET) (Direction Générale des Télécommunications, part of the French Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) for development of new techniques for processing, transmission and distribution of audiovisual signals. CCETT became part of France Télécom R&D, the research and development division of France Télécom in 1998. This division was derived from different ancient entities, such as CNET (the research and development centre of France Telecom, created in 1944), the CCETT, as well as other entities. Since 2007, France Telecom R&D is also known as '' Orange Labs'', a global network of R&D entities. CCETT/France Télécom R&D contributed to various international standards, such as

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/ IEC

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and

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standards or DAB and DVB standards. CCETT, IRT and

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developed a digital audio two-channel compression system known as Musicam or MPEG Audio Layer II (

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in Engineering 2000).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Centre commun d'etudes de television et telecommunications History of telecommunications in France History of Rennes Research institutes in France 1972 establishments in France

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