Under the nonexclusive agreement, Plano, Texas-based Ericsson will integrate RealNetworks' technology for audio and video playback into the equipment it sells to wireless phone companies. Specifically, Ericsson will combine RealNetworks' Helix Universal Server with its new content delivery system, called the Ericsson Content Delivery Solution (ECDS).
The combined technologies will support the playback of video and audio files encoded in RealNetworks' RealAudio and RealVideo, and in industry standards MPEG-4 and 3GPP (third-generation partnership project).
Currently Real Networks offers clients of its player for computers running Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Pocket PC OS, Nokia 9200 Series and Nokia 60 Series (Symbian).
