Helsinki - August 14, 2006
Movial, the company providing the ease-of-use in IP communication, announced today that Telefonica is deploying its Connect clients for desktop and PocketPC devices. Telefonica will use the clients for Telefonica’s VoIP services, offering the best consistent converged IP communication experience to its customers across devices. The services are deployed over the Ericsson infrastructure, and are one of the first IMS deployments delivering VoIP services to the residential and SME markets.
Demonstrating Movial’s continuous success in providing converged IP communication clients, Telefonica will offer its subscribers a branded version of the Connect clients for VoIP and Video Telephony services. In addition, calls to and from PSTN as well as Video Calls to 3G mobile devices further enhance the converged user experience.
“We are pleased to see that an industry leader such as Telefonica has realized the benefit of our Connect clients, and are launching these across desktop and mobile devices”, says Victor Donselaar, Unit Manager, Movial. This is another recognition by a leading operator of the power of the user experience and rich services that our products provide across devices
The Movial Connect product family consists of an IMS application framework, and off-the-shelve client applications on the broadest range of PC, Mobile, and Consumer Electronics devices in the industry. A wide range of services can be deployed such as Presence, Instant Messaging, Group List Management, Multimedia Messaging, Push-to-Video, Music and Video Sharing, VoIP and Video Telephony. With SDK's and a unique user interface, Movial Connect clients offer seamless branded user experience of these services across devices.
Movial Connect PC and PocketPC clients are based on Global IP sound’s VoiceEngine, a comprehensive, packaged VoIP solution created specifically for PC and mobile applications. VoiceEngine is designed to produce the best quality sound possible in Internet telephony. The solution integrates GIPS SoundWare components into a highly optimized, high-level API. These components include GIPS NetEQ, which is a patented jitter-buffer and error concealment module, GIPS family of codecs, and GIPS Voice Quality Enhancement suite of echo cancellation and noise suppression technology. Overall, VoiceEngine simplifies a host of voice-related tasks, including the integration of speech codecs, communication with sound cards, real-time performance, and RTP protocol handling.
Movial provides IP communication software, embedded Linux engineering and user experience services to device manufacturers and operators. Software developed by us is easy-to-use and helps customers launch products to market in shorter time. The Connect product suite enables creation of converged IMS communication services. Movial’s deep understanding of open technologies and commitment to our customers have been recognized by Nokia, HP, Orange and Telefonica. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Movial was founded in 2001 and employs over 100 employees.
Telefónica is one of the world's top telecommunications companies.
Telefónica is the leading operator in the Spanish and Portuguese
speaking markets, with access to more than 550 millions potential
clients, and the sixth largest operator in the world in terms of market
capitalization. Its activities are centered mainly on the provision of
fixed and mobile telephony services, having broadband as a key tool for
the development of both businesses. www.telefonica.es
Founded in 1999, Global IP Sound develops embedded voice processing technologies for real-time communications over packet networks. GIPS SoundWare™ provides better than PSTN voice quality and fidelity in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss. Global IP Sound’s world-renowned speech processing and IP telephony experts deliver these solutions to applications developers, gateway and chip manufacturers. Companies using GIPS SoundWare™ products include Nortel Networks, Skype, WebEx, Yahoo!, AOL, EarthLink and other key players in the VoIP market. Global IP Sound is a member of the Intel® PCA Developer Network, the Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partners and Texas Instruments’ third party developer network. Global IP Sound has headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Stockholm, Hong Kong and Boston. More information is available at www.globalipsound.com