[December 18, 2012] |
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Indian LTE Giant Reliance Licenses SPIRIT Mobile Video Engine
MOSCOW --(Business Wire)--
SPIRIT
DSP, the world's #1 voice and video over IP engines provider serving
more than 1 billion users in 100+ countries, has announced today that
Indian telecom operator Infotel, a subsidiary of Reliance Group, one of
India's top three private sector business houses with annual turnover of
more than $60 billion, has licensed TeamSpiritTM
Voice&Video Engine Mobile.
Reliance intends to invest $10 billion in its LTE (News - Alert) network and has turned
to SPIRIT's software products for voice and video calls over LTE instead
of waiting for phone makers who are slow in offering handsets
transmitting voice and video in 4G networks. The lack of mobile devices
supporting VoLTE (Voice-over-LTE) drives a growing number of carriers to
implement a software-only product, which is more flexible, scalable and
offers a quicker time to market. SPIRIT engines plays a key role in
providing HD voice and video quality as a part of IMS/RCS service
infrastructure on popular Android (News - Alert) and iOS smartphones and tablet PCs, as
well as PCs with Mac OS or Windows.
By using SPIRIT engines, Reliance will be able to offer its subscribers
high-quality services as an alternative to Skype (News - Alert) over cellular networks
and attract new high-value subscribers that used services from other
operators and commercial OTT service providers.
"While the number of LTE networks is growing, the quantity of mobile
devices models supporting VoLTE is extremely small. LTE phones and
tablets mainly support only data transmission over an LTE modem, while
voice and video are going via 2G/3G network. It's an akward situation
for mobile operators who had hoped that phone OEMs would flood the
market with 4G LTE-ready phones," said SPIRIT's VP Alex Kravchenko.
"Carriers in dozens of countries now plan to or already deploy VVoIP
services under their own brands in an effort to stop subscribers from
switching to OTT providers, such as Skype, Viber and WhatsApp. The
TeamSpirit software engines enable the transmission of voice and video
packets via LTE modems and help operators use mobile devices available
in today's market. Reliances decision to follow the growing trend is a
good example of carriers' flexibility to create their own competitive
services faster. It's The Fastest who wins in today highly competitive
technology world, not The Biggest one."
About TeamSpirit Voice and Video Engine
TeamSpirit
Voice&Video Engines support both RCS-e and VoLTE. The engines
include resource-efficient HD voice and video codecs, echo and noise
cancelling (AEC), automatic voice and video rate selection (ARS),
packets delays mitigation, speech enhancement, network adaptation, voice
and video synchronization, a dozen of standard digital telephony
functions and more, in addition to a dozen of ITU-T standard G.7xx and
H.26x codecs included in the engine. SPIRIT also offers its own industry
leading patented IP-MR™ (IETF 6262) adaptive and error-resilient HD
voice codec that has been selected by Tier1 telecom operators to deliver
HD voice to dozens of millions of their subscribers. TeamSpirit uses
H.264SVC and VP8 video codecs. TeamSpirit Voice&Video Conferencing
Engine is an additional server-side module bringing all the power of
TeamSpirit's robust high-quality calling to centralized multi-point
communication scenarios.
TeamSpirit Conferencing powers SPIRIT's VideoMostTM
software for massively multipoint videoconferencing. SPIRIT video
engines are available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and allow users of
smartphones, tablets and notebooks across different OSs to make video
calls from iPhone (News - Alert) to Android smartphones to PC, as well as participate
in HD videoconferencing with automatic quality adaptation to specific
network conditions, screen size and processing power.
About SPIRIT DSP
SPIRIT
DSP is the world's #1 voice and video over IP (VoIP) engines
provider. SPIRIT's innovative carrier-grade voice and video software
platform is used by carriers, OEMs and software developers, web services
and social networks, serving even more VoIP users than Skype - SPIRIT
DSP software platforms serves more than 1 billion users in 100
countries. SPIRIT DSP software powers popular products from global
technology leaders including Apple, Adobe, ARM, AT&T, Avaya, Blizzard,
BT, China Mobile, Dialogic, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Huawei, KT, Kyocera, LG
U+, Microsoft, NEC (News - Alert), Oracle, Polycom, Samsung, Skype, Texas Instruments,
Toshiba, Viber, ZTE, among more than 250 other hardware and software
manufacturers. SPIRIT's direct OEM customers jointly exceed 60 percent
of the global smartphone market share. SPIRIT DSP mainstream product
today is multi-point web videoconferencing software, VideoMost
targeted at enterprise customers in partnership with telcos as SAAS
service. SPIRIT offers its multipoint videoconferencing software
products to carriers and system integrators around the world who are
deploying high-demand cloud videoconferencing and mobile video calling
services under their own brands. Videoconferencing services based on
SPIRIT software help operators to reduce churn, gain extra revenue and
effectively compete against alterative VoIP offerings.
About Reliance Group
Reliance Group is India's largest private sector enterprise, with
businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual
revenues are in excess of US$ 66 billion. The flagship company, Reliance
Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the
largest private sector company in India. Reliance Group is the full
owner of Infotel, a broadband service provider which gained 4G licensees
for operating across India.
TeamSpirit is a registered trademark and IP-MR is a trademark of SPIRIT
DSP. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
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