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RADVISION Announces General Availability Of 3G Video Telephony



GLEN ROCK, N.J., Feb 17, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN) today announced the general availability of the viaIP gw-P20/M Gateway.

Designed for service providers looking to capitalize on their 3G networks by adding value added, high-margin multimedia services, the viaIP gw-P20/M gateway supports real time bi-directional streaming of video telephony sessions between 3G-324M enabled cell phones and PDAs and multiple IP and ISDN-based videoconferencing systems using the 3G-324M standard for real-time multimedia communications over WCDMA and CDMA2000 3G networks. The gateway also enables mobile videophones to utilize additional resources on the IP network including multipoint conferencing bridges to host three or more parties in a single session, voice and video gatekeepers, and terminals.

RADVISION will debut the viaIP gw-P20/M Gateway, powering real time 3G video telephony services, in a live demo 3G network at 3GSM in Cannes France (Feb. 18 - 22, 2003).

In a related press release, RADVISION today announced that NTT-DoCoMo, the world's largest mobile and 3G service provider, has purchased and is using the RADVISION viaIP gw-P20/M gateway to enable DoCoMo 3G broadband subscribers to hold video telephony sessions with IP based videoconferencing end points.

"The driving philosophy of RADVISION has been the ubiquitous support for multimedia communications over any medium, any protocol, at any time," said Gadi Tamari, president and CEO of RADVISION. "Naturally, as videoconferencing as an application began to take hold in the 3G wireless space, RADVISION was there with its protocol and equipment expertise to provide service providers and enterprises with a solution that will enable them to immediately support 3G-based real-time multimedia communications solutions such as videoconferencing."

This new gateway is the first hardware product to be added to RADVISION's family of solutions for the wireless market. The gateway complements the company's existing 3G software development toolkit products, which includes its award-winning SIP and 3G-324M Toolkits for 3G equipment and application development, ideal for developing real-time multimedia-enabled 3G handsets, media servers, and the like.

3G stands for the third generation of wireless communication technology. It refers to improvements in wireless data and voice communications through a variety of proposed standards. Expectations for 3G include high-speed wireless access to the Internet, entertainment, information, e-commerce, interactive application sharing, real-time media streaming, and videoconferencing. 3G-324M is the only protocol today that enables 3G service providers to leverage circuit-switched channels to deliver low-latency, high-bandwidth throughput - necessary to support delay-sensitive applications such as wireless video conferencing, video streaming, and multimedia gaming.

The RADVISION Gateway supports the 3G-324M specifications from both the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for WCDMA and 3GPP2 for CDMA2000. These partnership bodies bring together a number of telecommunications standards groups to define a set of globally applicable technical specifications for 3G systems.

Because the Gateway is a compact PCI card and is part of the viaIP family of products, this gateway is also ideal for enterprises that are looking for a solution that supports both their existing IP or ISDN-based videoconferencing needs and also want to begin supporting employees who are using 3G-based wireless videoconferencing.

About RADVISION

RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN) is the industry's leading provider of high quality, scalable and easy-to-use products and technologies for videoconferencing, video telephony, and the development of converged voice, video and data over IP and 3G networks. For more information please visit our website at www.radvision.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the industry, changes in demand for products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in RADVISION's filings with the Securities Exchange Commission, including RADVISION's Form 10-K Annual Report. These documents contain and identify other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statements. Stockholders and other readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. We undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statement.
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