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The company that helped invent ringback tones has already developed a platform for serving mobile video. Now it's concentrating on how the content is portioned out and delivered. And what about open networks? Analisa Roberts at RealNetworks says it's a nice idea, but still a couple of years off from being a significant force in the US
The marriage of mobility and the Internet promises to define the way people view connectivity forever. As devices become intelligent personal mini-computers, consumers will have the full power of the Internet at their fingertips anywhere and anytime, dramatically shaping the way they manage their everyday lives. Nowhere is this playing out more clearly than in mobile commerce, giving our highly mobilized society the ability to pay bills or purchase goods and services on the go. This has the potential to unleash an entirely new economic model, and mobile operators are well positioned to take advantage of this lucrative market, which represents billions of transactions and revenues going forward.
Camiant enables service providers to produce superior experiences for their customers by instructing their networks to deliver exactly the right mix of resources for the application at hand. Camiant prevents both the under-delivery and the over-delivery of resources for applications ranging from simple instant-messaging tools to complex video-enabled telephony services. No matter what the application, Camiant ensures that customers enjoy flawless, reliable performance that today's best-effort networks cannot always render.
