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RADVISION Announces General Availability Of 3G Video Telephony Gateway
February 18, 2003
RADVISION announced the general availability of the viaIP gw-P20/M
Gateway. Designed for service providers looking to capitalize on
their 3G networks by adding value added, high-margin multimedia
services, the viaIP gw-P20/M gateway supports real time bi-directional
streaming of video telephony sessions between 3G-324M enabled cell
phones and PDAs and multiple IP and ISDN-based videoconferencing
systems using the 3G-324M standard for realtime multimedia communications
over WCDMA and CDMA2000 3G networks. The gateway also enables mobile
videophones to utilize additional resources on the IP network including
multipoint conferencing bridges to host three or more parties in
a single session, voice and video gatekeepers, and terminals.
In a related press release, RADVISION today announced that NTT-DoCoMo
has purchased and is using the RADVISION viaIP gw-P20/M gateway
to enable DoCoMo 3G subscribers to hold video telephony sessions
with IP based videoconferencing end points.
This new gateway is the first hardware product to be added to RADVISION’s
family of solutions for the wireless market. The gateway complements
the company’s existing 3G software development toolkit products,
which includes its SIP and 3G-324M Toolkits for 3G equipment and
application development, ideal for developing real-time multimedia-enabled
3G handsets, media servers, and the like.
Expectations for 3G include highspeed wireless access to the Internet,
entertainment, information, e-commerce, interactive application
sharing, real-time media streaming, and videoconferencing. 3G-324M
is the only protocol today that enables 3G service providers to
leverage circuit-switched channels to deliver low-latency, high-bandwidth
throughput - necessary to support delay-sensitive applications such
as wireless video conferencing, video streaming, and multimedia
gaming.
The RADVISION Gateway supports the 3G-324M specifications from
both the 3GPP for WCDMA and 3GPP2 for CDMA2000. These partnership
bodies bring together a number of telecommunications standards groups
to define a set of globally applicable technical specifications
for 3G systems.
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