IPKL - iPackets International, Inc.

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iPackets International, Inc. (Pink IPKL): is a global developer and provider of a wide range of wireless and communications solutions for selected enterprises including mine-safety. iPackets' solutions utilize a breakthrough wireless technology to manage data packets, reliably and efficiently, over any wireless network and virtually on any wireless device. .. SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=22879754
Website: iPackets International, Inc. Home Page
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News Headlines for IPKL (1-10) http://quotes.freerealtime.com/rt/fr...IPKL&type=News

Oct 3 2006 iPackets' Management Team Wraps Up Seven-Day Trip to China to Commence Work on Chinese Joint Venture and Product Certification
Oct 2 2006 iPackets Signs an LOI to Establish a Chinese Joint Venture With China Coal Information Institute and Henan YongAn Investment
Sep 20 2006 iPackets Introduces an Updated Version of Its Advanced iPMine-M8 810A Tracking Device With the ARM7 System-on-Chip
Sep 18 2006 iPackets Sees Continued Growth in China in Light of the Chinese Government's Decision to Spend $60 Billion on Safety Over the Next Five Years
Sep 8 2006 iPackets Terminates Exclusive Global Sales and Marketing Agreement With QuadTech International
Sep 7 2006 StockTargets Inc.: Investor targets increase on iPackets International, Inc. stock (Pink Sheets: IPKL) following a recent analyst recommendation
Jul 11 2006 iPackets Selects the ARM7 System-on-Chip for Its Next-Generation iPMine-M8 810C Tracking Device
Jul 6 2006 iPackets International Comments on the Enactment of the MINER Act of 2006 Into Law
Jun 28 2006 iPackets International Provides Shareholder Update
Jun 28 2006 OTCPicks.com: Daily Market Movers Digest Stock Alerts, Wednesday, June 28th, EGLY, BPMT, ASPR, EQBM, IPKL

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iPackets Signs an LOI to Establish a Chinese Joint Venture With China Coal Information Institute and Henan YongAn Investment

VANCOUVER, BC, Oct 02, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- iPackets International, Inc. ("iPackets") (PINKSHEETS: IPKL), a global developer and provider of wireless and communications solutions for the mine-safety industry, announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") to establish a Chinese Joint Venture ("JV") with China Coal Information Institute ("CCII") and Henan YongAn Investment Guarantee Co. ("YongAn"). The JV will be responsible for the manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing, installation, deployment, and support of iPackets' iPMine solution to the mining industry in China. The operation will be based in the province of Henan, China's second largest coal producing province.

According to the terms of the LOI, YongAn will provide funding of up to $50 million to the JV, and over two acres (10,000 square meters) of land to build and outfit a world-class manufacturing facility in Jiaozuo city, Henan. CCII will provide the JV with professional services including product certification, sales and marketing, technical support, and market intelligence. iPackets will provide the JV with its technology intellectual property as an asset to be utilized for the China market only, continued product development, technology direction, and technical knowledge transfer. The JV agreement is expected to be finalized in two months.

iPackets had several competing offers to establish a JV in China and short-listed three proposals. After months of negotiations, iPackets selected YongAn and CCII who presented the best offer in terms of investment, product certification, and future commitments. CCII played a key role in facilitating the negotiations and discussions. In the April 10, 2006 press release, iPackets announced that it was in discussions with CCII to conclude an agreement.

"This LOI represents the first step towards our strategy of focusing on the mine-safety industry in China," said Naiel P. Kanno, iPackets' President and CEO. "From the outset, our goal has always been to be a premium provider of a true 2-way wireless mine-safety monitoring and tracking system worldwide. The Chinese JV will enable us to meet the local market demand and export products to other markets globally."

"Involving local expertise and funding will expedite the certification process and free-up our resources to focus on the next generation of our technologies as well as other product groups," said Kouros Goodarzi, Vice President of Engineering of iPackets. "We are confident we can help the JV establish a world-class manufacturing and support facility to fast track the introduction of iPMine into the Chinese mining industry."

About the Mining and Mine Safety Industries in China

China comprises more than 280,000 mining enterprises, of which 80,000 are state-owned. There are over 25,000 state-owned coal mines in China, of which over 700 are classified as large mines. Mine safety has been a major issue in the Chinese mining industry, with more than 6,000 miners killed in mining-related accidents in China last year; independent estimates say the real figure could be as high as 20,000. According to Chinese government statistics, more than 12.2 million people were employed as miners in 2005, and approximately 7.0 million of these were coal miners.

About China Coal Information Institute

Established in 1959 by the Chinese government, China Coal Information Institute is a national research organization with over 800 employees. CCII is part of the newly-established National Institute for Occupational Safety and has played a leading role in the development of China's domestic coal industry and occupational safety. As the strongest segment of the CCII, the Energy and Safety Division provides information support and strategic suggestions to government authorities, undertakes market investigations, and provides consulting services to Chinese and international companies to expand their business in the areas of energy, safety, environment, and information technology. For more information, please visit CCII & NIOS.

About Henan YongAn Investment Guarantee Co., Ltd.

YongAn is one of the first investment guarantee companies to be approved by the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission. With over 55 employees, YongAn business scope is finance, investment guarantee, debenture guarantee, financial services and consultation related to investments in small- to medium-sized enterprises.

About iPackets International, Inc. and iPMine

iPackets International is a developer and provider of wireless communications solutions for the global mine-safety industry. iPMine, designed to significantly improve the safety of miners and equipment, is a real-time two-way wireless communications solution that tracks, monitors, and communicates with miners and equipment underground and above ground. Location information of both miners and equipment is collected and displayed live on one or more monitoring stations against a background of a mine's terrain map. iPMine's scalability and flexibility features make it ideal to be deployed in any size mine supporting multiple levels and/or sites. iPMine's redundant communications feature makes the system highly reliable to efficiently operate in the harsh mining environment. For more information, please visit iPackets International, Inc. Home Page.

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Utilizing its breakthrough core technology, the bi-directional RPM, iPackets’ iPSuite software platform reliably and efficiently manages the complex wireless issues. iPSuite enables corporations to rapidly create new, enhance existing, deploy, and manage robust enterprise-wide wireless solutions. The end-to-end Java-based iPSuite platform enables wireless solutions to be deployed on virtually any wireless device supporting Java and any wireless network technology (802.11, GSM/GPRS, CDMA/1XRTT, and others) on the market today while providing for future expandability. iPSuite has two software components: one sits on the mobile device and another one runs on the back-office server.

The mobile device component, called iPS-Client, is a component architecture, Java-based (J2ME) application framework providing an event manager, message queuing, GPS capability, the RPM technology, a configuration manager, and Integration capability. iPackets or the customer can quickly build the forms or GUI that integrates into the iPS-Client environment to act as the input/output to the back-office applications and data. The server component, called iPS-Server, is a component architecture, Java-based (J2SE) environment providing a session manager (eliminating session dropouts during dropped signals and high latency), the RPM technology, a data broker (ensuring data goes to the right applications), and advanced data requestor (for any event driven activity such as two-way instant messaging), agents that monitor the health of the system, enable system configuration for performance and load balancing, and automated self-scaling, and a universal data interface for connectivity to applications and database systems. The system also uses XML throughout for rapid integration into any system supporting XML.

iPSuite has RPM on both the mobile device side and server side, enabling a true push/pull data environment, as corrections can be made from either side of the wireless data connection. iPS-Web is a web-based application providing user and device provisioning, system administration, configuration management, two-way messaging (enterprise-to-device, device-to-enterprise, device-to-device), command messaging to devices, location tracking (real-time and historical), security management, and extensive reporting. Extensive libraries are provided in a rapid development toolset of new web-based applications for wireless data and location services. iPS-Web uses any SQL database (Oracle, or MS-SQL Server) to store all information on the wireless devices, users, system usage data, audit trail data, location data associated to each device and security. Pre-programmed functions and procedures, and APIs are provided to enable rapid integration into third-party applications for such functions as: billing, user information integration, location enabling third-party applications, and integration to other content providers and services.

iPSuite has been designed from the ground up for integration, including the ability to integrate with existing wireless and non-wireless applications and Web Application Servers from Microsoft, IBM, BEA, Oracle and others.

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iPackets is developing a new a product, called iPRoam, that has the bi-directional RPM at its core, but will provide the wireless data communications reliability, efficiency, and seamless heterogeneous network switching (between cellular, 802.11, satellite) without having to build interfaces, forms, or GUIs and without having to change a thing in the application (a true middleware). iPRoam enables telecommunications network providers to offer their subscribers the ability to run applications wirelessly without having to build interfaces, forms, or GUIs.

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VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has emerged as a viable way to drastically cut costs of telephone calls, since telephone calls over the Internet do not incur a surcharge on what the user is paying for internet access. One may wonder why there exists a demand for wireless VoIP (W-VoIP). Again, money is the simple answer here. Businesses take great interest in decreased communication costs while making use of a reliable and good quality service. There is a tremendous market opportunity in W-VoIP. The W-VoIP subscribers figure is estimated to grow to 160 million by 2009.

Since VoIP is packet-based, W-VoIP will have the same challenges (and more) as running any data application over wireless networks. Running VoIP over broadband is quite different from running VoIP over wireless networks. Unlike broadband networks (which rarely break down and very predictable), the wireless network is an environment in constant change. If an application (such as VoIP) does not constantly adapt to these changes, delays and constant disconnections occur. The most common challenges with W-VoIP are: echo, jitters and disconnects.

At present the quality of the voice transmission is poor compared to the quality given from a regular telephone, and connecting is also slower. Other issues are roaming access and security. With regard to roaming access, a typical Wi-Fi Access Point offers a communication range of around 100 metres. This area is also known as a hotspot. The difficulty arises when the caller moves in and out of different hotspots. Most PDAs, laptops and WiFi phones perform full WLAN scans when users enter new hotspot areas. These scans tend to produce a latency of around 400 to 600 milliseconds. The latency has the effect of a reduction in voice quality, and the possibility of the call being dropped becomes more likely.

iPackets is working closely with a VoIP provider to develop a wireless interface for the SIP (session Initiation protocol) stack. Using its bi-directional RPM at its core, iPTalk will address the many inherent challenges of W-VoIP, including echo, jitters, and delay.

iPTalk, a small footprint downloadable software program, will allow W-VoIP providers to offer the wireless option with greater reliability and efficiency, thus increasing customer satisfaction and reduce customer churn.

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IPKL -- iPackets International, Inc. Com ..... Pink Sheets -- Electronic Quotation and Trading System for OTC Securities
Address:
1580-1130 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 4A4 CAN
Website: iPackets International, Inc. Home Page
Phone: 778-328-8200
Fax: 604-681-3514

Business Description:
iPackets International is a global developer and provider of a wide range of wireless and communications solutions for selected enterprises including mine-safety. iPackets' solutions utilize a breakthrough wireless technology to manage data packets, reliably and efficiently, over any wireless network and virtually on any wireless device.

Primary State of Incorporation: Nevada
Country of Incorporation: USA
Year of Incorporation 2004

Officers:
Naiel Kanno, President/CEO/Dir.; J. Roland Vetter, CFO/Dir.; Kouros Goodarzi, VP Eng.; Ara Bedrossian, CTO; Frank K.C. Chen, Dir.; Chanelle Olivier, Other

Fiscal Year End: June 30
Outstanding Shares: Not Available
Estimated Market Cap: Not Available
Float: 5,000,000 as of 2004-11-02

Current Capital Change:
shs increased by 10 for 1 split
Ex-Date: 2006-07-06
Record Date: 2006-07-03
Pay Date: 2006-07-03

Dividends:

Company Notes:
Formerly=J&C International Investment Group Ltd. until 8-04
Formerly=Yap International, Inc. until 5-05
Formerly=Nomad International, Inc. until 11-05

Class Notes:
Capital Change=shs increased by 2 for 1 split. Ex-date=8-4-04. Rec date=7-30-04. Pay date=8-3-04
Capital Change=shs decreased by 1 for 50 split. Pay date=11/22/2005.

Transfer Agent:
West Coast Stock Transfer, Vancouver, BC V6C 1E1

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[jmhollen]

I just ran across IPKL about a week ago. It looks like software that could be added to your cell phone, an RF-capable PDA, or similar device - like a Java game - and it would communicate with antennas/transceivers down in the mine and a master unit connected to the mine's back office server.

That would certainly speed up finding trapped miners like the ones in West Virigina a while back and probably save a lot of lives. The VOIP capability and standard cell phone voice capabilities would be real handy, also.

More reading required..............

John :-)

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