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North Africa Com 2008 – Cairo, 14-15 October

World’s Most Cost-effective Remote Communications Solution Available for North Africa

On-demand use of Satellite Bandwidth and Local Connectivity Together Dramatically Reduce Remote Community Transmission Costs

Leading provider of cost cutting solutions for wireless and satellite service providers, Altobridge, will be at North Africa’s largest telecommunications event, North AfricaCom in Cairo, from 14-15 October, highlighting its Local Connectivity and Split-BSC Architecture solutions; remote communications technologies with major cost-cutting implications for the delivery of profitable voice and data services to small, remote domestic and enterprise communities throughout North Africa.
 
The company’s Remote Communities Communications solution utilises two of Altobridge’s breakthrough technologies. Its unique Split-BSC Architecture frees up vital capacity by restricting the use of expensive satellite bandwidth, only using it ‘On-Demand’ instead of ‘Always-On’ - the most efficient use of satellite bandwidth of any system available. The company’s Local Connectivity solution then keeps all local calls local, which removes further transmission costs incurred if local calls are unnecessarily backhauled.
 
At North AfricaCom, Altobridge’s VP Wireless Solutions, Janne Hazell, will be presenting an important paper entitled: “Local Connectivity – the key to cost-effective connectivity for mobile operators”, which illustrates these two technological breakthroughs in Local Connectivity and On-demand use of satellite bandwidth, and how they combine to deliver the world’s most cost-effective communications solution for remote communities.
 
Janne Hazell said, “Our Split-BSC Architecture creates a unique, ‘on-demand’ solution, which we consider to be the most operationally efficient on the market today. Then, our Local Connectivity solution keeps local traffic local, removing the costs of traffic being backhauled unnecessarily across the network and delivering one of the most significant breakthroughs in eliminating the costs associated with remote community communications.
 
“Combined, these two technologies provide mobile operators throughout the North African region, with the opportunity to deliver profitable services that meet their universal communications licensing obligations. New revenues are now possible from small communities of between 50 and 500 subscribers,” Hazell concluded.
 
Hazell’s paper looks at the challenges faced by operators in remote regions throughout North Africa, including the high cost of transmission to small, isolated communities, and outlines the comparative savings that can be expected when using a standard 1 TRX IP GSM over VSAT installation versus the use of the optimized Altobridge solution. With annual savings per site potentially running into tens of thousands of dollars, operators are now able to provide profitable services to even the smallest, isolated populations.

14-10-08 • Headquartered at Kerry Technology Park, Ireland and with regional offices in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, USA and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Altobridge is a leading provider of telecommunications solutions that cut the cost of communications to/from and between wireless devices. The company’s patented Split-BSC Architecture (Access Management Gateway Platform) and Local Connectivity Platform cut backhaul costs to/from base station sites as well as providing local call switching at the base station site. These solutions have been successfully tested and deployed in wireless telecommunications networks as well as the following vertical markets: Remote Community/Enterprise, Aeronautical, Maritime, Secure and Emergency/First Responder wireless communication.

Altobridge licenses its software to leading vendors and operators and can also provide  fully managed services to mobile operators. Wireless operator clients include: Maxis (Remote Community), Mobicom (Remote Community), AeroMobile (Aeronautical GSM), Blue Ocean Wireless (Maritime GSM).  Vendor clients include: Ericsson (Local Connectivity).

Telecom markets - Mongolia

Altobridge wins three-year, fully-managed rural GSM contract with Mongolia’s MobiCom Corporation

Altobridge has won a three-year, fully managed services contract with leading Mongolian mobile communications provider, MobiCom Corporation.

The contract is for the provision of communications across rural Mongolia using Altobridge’s unique GSM architecture, which enables operators to dramatically cut the costs of delivering communication services.

Won in the face of competition from world leading vendors, the contract will see Altobridge’s Access Manager Gateway (AMG) architecture used to provide cost-effective personal mobile communications in support of subscriber bases as low as 100, in village, enterprise and government border-post scenarios.

The Altobridge architecture is the most cost-effective technology for delivering rural GSM services available in the industry today and will enable MobiCom to reach out to isolated regions with up-to-date mobile communications, where once such service provision would not have been profitable.

Munkhbold Udval, Director Research and Development Center, MobiCom Corporation, said, “We selected the Altobridge technology because it enables us to achieve our aims in delivering viable, much-needed communications to isolated communities and enterprise installations, at the same time making considerable savings. Previously, costs have been too high and the Altobridge technology enables us to reduce these costs considerably without compromising service quality in any way. We are delighted with this agreement.”

Janne Hazell, General Manager Wireless Systems, Altobridge, and responsible for the MobiCom win, explains, “This deal demonstrates Altobridge’s expertise in delivering cost cutting communications for applications anywhere in the world. We are very pleased that Mobicom has recognised that our patented solution is the best and most cost-effective technology the industry has to offer for delivering mobile communications to small, remote communities.”

The first systems have been shipped during March 2008 and all are expected to be deployed before the end of the year.

Source: Altobridge (9-4-08) • Headquartered at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, MobiCom is the first cellular telephone service operator in Mongolia, operated since 18th March 1996 as a Mongolian-Japanese joint venture. Currently,  MobiCom Corporation provides a wide range of services including GSM cellular communications, international communications, Internet and satellite communications, wireless local loop and other services to both corporate and consumer markets.

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Multimedia delivery arena

Dilithium's ViVAS Flash Enables Web to 3G Mobile Calls

Dilithium today announced ViVAS Flash to empower carriers to deliver two-way video calling services between web browsers and 3G mobile devices. With ViVAS Flash, carriers can deploy value-added video services across converged networks to satisfy growing consumer demand for high quality communications experiences on any device over any network.

Telecommunications leaders all over the world have deployed video services based on Dilithium's ViVAS platform that provides reliable, real-time streaming of video content to and from mobile wireless devices, broadband and SIP clients. With the ViVAS Flash add-on module, carriers can now easily expand their services to offer subscribers branded video communications from either their PC or mobile device.

Unlike traditional services that require consumers to download software, ViVAS Flash-powered video requires nothing to get started besides a web or mobile browser. It takes advantage of Adobe Flash, the recognized standard for interactive, rich content with video, graphics and animation, which is installed on over 98% of Internet-enabled desktops and a wide range of mobile devices.

A number of companies have already implemented Dilithium's ViVAS Flash solution to offer services including: 

• Bi-directional web browser to 3G mobile video calls;
• Web-based video services, including conferencing and surveillance;
• Game changing new features on social networks such as 'call me now' or video chat.

"As 3G mobile customers demand more sophisticated communication applications, operators and service providers must innovate in order to attract new subscribers, reduce churn and drive greater revenue," said Paul Zuber, CEO of Dilithium Networks. "Dilithium's ViVAS Flash will help them meet this pent-up demand, delivering unique, high quality video services to whatever Internet-connected device the consumer prefers."

ViVAS Flash is the latest addition to the Dilithium ViVAS platform. ViVAS is a 3G video and IMS-ready hardware and software solution that provides reliable, real-time streaming of video content to and from mobile wireless devices, broadband, and SIP clients. Several customizable applications are available for immediate deployment, allowing operators, content providers, and aggregators to introduce revenue generating interactive video solutions. ViVAS Flash is available now.

Dilithium is the global leader in high-quality multimedia delivery over mobile and broadband networks to any device. Dilithium provides the most comprehensive and innovative mobile video solutions, with unmatched breadth of deployments in 50 countries reaching 800 million subscribers. Dilithium pioneered 3G video communications and our technologies are deployed by the major network operators, content owners, aggregators and equipment providers.

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