RADVISION'S Video Gateway Joins Alcatel's 3G/UMTS Product Portfolio
February 21, 2003
Alcatel and RADVISION, providers of in video telephony infrastructure
solutions, announced its collaboration to add RADVISION's new viaIP
gw-P20/M Gateway into its already extensive portfolio of solutions
for the 3G/UMTS marketplace.
Designed for service providers looking to capitalize on their 3G/UMTS
networks by offering differentiated, high-margin multimedia services,
the RADVISION viaIP gw-P20/M gateway supports real time video telephony
sessions between 3G-324M enabled cell phones/PDAs and multiple IP
and ISDN-based videoconferencing systems. The system is based on
the 3G-324M standard for real-time multimedia communications over
WCDMA and CDMA2000 3G/UMTS networks.
This partnership is a significant milestone in the industry and
at this year's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, Alcatel and RADVISION
demonstrated, for the first time, a live 3G/UMTS network with video
telephony services between 3G/UMTS videophones and traditional IP-based
videoconferencing devices.
The Alcatel Video Telephony Solution extends basic mobile-to-mobile
video telephony services offered by a 3G/UMTS technology. This new
solution helps mobile operators launch their 3G/UMTS network by
offering them a flagship 3G-only service that will attract end users
and generate significant revenues, enabling UMTS videophones to
call or receive calls from other IP videophones already deployed.
Business users can also participate in videoconferences using their
UMTS videophone, making video telephony attractive to business users
and corporate customers.
The solution includes the Alcatel 5020 Softswitch acting as an
H.323 gatekeeper, which manages the fixed IP videophones or PCs
with an embedded Webcam and a broadband connection to the Internet
(xDSL, cable modem or corporate).
"Alcatel is happy to include RADVISION's gateway in order to match
mobile network operators needs for attractive services in order
to leverage the costly investment in 3G/UMTS infrastructure with
a powerful application that is unique to 3G. It is thus a significant
step to persuade end users to switch to 3G/UMTS technology" declared
Marc Rouanne, Chief Operating Officer of Alcatel's Mobile Communications
Group.
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