SPIRIT DSP Receives 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Excellence Award.TeamSpirit[TM] Mobile Honored As Exceptional Mobile Voice Engine Product - twice as efficient as rival products 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 embedded voice and communication software products, announced today that TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center [R] INTERNET TELEPHONY Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. [R] magazine has named TeamSpirit[TM] Mobile Voice Engine as a recipient of the 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY product Excellence Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been a VoIP Authority since 1998[TM]. "We thank both TMC and our customers for choosing and validating the TeamSpirit[TM] Mobile voice engine. SPIRIT is constantly advancing voice technologies ahead of the competition. The TeamSpirit Mobile voice engine allows a soft-phone (Skype-like) application to run on a 200MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. processor while providing the world's best voice clarity and quality. The TeamSpirit Mobile voice engine running on a low power-consuming 200MHz processor enables twice the battery life of any rival product. No other voice engine provider has such an effective solution to offer today," stated Slava Borilin, VP Products at SPIRIT DSP. "SPIRIT has been developing, perfecting and licensing voice technology for embedded devices for over 10 years. The excellence of SPIRIT products has been validated by 200 of the most influential global telecom clients and strong partnerships with industry leaders. In October 2006 SPIRIT and ARM announced a strategic partnership to deliver outstanding multimedia performance to today's mobile digital audio and voice devices, along with extremely low power consumption." TeamSpirit[TM] Mobile has earlier been honored by TMC Labs as a 2006 Innovation Award winner being the most compact mobile voice engine in the world. Today it receives the Excellence Award for delivering breakthrough software, that enables handset OEMs to ready mobile devices for VoIP over WiFi. SPIRIT also enables service providers and operators to run VoIP services on mass-market mobile handsets (even on a low-MHz-processor like ARM 168MHz). This increases the potential target mobile VoIP VoIP Mobile or 'Mobile Voice over Internet Protocol' is the application of Voice over IP technology to mobile handsets. VoIP Mobile requires a mobile handset that supports, at minimum, high speed IP communications. subscriber audience by a factor of 3-4 times and grows the ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless space, by comparing someone's account to the overall average. from VoIP subscribers by allowing longer talk time. TeamSpirit[TM] Mobile also can be enhanced with SPIRIT optimized H.263 and H.264 video codecs. TeamSpirit[TM] Mobile has been already deployed in mobile products recently launched by HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing , Compal, MediaRing, and others. It ensures exceptional voice and quality video while reducing power consumption of a mobile device. SPIRIT product is optimized for devices running under Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. 5.0, Windows Mobile 5.0 SmartPhone Edition, Windows PocketPC 2003, or Windows Smartphone 2003 operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . "The winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award are leaders in VoIP. Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and providing real solutions gained SPIRIT DSP recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY. TeamSpirit[TM] Mobile has excelled in the IP Telephony industry, and most importantly, its customers are willing to offer their testaments of support," said Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY. The full list of the winners is published in the October 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com, or can be found directly online at http://www.tmcnet.com/awards/it-excellence-award-winners-2006.htm. About SPIRIT DSP SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritdsp.com) employs 140 professionals, 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 14 years. For the last 10 years SPIRIT's focus has been communication, speech and VoIP software products. Today SPIRIT counts among its clients Adobe, Agere, ARM, Atmel, Compal, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Kyocera, LG, Marconi, MediaRing, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, 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, Oracle, Paltalk, Panasonic, Philips Semiconductor, Polycom, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. Under these brand names SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SPIRIT DSP is a member of major voice-related developer communities, including Intel(R) Developer Network, ARM(R) Connected Community, Philips Nexperia Partnership, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAP OMAP Office of Medical Assistance Programs (Oregon Department of Human Services) OMAP Open Multimedia Applications Platform (Texas Instruments semiconductor operating system) Developer Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing. About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Minacom. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 55,000. |
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