Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in 140 countries utilize their network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through Ericsson systems. They are one of the few companies worldwide that can offer end-to-end solutions for all major mobile communication standards.

Ericsson has selected Paradial RealTunnel® for Firewall/NAT traversal with their Video Gateway System, a product part of their IMS platform program. Ericsson has also bundled the Ericsson Web Video Phone (formerly known as the Ericsson Video Telephony Client) with the RealTunnel™ client.

Ericsson’s Video Gateway System is much more than just a gateway to other networks. It is a complete solution that handles the end-to-end connection from the mobile to both the Internet and private networks. It is fully IMS compliant / ready.

Real-time video is what distinguishes 3G from 2.5G. Most 3G services are also supported on 2G and 2.5G networks, but with different performance and quality characteristics. Video telephony is new and has obvious benefits that are easily understood by existing mobile users for an enhanced communication experience.

Ericsson’s Video Gateway System provides a complete solution for these scenarios with full end-to-end support for video connections (telephony and content streaming) between 3G phones, the Internet and private networks.

In today’s WCDMA networks, video calls are circuit switched in the radio network, using tunneling to ensure quality during transmission. This means that a 64Kbps ISDN channel is allocated for the call. The Internet however uses packet-switched connections. PC clients for live video and multimedia use Internet standards, such as SIP or H323. Ericsson’s Video Gateway System handles this conversion between circuit and packet-switched connections. It enables video sessions between 3G mobile handsets supporting 3G, 324M and Internet-connected IP clients such as Microsoft NetMeeting or Messenger.

Video between mobiles and the company LAN shows potential for improving efficiency for business users with easy-to-use video conferences and “show-me” style communications (ideal for central support of remote operations).

HP is a company unlike any other. They serve everyone from consumers to small and mid-sized businesses to enterprises to public sector customers with an extensive portfolio of market-leading solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of each customer segment.

HP annual R&D investment of $3.5 billion (USD) fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies. They produce an average of 11 patents a day worldwide. HP Labs provides a central research function for the company which is focused on inventing new technologies to improve our customers' lives, change markets and create business opportunities.

Millions of people around the world use HP technology every day. HP is:

• the largest consumer IT company
• the world's largest SMB IT company
• a leading enterprise IT company

Their strategy is to offer products, services and solutions that are high tech, low cost and deliver the best customer experience. The HP team of 150,000 employees does business in more than 170 countries.

VQ Conferencing (VQ) is a desktop video conferencing solution that integrates with existing infrastructure (including Codian MCU’s and LifeSize room systems) to deliver a video conferencing solution providing high quality, point to point and conference calls from a simple, presence enabled, user interface.

VQ contains additional functionality such as interactive video streaming which allows video clips to be streamed into calls. Video calls can also be recorded.

VQ can be used on closed corporate networks or, when the integrated firewall traversal is enabled, from almost IP enabled location (home, office, hotel, customer site etc).

VQ Communications Ltd supplies:

• VQ Desktop Conferencing Solution as a service or as a product sale
• Conferencing components (MCUs, Firewall Traversal, SIP Servers, Gatekeepers, Data Collaboration Servers and Video Clients)
• Consulting (leverage our expertise in supplying premier financial institutions in London)
• Custom Projects (Customized VQ; conferencing automation, presence management for room systems)

NGC Systems Sdn Bhd creates innovative Next Generation Network (NGN) and Converged Communication technology and solutions for telecommunication service providers, mobile carrier and large enterprises.
Based in Technology Park Malaysia, Malaysia’s R&D hub, their innovations are earmarked by the following features:

• excellent interoperability,
• reliable operational robustness,
• immense scalability,
• accurate management reporting functions,
• ease of deployment and;
• seamless integration with various communication providers and vendors.

These innovations are branded under the Genico™ banner and specifically engineered to have a lower cost-of-ownership, with a shorter return-on-investment period critical for capital expenditure-intensive industries such as telecommunication and service providers. NGC Systems activities have been acknowledged by the Malaysian Government with its prestigious MSC status in 2002.

NGC Systems Sdn Bhd is a wholly owned subsidiary of DVM Technology Bhd listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange.