Thomson uses the Smeet SDK, Salyens' video conferencing solution, to fast track their research and further innovate ---------------- TOKYO, Japan (25 July, 2005) Thomson, a global corporation that specializes in services to the media and entertainment industries, selected the Smeet SDK to carry out research in the field of video conferencing. Thomson researchers compared current video conferencing solutions from several vendors, including France Telecom, RADVision and Microsoft, as part of their research activities. "When a company with more than 400 researchers and 45'000 patents came to us for evaluating the Salyens products, we had to take notice." stated Arnaud Tardy, Salyens co-founder. "Their praising the Smeet SDK for ácompleteness, innovative features and flexibilityâ, as well as top marks in most of their benchmarks, is another step toward establishing Salyens as a leader in video conferencing and streaming." Salyens innovative implementation of a multi-platform, easy to customize, and self-configured video conferencing solution based on the popular worldwide IP telephony standards Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and H.323, incorporates technologies like SSL (HTTPS), XML, VPN, ActiveX, as well as many high quality codecs for audio (e.g. AMR, iLBC) and video (e.g. MPEG-4, 3GPP, H.263+) to deliver a complete solution to service providers and system integrators. About Salyens Salyens delivers video softphones and streaming software that are economically and functionally designed for large-scale Video & Voice over IP deployments. By providing state-of-the-art technology at an exceptional value, Salyens helps customers create inventive and ground-breaking applications that support rapid service adoption with sustainable growth. http://www.salyens.com/ About Thomson Thomson provides the Media & Entertainment industries with the services, systems and technologies they need to optimize their performance in a changing technology environment for video and imaging. http://www.thomson.net/ All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright 2005 Salyens. All rights reserved.