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Droplet Technology Acquires Sipcall
Friday, December 05, 2008
Company will leverage SIP in mobile video services for consumers worldwide
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Droplet Technology, Inc. today
announced that it has acquired privately-held Sipcall, a developer of
innovative Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based mobile Voice-over-IP (VoIP)
services for consumers worldwide. Christian Rees, Sipcall's President and
Founder, has joined Droplet as Director of Service Platforms. Financial
details of the deal were not announced.
In April 2008, Sipcall launched "Hipsip(R)," a mobile data service that
allows users to make carrier-friendly VoIP calls worldwide from any mobile
phone's web browser, using only their local mobile calling plan. Droplet has
already begun integration of the Sipcall SIP infrastructure into Droplet's
interactive mobile video service platform.
In order to meet consumer and enterprise demand for higher quality
interactive video across a wider range of devices and networks, communication
service providers worldwide have made significant new investments in IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network infrastructure. SIP is the Internet-derived
standard used for setting up IMS calls and multimedia streaming sessions over
Internet protocol (IP) networks. Working in close collaboration with leading
mobile operators, Droplet is the first company to combine state-of-the-art
all-software Internet video and voice technologies with an industry-standard
IMS framework to enable interactive mobile video services that can run on
virtually any camera-enabled 2.5G or 3G handset, as well as on any PC with a
webcam.
"With IMS, Droplet's interactive mobile video services can, for the first
time, be rolled out to users independent of the specific architecture of a
wireless or wired network," commented John Ralston, Droplet's President and
CEO. "The integration of Sipcall's SIP functionality into Droplet's video
service platform further demonstrates our commitment to supporting the IMS
roadmap of major operators, and also allows us to launch direct-to-subscriber
mobile video services with carrier-class quality of service (QoS)
capabilities."
About Droplet (http://www.droplet-tech.com)
Leveraging the company's unique and patented innovations in video
processing and service platforms, Droplet partners with mobile operators,
Internet portals, and device/service providers to enhance mobile video
capabilities in communications services, business collaboration,
entertainment, and social networking. Droplet is headquartered in Menlo Park,
CA, with key outsourced software engineering teams, product development teams,
and service deployment partnerships in the US, Europe, and Asia.
SOURCE Droplet Technology, Inc.
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