News release

HP announces new offerings in Asia Pacific to enable next-generation mobile services for telecom providers

Opens Real-time Multimedia Services Experience Center in China; Introduces HP OpenCall Media Platform Video

Shanghai, Jan. 19, 2006

HP today announced the opening of a new facility in Shanghai, China to help operators advance toward the next generation of mobile services, known as Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services. The Experience Centre in China is the third such centre set globally and the first in Asia Pacific, after the opening of HP IMS Experience Centers in Grenoble, France and Richardson, Texas in February 2005.

HP also announced the HP OpenCall Media Platform (OCMP) Video for Asia Pacific operators to optimize technology asset usage by sharing resources among different applications, while still enabling flexibility and scalability. It allows both service providers and developers to adapt and react more quickly to changing end-user requirements.

"With extensive IT and telecom expertise, HP is in a unique position to help our telecom customers in Asia Pacific evolve towards IP-based technologies," said Laurent Valluy, Director, Asia-Pacific & Japan Regional Operations HP OpenCall Business Unit. "Few, if any, companies can match HP's array of software, service-oriented architectures, carrier-grade platforms, end-user devices, partners and global integration services in the telecom space. The announcements today will extend this long telecom heritage that HP offers its customers."

"Experience Centers" to test next-generation IMS mobile services

The HP IMS Experience Centers are designed to help operators develop a smooth, evolutionary path from existing networks to an all IP-based IMS network. At both facilities, HP provides operators a comprehensive, hands-on environment for IMS solution testing, proof of concept, and customer pilots, as well as business and market analysis for IMS services. Operators can learn how to reduce the complexity of IMS services interaction, simplify network and services management, and ultimately, reduce costs and accelerate time to market.

In addition to HP OpenCall software and demonstration services, the HP IMS Experience Centers also make available to operators through the HP-Intel Solution Centers; IMS network elements and demonstration services from HP partners; HP and partner operation and business support system (OSS and BSS) solutions; and HP and HP partner consumer products such as handsets, PDAs, wireless notebooks, and PCs.

The HP Service Delivery Platform (SDP) is the recommended blueprint for developing and deploying IMS services. Within the HP SDP, the core of HP IMS offerings is an extensive suite of HP OpenCall software.

HP OCMP Video to enrich IMS experience

The OpenCall Media Platform Video product provides rich options for application interfaces, media processing and signaling, coupled with a robust media and call control execution environment that efficiently allocates multimedia processing resources as needed during call processing in order to support next-generation services and network architectures.

By executing digital signal processing in a software environment, the OpenCall Media Platform Video allows both service providers and developers to avoid delays usually associated with the development of new hardware-based DSP processors (e.g., when introducing a new video codec).

To enable a choice of applications, multimedia capabilities in the HP OpenCall Media Platform Video product are supported via standard programming interfaces like VoiceXML and CCXML.

Its rich feature set, service creation environment, and the overall HP business approach enable HP partners and customers to easily develop new market propositions to increase revenue and customer loyalty to their offerings. Both horizontal service offers for a broad market and more vertically focused propositions can be developed.

IMS to provide new mobile experience — and lower cost for operators

The IMS architecture, based on industry-defined standards, enables multiple mobile services to be linked together in real time, so that subscribers will be able to use voice, data, and multimedia applications in a single call or session.

For example, a mobile subscriber might retrieve a voice- or e-mail about an auto for sale, call a friend about the auto, take a photo and send it to the friend, and provide the friend with turn-by-turn driving directions to the auto dealership (based on a location-aware service) – all in one integrated session that is simple and easy for the subscriber. IMS services are expected to be available in the next two to three years.

As people increasingly adopt the mobile lifestyle, IMS services promise to become a significant new source of revenue for operators. Today, operators around the world are planning to evolve their current network and operations infrastructure to include open, flexible IMS technologies.

Additional information on is available at http://h20208.www2.hp.com/opencall/ims/.

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