Sales support extension reaches Asia

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Nov 10, 2004

Espial has opened new offices in Singapore and Hong Kong and a extended website in the Japanese language.

Espial today announced an increased focus on Asia, with new offices opening in Singapore and Hong Kong and a extended website in the Japanese language.

This continues to round-out the company's presence in Asia, adding to two existing offices in Japan and existing sales presence in Korea, Taiwan and China.

"Asia continues to be a very active region, with ever increasing focus on technical advancements and high performance in consumer electronics, set-top boxes and mobile handset designs," says Espial President, Jaison Dolvane.

"Espial software is designed with this market requirements in mind - along with ensuring ease of customization and a commitment to international standards and localization." Espial has responded to an ever-increasing demand for its software in the region.

Customers in the television, mobile handset and devices markets are impressed with the level of international support, including font handling for single or double-byte characters, various input methods, and automatic international encoding.

Espial software ensures that companies can design and manufacture in one region of the world and sell products to customers located internationally, with minimal time to market and reduced BOM costs.

Localizing easily does not mean consumer electronics designs need to sacrifice functionality and performance.

Espial delivers applications and enabling technologies that allow user interface and content design in a PC environment, with reliable content rendering as the viewer would see on a television, mobile phone or device.

Espial software is scalable from low to high-end designs and portable across a range of set-top boxes, digital televisions and wireless devices.

This is particularly important in Asia as many CE manufacturers, STB OEMS, Telcos and ISPs are rapidly emerging with requirements to address the IPTV market.

In addition to sales presence in the region, Espial has customer support officers located in Japan to service the Asian market.

Native speakers with a clear understanding of market requirements offer valuable assistance when and where companies may require, in English, Japanese or Chinese.

Notable customers in the region include among others Sony, Samsung, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Kyocera, Sanyo, Clarion, S-Net and C and S Technologies.