Europe : DiGi, one of Southeast Asia’s leading operators, today announced the successful selection and deployment of its next generation audio and video services. LogicaCMG was selected as the lead systems integrator and technology provider.

Inset is Il-Taek LIM, CEO of Nextreaming quoted below.

Nextreaming provided the complete suite of its advanced streaming and encoding products. Because of the close collaboration, DiGi’s EDGE and GPRS mobile customers now have the highest quality multimedia services available in the world.

“DiGi has always been an innovator in new and relevant services to cater to our customers’ needs and demands. Innovation for DiGi is not just about new technology and offerings. It is about how the two translate into simple and easy-to-use services that our customers want,” said Jon Eddy, DiGi’s Chief Technology Officer. “After a complete evaluation of solutions in the market and a quality comparison, we selected LogicaCMG and Nextreaming because of their adherence to standards and ability to provide a superior user experience at any given bandwidth.”

The services have recently gone live after extensive testing and have shown success in attracting users as well as lowering deployment costs.

“We know that operators are looking for value and quality when selecting a multimedia streaming solution,” said Il-Taek LIM, CEO of Nextreaming. “Our goal is to provide operators with positive return on investment by enabling the highest quality presentation, providing a substantial out of the box feature set, and complete interoperability with all standards based handsets.”

“Our focus on delivering innovative applications and telecoms solutions have become a key differentiator for LogicaCMG. In this instance, we were able to empower DiGi to offer richer mobile experience, which will in turn give them the opportunity to generate more revenue from mobile data traffic. LogicaCMG is a global leader in telecom products, services and solutions and the deployment with DiGi demonstrates our expertise in enabling operators to assure innovation in Next Generation telecoms,” said Boudewijn Pesch, managing director, global telecoms of LogicaCMG in Asia.

Nextreaming’s products and services provide a complete multimedia solution to operators interested in downloading and/or streaming. Its Xenon product line provides high quality encoding. While Nextreamer provides out of the box compatibility with operators billing and service infrastructure. Its NexAwareTM module provides one of the most advanced bandwidth adaptation technology in the world. Together the solution supplies service providers with powerful tools to generate income from multimedia.