Psytechnics To Help Enterprises Manage The Quality Of Content And Applications To Symbian OS Smartphones

Psytechnics joins Symbian Platinum Program

Boston, MA – November 8, 2005 - Psytechnics today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OS™. As a Platinum Partner, Psytechnics is extending its assessment technology for Voice over IP (VoIP), Video over IP, and cellular services and networks to the Symbian OS ecosystem. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the operating system that powers today’s most popular smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers and to date, almost 40 million phones based on Symbian OS have shipped worldwide.

Psytechnics
"This partnership reflects our commitment to the assessment of cellular networks and services from an end user perspective and our intent to build upon our wireless strategy," said Dr. Mike Hollier, CTO of Psytechnics. "By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, we can further expand our assessment of human perception in these cellular networks and strengthen our relationships with users, application developers, smartphone manufacturers and carriers.” 

“The open standards of Symbian OS are driving an innovative cycle that allows Psytechnics to fully demonstrate the power of assessing the end user experience on smartphones,” Hollier added.

Psytechnics’ products include PESQ, the ITU standard P.862 for voice quality measurement and diagnostics, PSM (Psytechnics Speech Monitor), a non-intrusive method for measuring the voice quality of live customer traffic in fixed-line and wireless networks, and PSI (Psytechnics Speech IP Monitor) for passively measuring live voice quality in IP networks.

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“Measuring mobile services and networks from the perspective of the end user has become a fundamental requirement for today’s smartphones,” said Alan Roderick, Head of Partner Marketing, Symbian Ltd. “We are pleased to have Psytechnics join the Symbian Platinum Program and bring its quality assessment technology to the Symbian ecosystem.”

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About the Symbian Platinum Program

The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team.

Symbian Platinum Program

About Symbian Ltd.

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS™, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry.  In the first half of 2005, more than 14.5 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 200 network operators, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to almost 40 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe (Cambridge, UK and Ronneby, Sweden (UIQ Technology AB), Israel and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).

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About Psytechnics

Psytechnics is the global leader in voice and video quality assessment solutions, with more than 3000 software licenses installed at over 200 carriers worldwide. The software integrates into telecommunications test equipment, network elements, delivery devices (phones and set-top boxes) and forms a part of an integrated Operational Support System (OSS). The company calculates the Mean Opinion Score (MOS), a measure of quality from a human perspective. MOS metrics may be used to test services, manage networks and set SLAs from a meaningful, quality viewpoint.

Psytechnics is headquartered in Ipswich, UK, with US offices in Boston, MA. Customers include Agilent Technologies, Cisco, Empirix, Intel, Malden, Electronics, Micromuse, Minacom, NetTest, Radcom, Spirent and Tektronix/Inet. The company holds over 35 patents in the area of voice quality measurement. Psytechnics' products include the ITU standards P.561 INMD, P.562 CCI, P.563, P.862 PESQ, Psytechnics Speech IP Monitor (PSI) and Psytechnics Video IP Monitor (PVI) for IP networks, Psytechnics Speech Monitor (PSM) for monitoring speech waveforms and the J.144 compliant Psytechnics Video Agent (PVA).