Dilithium Networks

Dilithium provides mobile video solutions that enable delivery of multimedia services over mobile and broadband networks to any device including mobile phones, smart phones, settop boxes and PCs. Its video technologies are deployed by network operators, content owners, aggregators and equipment providers. Today, the majority of Dilithium’s solutions are IP based, so they can run on a large number of networks.
Corporate history
Dilithium was founded in 2001. Dilithium grew out of the participation on the ITU-T H.324/H.324M workgroup by Dr. Marwan Jabri, company founder and CTO. Over the course of his nearly two decades of research in academia and industry, Dr. Jabri developed intelligent signal processing algorithms for multimedia coding and transcoding. He also developed protocol stack implementations of the H.324/H.324M standard while a Professor at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Jabri formerly held the Gordon & Betty Moore endowed Chair Professor, OGI School of Science and Engineering of the Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU), until 2005.
In July 2010 Dilithium closed down its Indian R&D and sales arm by verbally informing employees that they should not come into work on the next working day, without offering any compensation in lieu of notice.
In October 2010 OnMobile Global Limited, India's largest telecom value-added services player, acquired Dilithium.
Products and services
Dilithium Networks maintains a host of mobile video services that are deployed by network operators, content owners, aggregators and network equipment providers. This solution can be used to adapt live as well as pre-recorded media content in real-time, avoiding the need to perform off-line transcoding.
The DCA supports device-side access using progressive download and RTSP. On the content server side, the DCA supports access from sources including HTTP, MMS and RTSP servers as well as live sources. The DCA adapts between a range of file formats and codec types before delivering the content using the protocols and codecs most appropriate to the client's device and network.
Additionally, the DCA features a PHP based API that allows its integration with application servers and databases. Source media URIs and target media parameters are defined using application scripts which can also interface with external application servers and database. The DCA supports mobile devices such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
As the DCA does transport adaptation, the DCA can be used to stream Live Video and Video On Demand (VOD) for the iPhone using its standard Safari browser.
Dilithium Video Optimizer
The Dilithium Video Optimizer (DVO) is a DCA application for network video traffic shaping and optimization. The solution is used to help shape and optimize data traffic for mobile, broadband or wire-line operators and service providers. The DVO shapes video traffic at the video layer instead of the network layer, which allows for significant savings in radio and core network expansions, and enables operators to accommodate more users with a more satisfying user experience.
DTG 3000 Multimedia Gateway Family
The DTG 3000 Multimedia Gateway Family provides a multimedia solution for cellular, IP, and PSTN convergence as networks evolve towards the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).
The DTG 3000 Multimedia provides real-time transcoding, proxy functions for call signaling, command & control, and voice and video transcoding between multimedia systems protocols including 3G-324M/H.324M, ITU-T H.323 and the IETF SIP.
The DTG 3000 supports 3G multimedia applications and provides transcoding tailored to end-terminals such as mobile phones, PDAs, and IP terminals. The DTG supports a variety of voice and video coding standards and connects end-terminals on circuit switched, packet switched networks, wireless networks and the PSTN.
ViVAS
ViVAS (Video Value Added Services) is a service delivery platform (SDP) that provides real-time streaming of video content to and from mobile wireless devices and SIP clients.

Video content can be created using a graphical user interface and PHP scripting that provides a drag and drop approach to creating video menus, interactive DTMF based video portals, and linking from menus and portals to RTSP video streaming services. ViVAS is compatible with all major voice and video standards used in 3G mobile and IP networks and provide a SIP-based environment enabling access to hosted applications from any SIP device.
Awards
Dilithium received a Technology Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum in 2009.

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