PacketVideo Announces Partnering Strategy to Deliver Rich Media to the Enterprise Market
SAN DIEGO, Sep. 12, 2001 -- PacketVideo Corp. debuted its global strategy to partner with systems integrators, consultants, value added resellers and enterprise application developers to enable companies to leverage rich media applications throughout their enterprises.

PacketVideo and its partners are dedicated to the development of new enterprise and vertical market applications that utilize the company's standards-based platform. An international network of partners and development tools will enable companies to deploy enterprise applications more quickly, utilizing PacketVideo's technology over a variety of networks, such as today's 802.11 wireless Local Area Networks (LANs), current and future generation mobile networks and Bluetooth.

PacketVideo's technology improves workforce productivity and provides a better customer experience in areas such as public safety/remote surveillance, government, training, hospitality and retail. The company's standards-based approach and strategy of collaborating with high-quality partners, provides companies with a quicker time-to-market for rich media enterprise applications, and ensures interoperability and ease-of-use for their customers.

PacketVideo announced relationships with the following companies today:

  • Hewlett-Packard Company -- PacketVideo is working with HP to provide service delivery and systems integration of PacketVideo's wireless technology for the enterprise markets.

  • SAIC -- A premier enterprise solutions provider, SAIC is a
    PacketVideo preferred provider for systems integration,
    application development and deployment, and multimedia service hosting. SAIC is offering PacketVideo's wireless multimedia delivery platform to its current customer base, including numerous Fortune 500 clients as well as the federal
    government.

  • Stellcom -- A wireless systems integration firm focused on
    providing enterprise-based solutions to enable mobile
    computing, Stellcom will incorporate PacketVideo technology
    into mobile computing solutions for the enterprise community,
    as well as develop applications that will benefit the
    hospitality, retail, energy and healthcare industries.

    "We see wireless multimedia as the evolution of current wireless and Internet technologies, offering a tremendous amount of potential for our customers to utilize applications tailored to their specific requirements and needs," said Bob Young, group senior vice president for SAIC's Global Telecommunications Group. "Collaborating with PacketVideo supports our core business of offering our customers the most advanced technology solutions available to help them be more productive and efficient."

    Examples of viable enterprise applications could include:

  • Live remote surveillance of police car cameras, offering a new degree of security to officers in the field;

  • Enabling security personnel to monitor cameras while
    patrolling, thus freeing them from sitting behind fixed security monitors;

  • Enabling doctors to do virtual "housecalls" to check in on
    their patients from remote locations;

  • The ability to view a training video or corporate meeting
    while in the field;

  • Enabling retail outlets to help consumers make purchase
    decisions by providing in-store handheld devices to view movie
    trailers, listen to CDs, etc.

    These represent just a few of the types of applications PacketVideo's technology can enable.

    "In-Stat expects the business segment (including mobile workers) to be the largest users of wireless data services both today and in the next five years," said Rebecca Diercks, director, wireless research at Cahners In-Stat Group. "In the U.S., we expect the number of business subscribers of mobile wireless data services to grow from 2.8 million at the end of 2000, to more than 32 million by year-end 2005. PacketVideo's strategy to capitalize on this growing market and add value through wireless rich media applications is a smart one. Wireless players in the multimedia space need to be creating an impact on the enterprise space now or risk quickly falling behind of industry pace."

    Enterprise application developers also have access to the recently launched PacketVideo Global Developer Network(TM). This network is an important avenue to link application developers to the technical and marketing resources necessary to successfully define, build, test and commercialize wireless rich media applications on PacketVideo's multimedia platform.

    "PacketVideo has gathered key strategic partners and developers to help foster the growth of wireless rich media applications that will enable enterprises and vertical markets to mobilize existing digital assets and increase productivity, effectiveness and safety," said Fernando Corona, senior vice president of marketing at PacketVideo. "PacketVideo's technology works seamlessly today and by partnering with best-of-breed companies, is perfectly poised to deliver rich media applications that can immediately benefit the enterprise sector."


    For more information, visit www.pv.com.


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