[January 25, 2007] Octasic Forms New Software Subsidiary Tweet Montreal, QC, January 23, 2007 - OCTASIC Inc., the leading provider of innovative voice processing solutions for TDM and IP networks, today announced that it has created a new subsidiary, OctWare Inc. The company provides software solutions for VoIP end-user communication equipment. Optimized for Asterisk (News - Alert)® based IP PBX, softphones, IP & speaker phones, and hand-held devices, OctWare’s voice processing solutions, which include echo cancellation, enable manufacturers to deliver industry-leading sound quality. OctWare’s first product, SoftEcho is currently being shipped. “Octasic (News - Alert) is world-renowned for providing high quality hardware solutions to the telecommunications industry. Leveraging the Octasic corporate brand, OctWare is the right vehicle to promote our software products to the end-user market,” says Michel Laurence, President and CEO, Octasic Inc. “We intend to build and expand the business of OctWare with the same goals, values and dynamics that made Octasic thrive in the infrastructure market.” OctWare operates out of Montreal in the same location as Octasic and will be run under the same management team. The formation of OctWare gives Octasic new capabilities to become even more successful in delivering industry-leading solutions for enhancing the quality of VoIP telephony. About Octasic & OctWare Octasic Inc. develops silicon solutions that deliver exceptional sound quality for network and end-point equipment manufacturers within the wireless, VoP, and TDM segments of the telecommunications industry. Octasic’s innovative algorithms, processors and modules are optimized to perform three key functions: echo cancellation, packetization, and compression. A subsidiary of Octasic, OctWare’s easy to integrate echo cancellation software suite enables manufacturers of end-user communication equipment to deliver industry-leading sound quality. OctWare’s product applications include Asterisk® based IP PBX (News - Alert), softphones, IP & speaker phones, hand-held devices, and IAD. For more information on Octasic and OctWare, please visit our websites at www.octasic.com and www.octware.net. ® Asterisk is a trademark of Digium (News - Alert), Inc. Press Contact: Octasic Natalie Mountain Marketing Communications Manager Tel: (514) 282-8863 Fax: (514) 282-7672 Email: [email protected] Internet Protocol (IP) X IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data in packets over the Internet. I...more Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) X TDM divides transmission channels into time-separated channels. TDM was designed to provide each channel with a fixed amount of bandwidth. The tutorial explains more....more Private Branch Exchange (PBX) X Originally, telephone features were provided by telephone central office switching systems, often called CENTREX. PBX systems emerged as customers wanted to have more calling features and control over...more Voice over IP (VoIP) X A real-time communications system that converts voice into digital packets containing media and signaling data that travel over networks using Internet Protocol....more Compression X There are many types of compression (see CODEC). This tutorial explains IP compression. Payload Compression reduces the size of the data (content). There are many compression techniques which reduce...more [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]