Orvieto, April 18 2002: Kelyan Lab, one of the major Italian suppliers of mobile business services, announces the distribution of a solution to bring real-time audio and video communications over GPRS and Wireless LAN to personal digital assistants (PDAs).

The solution, jointly developed with US-based company TABLETmedia, is compliant to international standards (ITU-T H.323) and transforms a PocketPC in a mobile videoconferencing system for mobile-to-mobile and mobile-to fixed station multimedia communication. The adherence with the H.323 international standard makes the solution compatible with all the existing VoIP applications and infrastructure, such as Microsoft NetMeeting, VoIP PBXs and gateway products from Cisco, NEC, Nortel and others and fixed H.323 videoconferencing equipment.

All is needed to run iFon is a PocketPC PDA with an optional camera, connected to wireless networks via GPRS, Wireless 802.11b Bluetooth or UTMS adapters. With iFon and the Kelyan Lab Wireless network infrastructure, it is also possible to deliver high-speed video-on-demand, voice over IP and web browsing services.

"The market for wireless applications is strategic for Kelyan Lab" says Luca Tomassini, CEO of Kelyan Lab. "We are proud to be the first to announce a mobile video communication solution that delivers today video streaming and interactive multimedia content on current mobile networks. iFon's joint development with the San Francisco-based company TABLETmedia, allows us to greatly enhance our product offering with innovative mobile solutions. We are testing iFon with excellent results with one of the major Italian operators on GPRS, broadband 802.11b and UMTS networks. With iFon and our wireless access solutions we are be able to offer today multimedia content as well as increasingly sophisticated solutions, using the broadest possible base of mobile devices".

Alessandro Gatti, CEO of TABLETmedia, states that "Italy is one of the most aggressive and innovative markets in Europe for mobile telephony. The synergy and the partnership agreement with Kelyan Lab allow us to offer several value-added services to all the mobile operators. Kelyan Lab is one of the primary Italian mobile system integrators and this collaboration allows TABLETmedia to more efficiently address the Italian market requirements.

Kelyan Lab, a Franco Barnabe' group company, is a mobile business system integrator as well as a mobile service provider that designs, develops, and manages services and solutions for the wireless world, net mobility and telecommunications.

TABLETmedia, Inc., of San Francisco, designs and distributes interactive communication solutions for mobile platforms. Using advanced integration, communication and compression technologies, TABLETmedia was the first company in the world to transform Microsoft PocketPC PDAs into mobile telephones and video communication systems.

For more information:

Maria Elena Pieretti
Kelyan Lab
Tel. +39 0763 3131
Fax +39 0763 313371
press@kelyanlab.it