PacketVideo Corp. scored a major deal today with Siemens Information and Communication Mobile, which will resell the streaming media company’s MPEG-4 technology platform to mobile operators. The deal is another in a long string of significant sales for PacketVideo.
“It’s a further endorsement of our standards base,” said Nick Karter, vice president of channel business development for the company. Karter said the 3G Partnership Project-numbers one and two-also endorsed PacketVideo’s streaming video technology.
Under the Siemens agreement, the network and device provider will integrate PacketVideo’s multimedia platform into its Open Mobile Internet Platform. The companies said the technology will demonstrate the type of advanced services that are possible over General Packet Radio Service and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System networks.
Further backing for the technology comes from the 20 wireless carriers that are trialing PacketVideo’s technology over Siemens’ networks across the globe.
“We get global distribution” from the Siemens deal, Karter said.
Today’s announcement comes after an extensive set of trials between PacketVideo and Siemens over GPRS and UMTS networks. Karter said Siemens has had successful experience with the wireless Web and is another good partner for PacketVideo.
In the past few months, PacketVideo has scored a variety of high-profile deals and sales. German carrier T-Mobile agreed to trial the company’s technology over its GPRS network; electronics manufacturer Sharp Corp. said it would integrate PacketVideo’s technology into its new Linux-based personal digital assistant; and Nortel Networks Corp. said it would integrate the company’s technology with its UMTS application and services framework.
PacketVideo’s technology includes encoding, transmission and decoding software products, which the company said can deliver audio, video, branded content and applications for wireless devices. The company’s suite of technology includes PVAuthor, PVServer and PVPlayer components. The components allow designers to encode MPEG-4-compliant video and audio, operators to create a commercial, billable service, and a player that supports 384 kbps for enhanced video delivery, PacketVideo said.
