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Cannes, France, February 10, 2005 - PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc. (pvNS), a wholly owned subsidiary
of Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA), today announced
that it will be demonstrating a broad suite of video
and audio mobile media applications at 3GSM 2005 (Hall
4, Stand L25).
"As
evidenced by the growing number of content and media
companies attending 3GSM this year, the demand for
mobile media has surged over the last 12 months. As
a result so has the need for mobile media enabling
solutions. Alcatel's PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc.
is presenting, along with several of its customers
and partners, a wide range of services including DRM
and mobile commerce tools through to exciting new
mobile music, video home monitoring and live TV services,"
says Patrick Parodi, SVP of Sales and Marketing, Alcatel's
PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc.
"Our
3GPP compliant approach as well as our passionate
focus on improving the mobile user experience with
such enhancements as progressive download and bandwidth
adaptation has helped us attract the leaders in mobile
media for whom we have proudly delivered tangible
business and operational benefits," concluded
Parodi.
Alcatel's
PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc. will be demonstrating
at 3GSM applications developed by:
- BeepScience (Norway)
Beep Science and Alcatel's PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc.
have successfully tested the interoperability of
Beep Science's Rich Media DRM solution with the
Alcatel pvServer. Beep Science's DRM solution which
is based on the upcoming version 2 of the OMA DRM
standard. This integrated DRM and MobileMedia server
solution demonstrates how content revenues can be
secured without affecting the user experience.
- Cinema Electric (USA)
CinemaElectric is a world leader in producing global,
mobile multimedia content for next-generation personal
wireless devices. CinemaElectric provides mobile
video downloads under the PocketCinema brand.
The company produces six lifestyle categories of
multimedia product, which are refreshed daily and
are customized for popular mobile terminals.
- EarthCam (USA)
EarthCam.com has the leading network of live webcams
and offers the most comprehensive search engine
for world-wide webcams. EarthCam provides complete
infrastructure services to manage, host and maintain
live streaming video camera systems for its consumer
and corporate clients. EarthCam will provide access
through the Alcatel pvServer to livecams in NY Times
Square and at London's Big Ben.
- InfoSpace Mobile (USA)
InfoSpace Mobile is a leading provider and publisher
of mobile content and applications that make it
possible for media companies and content brands
to reach a wide audience of wireless subscribers
with compelling content and marketing promotions.
InfoSpace Mobile will use Alcatel pvNS technology
to demonstrate, mobile video content from Lafflink,
the original creator of the stand up-comedy genre
of late night TV and the owner of the world's largest
video library of such content.
- Medialive (France)
Medialive develops and provides digital content
protection technologies for audio and video content.
Medialive innovative concept uses patented technologies
to secure the transmission and storage of unlimited
audio/video streams and downloads over any telecommunication
network. Medialive is demonstrating DRM protected
video download, where encrypted content is streamed
using pvServer to the phone along with a key which
is used to decrypt and play the video.
- Orange (France)
Orange World Video Services delivers the best in
mobile video, mobile music and live content services.
The scalable Alcatel pvNS powered Orange Video Platform
allows Orange customers to stream, download and
progressively download video and audio content on
GPRS, EDGE and 3G networks. The services showcased
include: live video-blogs (streamed through a 3G
camera phone) and mobile security, accessing a web
cam connected to a PC in the home.
- Peoples (China)
China Resources Peoples Telephone Company Limited
is one of the primary providers of mobile voice
and data communications services in Hong Kong. Operating
under the brand name "PEOPLES", the company
will present its home surveillance service, through
which consumers have a choice of accessing home
security video through a PC or by mobile phone.
- Perseus Wireless (USA)
The company's first product to market is the PerseusPhone
for Mobile Access to Security Video. PerseusPhone
works with existing security cameras, CCTV systems
and DVRs to extend their reach to wherever you are!
The Perseus security demonstration will be powered
by pvServer.
- Scanbuy (USA)
Users have the ability to utilize Scanbuy's Optical
Intelligence technology to read barcodes with their
camera phone. Just use the camera phone to point
at a barcode and capture the code, the data is then
read and decoded automatically launching relevant
content. This could be a short trailer for a film,
with the barcode attached to the DVD or a poster
in a video store. The video content is enabled by
pvServer.
- Sony Network Services (Austria)
Sony Network Services will show StreamMan the world's
first personal mobile music service. Offering a
wide range of music from major and independent record
labels, StreamMan is based on the high-quality 3GPP
standard AAC audio format and was developed by Sony
Network Services with support from pvNS. StreamMan
is designed as a mobile entertainment application
that mobile phone operators can provide for their
customers over GPRS and 3G/UMTS networks.
- Streamezzo (France)
Streamezzo offers operators, content providers and
device manufacturers a complete software suite for
creating, publishing, and rendering of interactive
and multimedia services for mobile. The rich media
demonstration of streamed and progressively downloaded
audio and video content is empowered by Streamezzo's
and pvServer. The solution is hosted by Alcatel's
Mobile Kiosk.
- Surelabs (Australia)
Surelabs has developed a new range of security solutions
for all segments - from the home user to the enterprise
market. It allows users to attach several local
cameras to a PC, providing simultaneous video streams
for monitoring purposes using Surelabs Sensitec
motion detection technology. Users can be alerted
via e-mail/mobile phone whenever intrusions are
detected. The solution uses Alcatel pvNS Transcoding
Services Framework for live streaming.
- Yacast (France)
YACAST provides online streaming and content delivery
services to radio and TV companies. Yacast will
demonstrate the live streaming of radio services
to mobile phones using Alcatel pvServer.
- 123 Multimedia (France)
123Multimedia has achieved remarkable success as
a leading European mobile content provider by offering
WAP, i-mode and Java-based mobile Internet content
services. Working with Alcatel's PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc., 123 Multimedia will be demonstrating
content from their LIVE Tchatche TV channel on 2.5G
and 3G devices.
About
Alcatel
Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication
carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises
for delivery of voice, data and video applications
to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its
leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks,
applications and services, to help its partners and
customers build a user-centric broadband world. With
sales of EURO 12.3 billion in 2004, Alcatel operates
in more than 130 countries. For more information,
visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com
About
Alcatel's PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc.
PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary
of Alcatel, was previously a division of PacketVideo,
a company founded in 1998 which is recognized as the
world's premier independent provider of mobilemedia
software. PacketVideo Network Solutions, Inc. designs and
develops network-based software solutions to facilitate
the distribution of multimedia-based communications,
offering the pvServer product line of multimedia
distribution software. pvServer has been through
rigorous testing, leading to the commercial launch
by over a dozen carriers, content providers and ASPs
worldwide.
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