Televigation, a leading provider of personal real-time dynamic navigation technology, announced today that Snap-to-Map(TM), its real-time navigation system, has successfully completed Ericsson's (Nasdaq:ERICY) General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) Applications Performance Evaluation at the company's Berkeley Wireless Center.
The completion of the tests demonstrates that Televigation's Snap-to-Map navigation system is ready for deployment in live GPRS networks.
Televigation is a member of Ericsson's Mobile Applications Initiative (MAI), a strategic program that offers developers the opportunity to create, test, optimize and showcase mobile Internet applications for GPRS and third generation (3G) technologies. Additionally, Snap-to-Map will be showcased in the Ericsson Berkeley Wireless Center's mobile Internet applications demonstration area.
"Designed with the planned evolution of mobile infrastructure in mind, Televigation's Snap-to-Map is "future-proof," said Sammy Nassar, vice president business development, Televigation. "This test by Ericsson, confirming Snap-to-Map's operational compatibility with GPRS, demonstrates the advantage of this "build for tomorrow" strategy."
In bringing together real-time navigation through mobile phones and a highly developed GPRS platform, Televigation can offer wireless operators value added features that will significantly enhance their location-based m-commerce applications. Using Televigation's real-time navigation technology on a GPRS platform, mobile phone users will have access to streaming video, scrolling maps, and improved photo rendering that can be used to clearly locate or identify landmarks and general points of interest making personal navigation, much more exciting.
Televigation successfully tested its technology through MAI's application optimization program, which allows developers to optimize their applications in two different testing environments. The Global Application Test Environment (GATE) provides developers a first impression of how an application might behave when implemented on a GPRS network. The second environment, the GATE Application Performance Evaluation, is a more extensive series of tests targeted at determining how applications will perform in a live GPRS environment.
GPRS is a packet-based wireless communication service that provides a continuous connection to the Internet and data rates up to 115 Kbps for mobile phone users. The introduction of GPRS is one of the key steps in the evolution of today's Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks to 3G, and GSM operators around the world are upgrading their networks with a view to launching commercial GPRS services this year. Ericsson has announced 51 commercial GPRS agreements and has already delivered 50 standard compatible GPRS solutions to leading operators in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas.
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