Lucent, PacketVideo To Jointly Optimize Wireless Offerings

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September 07, 2000 (12:35 PM EDT)

Lucent, PacketVideo To Jointly Optimize Wireless Offerings

Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group and PacketVideo on Thursday announced plans to jointly optimize products for next-generation devices used in wireless products.

Under a collaboration agreement, PacketVideo's wireless media software will be optimized for higher performance and low-power consumption when running on Lucent chip sets.

The software will serve Lucent's chip solutions in GPRS and UMTS/EDGE applications. The targeted chip setswill include platforms based on the StarCore SC100 DSP, said Lucent, which is jointly developing the basic DSP architecture with Motorola Inc. (stock: MOT) under a two-year-old alliance.

"The capabilities of mobile devices are rapidly expanding, and access to the Internet and other rich media are becoming key requirements," said Denis Regimbal, general manager of the wireless semiconductor business unit at Lucent Microelectronics. "Entertainment, such as viewing movie previews, and time-saving functions, such as calling up local traffic reports, are emerging as exciting potential applications for wireless terminals."

After evaluating multiple software packages for wireless multimedia, Lucent Microelectronics selected PacketVideo's technologies for next-generation applications, Regimbal said. The collaboration will focus on PacketVideo's PVPlatform software, which the San Diego company said is the commercially available wireless streaming video delivery system for handheld devices. The software platform provides encoding, transmission and decoding capabilities, based on the MPEG-4 compression standard.

"Using the PacketVideo software with Lucent's established position in wireless terminal chip sets -- coupled with Lucent's StarCore SC100 capabilities -- will help set the benchmark for next-generation multimedia applications," said James Brailean, president, chief technology officer, and co-founder of PacketVideo Corp.

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