Oct 2007: Zenon ~ Audio and Video Flash Telephony

Today Requestec, in conjunction with Small Media Giant, announce the launch of Zenon, a video telephony platform. For the first time, Zenon enables audio and video calls to be made between ordinary web pages and both fixed-line and mobile telephones, without the need to download a calling application to the computer itself.

Employing Adobe’s near-ubiquitous “Flash” player, Zenon can be seamlessly integrated into any website, enhancing search engines, social networks and e-commerce sites to name just a few examples. Zenon is set to revolutionise communications between the internet, fixed-line and wireless networks.

Making calls to computers, landlines and mobiles from the internet is not a new concept in itself. However, communicating via the Zenon platform brings with it several advantages:

• No need to download a calling application to the computer; instead Zenon which is pure Adobe Flash is already present on over 98% of PCs worldwide
• Embeddable links allow users to include true “click-to-call” buttons in web pages, emails and other computer documents which actually start the call when clicked on
• Configurable billing mechanisms dictate where payment for call (if applicable) is taken
• Telephone calls can be made to standard email addresses (which act as Zenon user IDs)
• Call divert allows calls to be anonymously forwarded to landline or mobile numbers
• Video calling to 3G mobile networks
• Voice and video conferencing

The Zenon platform gives rise to numerous applications that have not been possible in the past. Now, site owners or visitors are able to embed presence-enabled widgets into existing web pages that allow them to be contacted via both voice and video calls with a single click. The potential this has for online social networking as well as more commercial internet ventures is simply vast. With the ability to divert both voice and video calls from the internet out to telephones without revealing the Zenon user’s telephone number to the caller, Zenon users are easily contactable exactly when and how they want to be. Zenon supports both SIP and H323 video telephony protocols.

VOIXIO.COM is the first service to employ Zenon technology.

Voixio offers advertising-funded FREE calling to any landline or mobile anywhere in the world. Log in from any web browser, access your address book and securely call your friends and family. In Voixio, advertisers sponsor calls, whilst callers are exposed to their targeted advertising. Advertising is:

• Relevant; users will need to submit their sex, age and interests whilst “built-in” geo-location enables advertising to be targeted even further
• Visually engaging; rich, multimedia video advertising is set to flourish
• Non-intrusive; feel good factor of companies sponsoring calls contributes to brand equity

Requestec Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 8707 565 797
Sovereign House, 227 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SD

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