Dilithium claims to be big in Beijing

GIVEN HOW big the Chinese mobile market is, it's no wonder that Dilithium is proud to have won a recent award from the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Applications in China.

The company is claiming its software has become "the de facto standard for the TD-SCDMA market with an estimated 80 per cent market share." TD-SCDMA is, of course, China's homegrown 3G standard.

Looking at Dilithium's impressive client list, the INQ is struggling to think who might have the other 20 per cent. Surely not Nokia?

Handset stack customers include: BenQ, Inventec, HTC, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, NEC, Samsung, Sanyo, Toshiba, UT Starcom, Yulong, and ZTE. Other customers include Qualcomm, Spreadtrum and Datang.

You might be wondering what Dilithium software does. Well, it helps to reduce a 3G video-call setup time lag from something very noticeable to about a second.

If you want the full tech jargon, the stack conforms to the ITU's T H.324 Annex K, also known as MONA (Media Oriented Negotiation Acceleration). Basically H.324 is a joint effort between Dilithium and Packetvido.

The product which won the company a prize is its DTG multimedia gateway. What this does is bridge the gap between 3G forms of video calling and other variants using older standards or IP standards.

The company says Dilithium products are "currently in commercial 3G trials with major operators and service providers in China."

So, if anybody can guess what China really is going to do about 3G licences, Dilithium must be high on the list. µ