Bytemobile

Infobox_Company | company_name = Bytemobile
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 2000
industry = Wireless Services, Mobile Internet Services
key_people = Hatim Tyabji – Executive ChairmanTom Hubbs – Chief Financial Officer

Constantine Polychronopoulos, Ph.D. – Founder and Chief Technology OfficerAdrian Hall - Chief Marketing Officer
location = Mountain View, CA USA
homepage = [http://www.bytemobile.com/ www.bytemobile.com]

Bytemobile provides mobile internet software and services for operators of commercial data networks. The company is based in Mountain View, California, USA and has offices throughout Europe, Asia and North America.

Bytemobile’s Unison internet protocol (IP) services enable network operators to deliver advanced data, web and multimedia applications to consumers on mass-market cellular phones, feature phones, smartphones, and laptop computers. The company’s IP services are integrated within a single architecture and platform installed in the core of the operator’s network. As such, they transparently adapt and optimize the delivery of content to all mobile devices to enhance the user experience.

Bytemobile was founded in 2000. In 2001, the company had three live network deployments of its core product, Optimization Services Node (OSN). By the second quarter of 2008, Bytemobile's customer base consisted of 91 mobile network operators in 53 countries, serving more than one billion subscribers. The list boasts 12 of the world's 15 top tier-one operators. Leading customers include AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Telefónica/O2, and Vodafone. [cite web|url=http://www.bytemobile.com/company/customers.html |title= Bytemobile - Customers |accessdate=2007-08-29]

Products

In 2007, Bytemobile introduced next-generation mobile value-added services on its Unison Mobile Internet Platform. Web Fidelity Service uses web content adaptation to provide mobile consumers with open internet browsing on all wireless handsets. [cite web|url=http://www.digital50.com/news/items/PR/2007/02/06/SFTU082/bytemobile-launches-unison-web-fidelity-service-to-provide-open-internet-access-on-ma.html |title= Bytemobile Launches Unison Web Fidelity Service to Provide Open Internet Access on Mass-Market Wireless Devices |accessdate=2007-08-29] It also employs multimedia content optimization that enables users to discover and access internet video on feature phones and smartphones. Both services are integrated with dynamic optimization to improve network efficiency and capacity. Neither service requires client software downloads or other changes to existing devices. [cite web|url=http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=2284 |title= Bytemobile Enables Video On All Handsets |accessdate=2007-08-29]

Web Fidelity Service also enables carriers to monetize open internet browsing by serving ads in content-adapted web pages on virtually all mobile devices. This provides a new ad inventory channel to complement data revenues and subsidize data delivery costs. [cite web|url=http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3627868 |title= Mobile Firm Aims to Capture Off-Deck Ad Dollars |accessdate=2008-01-16]

Other Unison IP services include:
* Dynamic optimization of mobile networks, which speeds content delivery to handsets and laptops through data reduction
* Optimization of mobile web browsers, which accelerates browser speed by off-loading web processing to an optimized server
* Content filtering, which controls internet access through dynamic monitoring and blocking of objectionable websites
* A WAP gateway that optimizes portal browsing on wireless application protocol handsets.

Awards and Recognitions

* 2008 Visiongain Mobile Content Award, Gold Ranking, Enriching Search and Discovery
* 2007 Deloitte Wireless Fast 50
* 2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Silicon Valley
* 2007 Inc. 5000
* 2007 CTIA Emerging Technologies (E-Tech) Award Finalist, Network Infrastructure
* 2007 GSM Association Global Mobile Award Finalist, Best Service Delivery Platform
* 2006 GSM Association Global Mobile Award Finalist, Best Network Quality Initiative
* 2005 AlwaysOn: Top 100 private companies
* 2005 GSM Cutting Edge Promise Award, Enabling Applications

References

External links

* [http://www.bytemobile.com/ Company home page]
* [http://www.bytemobile.com/blog/ Company Blog]