BT Licenses SPIRIT's Audio Software.MOSCOW -- SPIRIT DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive , the world's leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced today that global communication services provider BT plc has licensed SPIRIT's audio technology for concept testing Concept testing is the process of using quantitative methods and qualitative methods to evaluate consumer response to a product idea prior to the introduction of a product to the market. of its next generation telecommunications services to ensure the highest quality audio experience for its customers. Today's communications market is extremely competitive and service providers have to offer different value-added services to their customers in order to stand out in this fast-paced market. BT is the largest wholesale provider of broadband services in the UK, with DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary coverage available to 98.8 percent of the UK's population. "SPIRIT has always been deeply committed to delivering next-generation communication experiences to people worldwide. Providing superb audio quality to global service providers is at the heart of our business," said Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales at SPIRIT DSP. "The recognition of SPIRIT by such an established global telecommunications service provider A Telecommunications Service Provider or TSP is a type of Communications Service Provider that has traditionally provided telephone and similar services. This category includes ILECs, CLECs, and mobile wireless companies. as BT underscores SPIRIT's competence in high-quality audio solutions for telecom and cable operators. SPIRIT has always worked on the cutting edge of global communications technology by anticipating, meeting and exceeding our customers' needs for product efficiency, performance, advanced audio quality and resource consumption." SPIRIT, a global communications technology leader, develops and provides its multimedia software engines (for PC and mobile platforms) to telecom, cable, technology and Internet leaders worldwide. The TeamSpirit[R] product family is a set of easy-to-integrate solutions that deliver crystal-clear sound and video quality to a broad range of communication applications, including enterprise-grade Web conferencing systems, next-generation mobile devices, public IMs, branded soft-phones, set-top-boxes, etc. Thanks to proprietary technology, SPIRIT audio software is optimized to minimize CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. load, memory footprint and power consumptions, while preserving high sound quality and increasing quality of low bit-rate audio. Only SPIRIT has voice and video engines that span all communication devices and all market segments, including mobile OEMs/ODMs, semiconductor vendors, VoIP service providers, software vendors, online gaming and social networking. About BT BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services; local, national and international telecommunications services; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale. In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc's revenue was PS20,223 million with profit before taxation of PS2,484 million. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt. About SPIRIT SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, and has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap See boot. (operating system, compiler) bootstrap - To load and initialise the operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to "boot". From the curious expression "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", one of the legendary feats of Baron von Munchhausen. company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the last 10 years, SPIRIT's focus has been voice and video communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, Arima, ARM, Atmel, Cisco, Compal, deltathree, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing , Huawei, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nortel Networks, NXP NXP Next Experience (formerly Philips Semiconductors) , Oracle, Paltalk, Polycom, Quanta quan·ta n. Plural of quantum. , Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Trinity Convergence, Veraz, and among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SeeStorm is a SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing. TeamSpirit is a registered trademark of SPIRIT DSP. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are registered to their respective owners. |
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