With US headquarters at the Science Center in Philadelphia, Actminds has 15 years of expertise in telecommunications working with clients and partners all the way from product conception to final delivery and support in four specific areas:

VOIP - developing applications and the interface between legacy and IP networks for public and private systems
IPTV - enabling current IP network to handle IPTV
WIMAX - develop systems for WiMax at the base as well as subscriber station
PSTN - switching and access

Actminds has a unique value proposition that combines hardware and software integration for products sold in a worldwide basis and offers unique capabilities of R&D services.

"Actminds is one of the few Brazilian companies that can offer this combined approach of hardware and software on the VoIP, IPTV, and WiMax in Telecom and Internet," said company director Fabio Frias, who will be in San Jose. "This competitive advantage is an important asset for companies looking to improve their productivity and free up resources for other purposes." According to Frias, this competitive advantage is also responsible for leading ActMinds' fast growth in this sector, finding space as a provider of world class R&D services to U.S. companies, leveraging their investment in R&D.

Actminds has several notable clients with established projects including Lucent Technologies, Jabil Circuit and Aztek.

The model combination that most of Actminds' clients are following is to have a core team in house to hold the know-how and to outsource the heavy job of implementing and testing. The end-to-end R&D outsourcing comes later after the client gains more confidence on the provider.

To secure more business Actminds maintains a high level of investment in Customer IP Protection, Quality of Services, CMMi, ISO and other International Certification standards, Professional Certification, Labs Infrastructure and Communication Skills. "These are key elements of a long term strategy that has brought ActMinds a level of competence on par with the major in-house development teams of its clients," said Frias.

According to Frias, while the majority of larger companies like Motorola, Nortel, and Intel, have their own captive outsourcing centers in lower cost countries. Smaller companies cannot follow the same model due to economy of scale. "Actminds has a cost advantage structure that would allow these smaller companies to also have an outsourcing strategy that would improve their competitivity vis a vis the larger industry players," says Frias.

Brazil based companies offer a wide range of advantages to their US clients. Brazil is geographically and culturally close to the US. Brazil is only one time zone away from New York. New York - Sao Paulo is a nine hour flight, which allows next day meetings between client and provider whenever necessary.

About ActMinds
ActMinds provides Hardware and Software R&D Outsourcing services for Vendors of Telecom Equipment, Internetworking Equipment and Semiconductors with extensive experience in VoIP, IPTV, WiMax and PSTN.

To schedule interviews with a representative of ActMinds please contact Ana Martini at 202-471-4020.