ATEME - ATEME opens a Japanese office

ATEME (www.ateme.com) - arch provider of accouterments and software technologies for beat video compression on DSP, PC and FPGA, has opened an Office in Tokyo, Japan on September 1, 2005 and appointed Mr. Yasushi Kato as Sales Director for Japan.

The aperture of an appointment in Japan is the aboriginal footfall appear extending ability into this activating economy.
ATEME Japan appointment will access ability by accouterment bounded chump abutment and enabling the amplification of sales activities. Four new ally are accepted to strengthen the administration arrangement afore the end of the year.

A able bounded administration network
Since 2002 a individual benefactor was apery ATEME, and was alone focused on DSP-based solutions: video compression codecs for Texas Instruments’ DSP (H.264, MPEG-4, WM9, MPEG-2), DM64x-based development boards and platforms, advertence designs for video aegis or alive media.

Broadcast above beat video codecs like H.264 and MPEG-4 as able-bodied as advertence designs targeted at the video aegis bazaar are accepted to crop an added ample allotment in the advance of the Japanese High Tech industry. ATEME’s sales in Japan could represent up to 10% of its acquirement aural two years.

Yasushi Kato, Sales administrator for Japan
Yasushi Kato is a Computer Science alum of Tokyo Noko University. He has added than 15 years in Sales, Marketing and Channel Management for all-embracing IT firms operating in Japan, including Aladdin (Nasdaq ALDN) and a lot of afresh Ubicom.

Japan appointment e-mail address: japan@ateme.com

Opportunities to accommodated ATEME in Japan over the advancing months:
-Tokyo - October 21, 2005: Altera PLD World
-Yokohama - November 16-18, 2005: Embedded Technology
-Tokyo - March 7-10, 2006: Security Show


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About ATEME:

ATEME ( www.ateme.com ) is a world-leading provider of beat video compression technology: H.264, MPEG-4, WM9. Its ability is accessible through IP cores for FPGA, DSP and PC libraries, development platforms, production-ready designs and custom services: A/V consulting, H/W design, IPs customization, S/W integration... The above superior of its encoding IPs and the interoperability of its codecs accept been broadly accustomed by both absolute testing and customers’ benchmarks and accomplish them the best best for video security, alive media or pro AV appliances.


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