SUBSCRIBE TO TMCnet
TMCnet - World's Largest Communications and Technology Community

CHANNEL BY TOPICS


QUICK LINKS




Web Meeting - Bradon Technologies: Making Web Meetings Mobile with Smart Phones

TMCnews


TMCnews Featured Article


October 16, 2009

Bradon Technologies: Making Web Meetings Mobile with Smart Phones

By Amy Tierney, TMCnet Web Editor


Editor’s Note: Voice over Internet Protocol or “VoIP” technology is at the root of some exciting new developments in the field of unified communications. On the cutting edge, VoIP technology is now being adapted for smart phones. It’s simple - you access the Internet through your Smart Phone and place your call using VoIP instead. Yet the future of VoIP’s success for smart phone calls and collaboration applications rests largely on the quality of the user experience. In this new series, TMCnet spoke with Bradon Technologies about how they enhance VoIP-enabled PC and smart phone calls and collaboration apps with its underlying ‘BTAC’ audio codec technology.

 
As more and more people adopt a mobile way of life, smart phone devices are expected to grow in record numbers. These devices give customers the chance to make phone calls, present documents and stream live video - all on the go.
 
And as such, the popular, pocket-sized devices are contributing to the converging market for VoIP collaboration applications. But the success of VoIP for PC and smart phone collaboration applications relies largely on the user experience. A major problem for VoIP applications is that the Internet isn’t a stable medium for voice data. Bradon Technologies, a Canadian-based unified communications company, said that VoIP technology is often subject to frequent data loss and transmission delays, which results in poor sound quality and disjointed user synchronization.
 
But audio codecs, the underlying audio compression and decompression technologies, can help address the VoIP delivery problem. Audio codecs used in PC or smart phone apps can be Frame Dependent - where behavior of past speech packets are used to predict the encoding of incoming packets – or Frame Independent – where each new packet is treated independently.
 
Bradon Technologies said it has the solution to take VoIP enabled PC and smart phone collaboration apps to the next level with its proprietary Frame Independent codec - Bradon Technologies Audio Codec, or BTAC. The technology supports an unlimited amount of users without impacting quality. In addition, company officials said the technology offers low bandwidth and CPU load times – critical components for mobile device applications.
 
“BTAC solves the VoIP data delivery problem with its proprietary blend of codec components that maximize efficiencies in the areas of data loss, compression, bandwidth, multi-user synchronization, CPU usage, and UDP (News - Alert) overhead,” officials from Bradon Technologies said.
 
BTAC is part of Bradon’s broader voice engine and is also the platform for the company’s SAViiDesk VoIP-enabled Web meeting and collaboration product. SAViiDesk permits audio, video and desktop sharing over the Internet and smart phones using VoIP technology. Users can share their desktop and video with high quality, synchronized audio. Participants can attend online meetings by using BlackBerry (News - Alert) smart phones as well as other Windows Mobile devices. 

Bradon officials said three main characteristics set BTAC apart: 

Superior Encoding & Decoding Technology  - BTAC requires less computing power than other codecs. It efficiently manages dedicated CPU recourses and increases the number of concurrent channels dramatically. BTAC runs four-times faster than G.729 and is 10-times more agile than iLBC.

180 ms Frame Length  -BTAC has a longer frame length processing delay of 180ms compared to 10ms-30ms for other codecs. The frame size of 180 ms provides a stable stream and works well for dial-up modem and satellite connections. 

High data compression (lowers bandwidth) - BTAC delivers high compression rates without increasing CPU usage. The overhead is only approximately 10 percent higher than BTAC's bit rate. This makes BTAC 9.6Kbps 400 percent efficient in bandwidth compared to the G.729 8Kbps codec.
Bradon is offering BTAC as a software development kit for companies looking for a competitive advantage with VoIP-enabled unified communications and mobility applications with PCs and smart phones, officials said.
 
For more in the next series about the role of VoIP technology in mobile communications, visit the Web Meeting channel on TMCnet.
 

Amy Tierney is a Web editor for TMCnet, covering unified communications, telepresence, IP communications industry trends and mobile technologies. To read more of Amy's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney







Technology Marketing Corporation

2 Trap Falls Road Suite 106, Shelton, CT 06484 USA
Ph: +1-203-852-6800, 800-243-6002

General comments: [email protected].
Comments about this site: [email protected].

STAY CURRENT YOUR WAY

© 2024 Technology Marketing Corporation. All rights reserved | Privacy Policy