News Release from: TTPCom
Subject: Ajar
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 February 2005

Mobile platform adds 3GPP codec development

The Enhanced aacPlus codec (aacPlus v2), the 3GPP standard for high quality content delivery, will soon be available pre-integrated in Ajar, TTPCom's advanced applications platform.

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The Enhanced aacPlus codec (aacPlus v2), the 3GPP standard for high quality content delivery, will soon be available pre-integrated in Ajar, TTPCom's advanced applications platform. This optimised implementation of the aacPlus compression technology enables TTPCom's customers to address the growing music handset market without the need for extensive software development. The aacPlus open standard audio codec has been adopted by 3GPP for its ability to deliver superior audio quality at the lowest possible bit ates using limited memory capacity.

Consequently, leading handset manufacturers and silicon vendors have already deployed aacPlus as the key enabler for functionality such as mobile streaming or ringtone downloads.

aacPlus delivers CD-quality stereo at 48Kbit/s, near CD-quality stereo at 32Kbit/s, excellent quality stereo at 24Kbit/s, and good quality for mixed content even below 16Kbit/s mono.

Now that the technology is optimised in Ajar, manufacturers can slash development and testing cycles when developing handsets with these capabilities.

Richard Walker, Managing Director of TTPCom's Software Business Unit comments: 'There is a huge demand from operators to provide music capable handsets'.

'The challenge for manufacturers is to deliver this functionality with minimal impact on cost and times to market'.

'Now that we have pre-integrated Coding Technologies' aacPlus codec onto our Ajar platform the implementation of the industry standard codec is as fast and efficient as possible'.

'TTPCom is integrating best of breed technologies into its Ajar platform and has therefore included aacPlus as the de facto standard for these exciting new music services', added Oliver Kunz, Vice President Strategic Marketing at Coding Technologies.

'This enhancement will enable many more handset manufacturers to meet operators' demands to deliver exciting new music, streaming and download functionality to their handsets'.

'This in turn will allow operators to generate new revenues from high fidelity music'.

The Ajar platform combines a comprehensive applications framework, a toolset for the development and testing of applications and user interfaces and a complete suite of applications for today's leading-edge phones.

It enables a single applications investment for low-end to high-end multimedia phones and portability across multiple modems and multiple architectures.

The reduction in development costs and productivity benefits result in a reduced time-to-market and Ajar's flexibility enables handset manufacturers to quickly and easily develop a greater selection of products with a higher level of differentiation.

A number of TTPCom and third party applications are pre-integrated, including Java, MMS, e-mail, WAP2.0, digital camera support, embedded and downloadable games, polyphonic ringtone and music phone technology, voice recognition and multimedia content.

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