Video Communications - The Missing Link

Video has finally caught up with the digital communications revolution. With the advent of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Part 10) video-coding standard, higher compression efficiencies are now possible, making high-definition video a reality for bandwidth constrained applications. The affordability of H.264 codecs in combination with compression efficiencies is driving a revolution in the way we are communicating today - both in real-time or otherwise.

Imagine being able to connect wirelessly from your game console, laptop computer, portable media player, DVD player, settopbox or DVR to your HD screen and do so from anywhere in your home.

Imagine being able to watch over your elderly parents or grandparents from tens or hundreds of miles away with the ability to control the camera instantly, or conducting a video conferencing session with loved ones on your HDTV set from the comfort of your living room couch, or capture life’s precious moments in full HD on your mobile handset and share these instantly with family and friends.

These applications are driven by the following requirements:

• Low latency.
• HD & SD video.
• Multi-stream video.
• Low power.

Video codecs are no longer a niche market, but drive a significant portion of the growth expected in multimedia semiconductor products over the next decade. W&W Communications has developed efficient and proprietary H.264 video coding algorithms and hardware architectures. These perform full-HD (1080p60) encode and decode at very high quality and low bit rates, encode and decode multiple streams (up to 32) and guarantee low latency. And all this at very low power dissipation.

Our H.264 video codecs allow OEMs to innovate and lead in digital video products and are deployed in a host of applications:

• Wireless HDMI cable replacement.
• Video surveillance.
• HD video conferencing.
• Vertical embedded applications (elctronic news gathering, telemedicine, etc.).
• Camcorder functionality in mobile handsets.

Our vision is a world where human existence is meaningfully augmented through video communications. Our mission is to deliver supreme, high value-added implementations of one- and two-way video compression technology to make this happen. We bring a keen understanding of the requirements for the video codec, system level interfaces and firmware in the applications we serve. We understand that our customers demand "Simply Perfect Video" at practical bit rates, regardless of the application.

W&W Communications, Inc. was established in 2003 by a team of leading professionals with over a century of collective industry experience in the video, networking and telecommunications industry. W&W Communications is headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, California and operates offices in Beijing, China and Madrid, Spain.

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