August 12, 2009
Aricent Media EXP Boosts Multimedia Experience on Communications Devices
By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor
Aricent, a provider of communications software products and services, has announced the availability of Media EXP, a software framework for today’s multimedia-oriented communications devices.
The company’s so-called “Aricent (News - Alert) Media EXP” helps with the delivery of advanced multimedia experiences on devices such as mobile Internet devices (MIDs), smartphones, entertainment devices, digital photo frames, portable media players, netbooks and more.
Media EXP Suite includes a comprehensive portfolio of pre-packaged, pre-optimized software and frameworks along with a wide range of ready-to-market applications necessary to deliver the most advanced multimedia experience.
Officials say that Aricent's Media EXP was designed specifically to help device manufacturers meet growing consumer expectations for an innovative, high performance small screen multimedia experience as screen sizes, power budgets and product introduction cycles continue to shrink.
With its middleware optimized for performance and power efficiency, Media EXP reduces the cost and time-to-market challenges associated with multi-vendor management and complex component integration. It reportedly delivers up to 44 percent improvement in battery life along with more than 50 percent encoding and decoding performance improvement as compared with open source solutions.
Media EXP is compliant with the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) interoperability guidelines and connectivity protocols such as Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) and PictBridge.
“The world of consumer electronics is hyper competitive today. Cost, time to market, small screen multimedia performance and wireless connectivity all must be harmonized into a compelling user experience,” said Sajal Gupta, vice president of business development for wireless solutions at Aricent.
“We introduced Media EXP to help our customers thrive in this environment and deliver innovative, high performance consumer electronics solutions while reducing costs and development complexity,” Gupta said.
The Media EXP suite supports leading operating systems such as Symbian, Google Android (News - Alert), Microsoft Windows Mobile, Linux and Mentor Graphic's Nucleus and is available for leading hardware platforms.
Aricent’s Converged Access Software (CAS) recently won the 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC).
Follow ITEXPO (News - Alert) on Twitter: twitter.com/itexpo
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Jessica Kostek