Major VoIP Suppliers Select GIPS iLBC Royalty-Free Voice Codec to Optimize Voice Across Applications and Platforms17 December 2005
Global IP Sound (GIPS), the leading
provider of embedded speech-processing solutions for the Voice over IP
(VoIP) market, today announced that several leading companies in the VoIP
market will be integrating its iLBC voice codec into their products. The
newest users of the royalty-free codec include HelloSoft and CIRPACK, among
others.
"Clearly, there is widespread demand for high-quality voice across every
imaginable application and platform in the VoIP marketplace," said Gary P.
Hermansen, President and CEO of Global IP Sound. "GIPS reach is extending
into every corner of the world, and we will continue to work to serve the
needs of our global customers."
These newest customers, who join other well-known companies such as Texas
Instruments and AudioCodes on the growing roster of iLBC-enabled solutions,
are planning to implement iLBC in a variety of existing and next-generation
voice switches, gateways, and VoIP software solutions for various VoIP
client devices. All of the solutions that integrate iLBC have the
advantage of being interoperable with other iLBC-enabled products, allowing
for high-quality VoIP communications across various platforms.
"As the largest supplier of the most optimized embedded VoIP software stack
for various VoIP end points and chipsets, our customers expect us to be
able to communicate across multiple platforms and within a variety of
environments," said Muhammad Helal, Vice President, Marketing and worldwide
sales at HelloSoft. "GIPS iLBC helps us to remain competitive by providing
us with the most advanced voice capabilities available in the market today
and by delivering a solution that, as an industry standard, provides
unsurpassed interoperability."
The iLBC codec remains the industry's only solution ever to be standardized
by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and is designated by Cable
Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs®), a nonprofit research and
development consortium, as a mandatory component of PacketCable
voice-over-cable telephony systems. The solution offers superior speech
quality and packet loss robustness compared to other low bit rate codecs.
For instance, GIPS iLBC delivers speech quality better than the G.729A
codec and equal to the G.729E codec, while offering substantially better
quality over congested networks plagued by packet loss.
About Global IP Sound
Founded in 1999, Global IP Sound develops embedded voice processing
technologies for real-time communications over packet networks. GIPS
SoundWare™ provides better than PSTN voice quality and fidelity in
end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss. Global
IP Sound's world-renowned speech processing and IP telephony experts
deliver these solutions to applications developers, gateway and chip
manufacturers. Companies using GIPS SoundWare™ products include Nortel
Networks, Skype, WebEx, AOL, EarthLink and other key players in the VoIP
market. Global IP Sound is a member of the Intel® PCA Developer Network,
the Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partners and Texas
Instruments' third party developer network. Global IP Sound has
headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Stockholm, Hong Kong and
Boston. More information is available at www.globalipsound.com.
About HelloSoft
HelloSoft is a leading provider of high-performance communications IP for
next-generation VoIP, WLAN, VoWLAN, and cellular devices and equipment.
Established in 1999, HelloSoft lincenses customizable Physical and Mac
Layer, Networking Protocol IP and complete VoIP building blocks including
Echo Cancellers, SIP, and codecs to semiconductor companies and OEMsfor
Voice-Over-Packet Wireless LANs, and 2.5/3G wireless. HelloSoft's solutions
are provided as a suite of integrated products, which address
next-generation mobile phones, personal digital assistants, IP phones,
set-top boxes, game consoles, residential gateways, enterprise and SOHO
gateways, WLAN access points, carrier-class media gateways, softswitches,
and mobile base stations. For more information, visit the company's Web
site at www.hellosoft.com.
About CIRPACK
CIRPACK, Thomson's Next Generation Networks business unit, develops voice
switching platforms that can be connected to TDM, ATM and IP networks to
deliver advanced phone services to all types of subscribers simultaneously
and provide seamless migration of wireline networks to IMS/TISPAN
architectures. It provides carrier-grade reliability, scalability and
regulatory features for massive deployments of broadband telephony and IP
Centrex, for instance, as well as of legacy PSTN infrastructures delivering
ISDN or POTS services. CIRPACK works with industry leaders such as IBM
Global Services to provide global solutions. With over 2 million Class-5
licences deployed, and some 60 telco customers in 25 countries, CIRPACK is
the largest softswitch vendor in Europe and third largest worldwide. For
more information, please visit www.cirpack.com.
Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners.
For information, contact:
John Hermansen
Global IP Sound
Email Contact
(415) 397-1280
Donna Candelori
Candelori Communications
Email Contact
(408) 774-3414
SOURCE: Global IP Sound
Source: marketwire
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