New 3G Wireless Video Streaming Gateway

Fujitsu Limited and NMS Communications announced that they have jointly developed a wireless video gateway system for distributing multimedia content from the Internet to handsets supporting the IMT-2000 third-generation mobile communications protocol.

Picture shows NMS Voice over IP Solution and setup. Fujitsu's new system, called GeoServe SDS, can deliver a live or stored audio and video stream to multiple 3G mobile handsets (either 3GPP or 3G-324M compliant) simultaneously. The system opens up many possibilities for new mobile solutions that increase carrier revenues. Content applications can encompass a wide range of personal or business uses, from news and entertainment delivery to accessing company data, live security monitoring, and more.

In developing GeoServe SDS, Fujitsu incorporated NMS' Convergence Generation media streaming platform into Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER server, and both companies developed application software. In addition, Fujitsu used its own streaming distribution software for the streaming system that ties in with the gateway system. The software distributes live or archived media over the network and provides large-scale, stable streaming capability and excellent real-time performance.

NTT DoCoMo is using the new gateway system for its pathbreaking FOMA video-streaming service, called V-Live. This service transmits both live and archived video to mobile handsets (PDAs, FOMA phones).

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GeoServe SDS carries out protocol conversion not only via software running on a UNIX server but with a dedicated board for hardware processing, achieving optimal packet-processing performance eliminating gateway system streaming distribution bottlenecks. Leveraging Fujitsu's technological expertise in servers and network construction for delivering broadband services, and NMS' industry standards-compliant audio-video technology for mobile handsets, the companies were able to develop a high-speed, high-quality wireless video gateway system in a very short time frame and provide products for a nationwide carrier service. The collaboration has also enabled NMS to quickly launch its platform and solutions business in the Asian market.

"Fujitsu is proud that our GeoServe SDS has been used to realize IMT-2000 (3G) network-delivered multimedia information distribution services from an early stage," said Michitaka Nohda, general manager of Fujitsu's Network Systems Group, Network Service Solutions Division. "This system will help carriers, services providers, and content providers offer new types of image-based services. Moreover, we are currently developing new services such as video conferencing and video archives for mobile Internet environments, and we intend to contribute to the expansion of mobile Internet services."

"NMS is privileged to work jointly with Fujitsu on this advanced gateway for wireless video, which achieves the video streaming performance, high-density design, and standards compliance needed for a successful service. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Fujitsu with the carrier-ready solution they need as they offer new multimedia services for mobile Internet environments," said Gerrold Walker, vice president and general manager of NMS' Platform Solutions business.

Fujitsu and NMS plan to expand this technology to support bi-directional video transmission and multiplexed coding, thereby offering additional new services to wireless service providers.