Radvision chosen by Partner for 3G video trial

November 15, 2004

Radvision announced that its Video Services Platform for 3G Video Telephony and Real-Time Video Streaming has been chosen by Partner Communications operating the Orange network in Israel as a core part of their new advanced 3G video services trial. The Radvision platform provides key video calling and video streaming services between the 3G world and IP-based video devices and multimedia content servers.

Partner selected over a thousand consumers and corporate customers throughout Israel to take part in the trial. The trial users were selected based on their current voice and data usage, which provided a strong indication that they will be able to experience the full effects of 3G in their normal daily usage of mobile services. Those taking part in the trial were provided with a 3G video handset and also given free usage of 3G services such as local video calls and video streaming for the duration of the trial. Partner plans to end its trials and move to full deployment of video-based 3G mobile services, based on the RADVISION platform, later this year.

"3G broadband mobile services have a powerful advantage over earlier mobile networks in their delivery of broadband services over IP and multimedia streaming and communications using the 3G-324M protocol," said Boaz Raviv, General Manager of RADVISION's Service Provider Business Unit. "Partner's pioneering role in trialing advanced 3G services including both video calling and real-time video streaming, is certainly a milestone on the path to achieving critical mass in global 3G users and will show other carriers the way to roll out profitable multimedia services."

The Radvision platform supports the 3G-324M specifications from both the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (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.