Thomson provides technologies, services, and systems to help the Media & Entertainment industries create and distribute new multimedia services made of voice, data and video. Thomson's customers are content creators (movie studios, broadcasters, advertisers, etc.) and content distributors (broadcasters, telecom operators, Internet Service Providers, retailers, etc.).

Thomson has over 24,465 employees in 30 countries for revenues of 5,747 Million Euros in 2006. Thomson is listed on the Euronext Paris (18453) and NYSE (TMS) exchanges.

Thomson's Network Intelligence Solutions (NIS), part of the company's Systems division, is one of the leading suppliers of VoIP and IPTV service delivery platforms enabling telecom operators to deploy broadband telephony, IPTV, Triple Play and Fixed-Mobile Convergence. Thomson's Cirpack SoftSwitches deliver primary line telephony services on a large scale. Thomson's SmartVision TV platform offers rich video services over fixed and mobile networks. Both are closely integrated with Thomson's wide range of digital set-top boxes, phones, broadband modems and gateways for the easy delivery of unique user experiences.

Thomson's Cirpack platforms can be configured for IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) architectures ensuring seamless migration of today's telecom infrastructure towards future-proof networks delivering any type of multimedia services over any wireline and wireless local loops. Thomson is dedicated to promote technology standards helping telecom operators deploy rich voice and TV services with open infrastructures. Thomson Corporate Research is Chair of the HD Forum and of ETSI's DVB-IP workgroups standardizing IPTV for IMS/TISPAN networks.