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K-Will Corporation and KDDI Labs USA Integrate North American Operations
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - September, 24th, 2004 — K-WILL Corporation, a video quality monitoring and measurement company announced that it will be combining its US operations with KDDI Labs USA in Palo Alto, CA effective October 1st, 2004.
K-WILL is the US subsidiary of KDDI Media Will, a venture spinout initiative of KDDI Corporation, Japan's second largest telecom service provider. K-WILL was incorporated in 2003 to develop business with video professionals in the content creation, authoring, archiving, and distribution of video materials, in North America and Europe.
"K-WILL is very excited to be co-locating our US operations with the KDDI Labs USA team", said Michael Franzi, vice president of sales & marketing for “ K-WILL”. "As both organizations address the technical needs of the professional video broadcast industry and telecommunications service providers, combining our operations will enhance both organizations' ability to meet the growing needs of our customers for video quality monitoring and "Quality of Service" requirements.
K-WILL's VP21S, TSI-2000 and TMax-2000 offer the professional video industry the ability to distribute real-time video quality monitoring technology throughout their entire network or business infrastructure. Supporting the deployment of new video services and maintaining Quality of Service "QoS" commitments are key requirements for content providers, network operators and video service providers. The use of K-WILL technology gives video professionals a 24/7 real-time view of the health of their video content and systems.
K-WILL TSI-2000 and TMax-2000 products are designed to meet the need for real-time video quality monitoring of MPEG-2 video streams in the networks of broadcasters, network operators, cable TV companies, satellite service providers, telecommunications companies transmitting video, post-production companies and equipment manufacturers. The VP21S is a powerful system for detailed measurement and comparison of a test source and reference videos. It performs more than 240 real-time measurements on each frame of video and offers unique pixel-by-pixel visual comparisons. The VP21S is well suited to encoder/decoder evaluations, broadcast system quality evaluations, dubbing and DVD authoring/evaluation.
"Combining our sales and marketing efforts in the US will add tremendous value to all of our customers,'" said Kazuo Hashimoto, president and CEO of KDDI Labs USA. "We will be able to rapidly apply our enhanced sales, marketing and technical support resources to benefit all of our partners and customers."
Effective October 1st, 2004 K-WILL's new corporate address and contact information will be:
K-WILL Corporation
100 Hamilton Ave., Suite 103 Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone Number: (650) 329-9988
FAX Number: (650) 566-8169
ABOUT K-WILL
Based in El Segundo, Calif., K-WILL Corporation is pioneering the objective evaluation and measurement of digital video and audio quality through its patented "Video DNA" technology. K-WILL is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based KDDI Media Will, a venture spinout of KDDI Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
K-WILL's products serve the entire video industry including content producers, professional broadcast equipment manufacturers, broadcasters and carriers. More information can be found at www.kwillcorporation.com.
ABOUT KDDI R&D Labs
Established in 1960 under KDD, KDDI R&D Laboratories is the research division of Japan's telecom giant, KDDI Corporation. From basic research to developing new applications, their activity covers: Photonic Networks, Wireless & Mobile Communications, Network Design, Operation & Management and multi-Media & Internet applications. Some research highlights include: the world's fastest long-distance wireless LAN system, with 18Mbps at 2.4 GHz band. KDDI Labs USA, a subsidiary based in Palo Alto, California is a facilitator for bringing KDDI's technology to the US market for licensing, distributing and OEM business. For more information, please visit www.kddilabs.com.
ABOUT KDDI CORPORATION
KDDI Corporation is a global telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and is the only single company in Japan providing a comprehensive range of voice, data, Internet and mobile services to business customers and consumer. The KDDI Group consists of approximately 70 companies across Japan and spans 20 counties worldwide. KDDI was established in October 2000 a result of the merger of KDD - Japan's first international telephone and telegraph company founded in 1953 - with DDI and IDO, domestic and mobile telecommunications companies. KDDI's total customer base is over 8 million long-distance telephone subscribers, 20 million mobile telephone subscribers, and 2.5 million Internet service subscribers. For more information, please visit www.kddi.com.
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