Profitable IP-services with Carrier-grade Voice and Video
by SPIRIT DSP

In today’s difficult economical situation carriers’ customers – both end-users and enterprises – need more feature-rich and cost-effective communication services than a regular phone. VoIP-technology ranks the Top 4 corporate IT-investment for the next 12 month. Attracted by IP-telephony, documents sharing, video calls and social networking features people are going deeper into web services at the expenses of traditional telecommunication providers.

To protect subscribers and market share telcos should quickly embrace a new IP-strategy, moving from traditional two-way into many-to-many IP-communications with a cross-platform, universal and fully integrated voice-video-data-application experience. Carriers’ already proven strategies include Unified Communications, Enterprise Mobility, IPTV, SoIP (Services Over IP), Web 2.0 integration. But even functionality increase and cost-efficiency do not justify call quality deterioration inside IP-services.

Carriers’ smart IP-networks with powerful QoS tools were supposed to secure universal and attractive user-experience with innovative multimedia communication services. In ideal network conditions without delay, packet loss, etc. terminal quality assurance mechanisms were excessive. But multiple Internet-intensive applications, offered by over-the-top service providers, the popularity of file-sharing and real-time video, have introduced unexpectedly heavy network load, making network QoS tools insufficient to guarantee communications quality.

Today end-to-end communications quality can not be achieved with the existing network QoS mechanisms only. This often leads to failures of IP-services in trial stages in a time when the utmost carriers’ concern is the subscriber base.

To support carriers’ efforts in providing end-to-end quality, network QoS must be supplemented by terminal solutions (devices or applications) with smart voice and video processing software inside. But most of traditional OEMs, software and semiconductor vendors have not yet incorporated proper Voice and Video Engines into their products.

SPIRIT DSP, a world’s leading embedded VoIP software vendor, leverages its years of experience in carrier-grade voice and video over IP solutions, which are the core technology for carriers’ IP multimedia services with real-time communication feature. This software complements and amplifies network QoS tools at the terminal side and directly influences service perception by end-users.

SPIRIT’s terminal VoIP solutions take care of each and every IP-call quality, independent from where the call is initiated: from the softphone application on the carrier’s portal, mobile handset or innovative media phone.

Carefully optimized SPIRIT’s cross-platform Voice&Video Engines are already used in the whole range of IP-services by world’s leading telecom operators.

Smart terminals by leading OEMs with integrated SPIRIT’s voice and video solutions for carriers’ IP-services:

Innovative iRiver Wave Home Media Phone by Reigncom with SPIRIT’s Voice&Video Engine Embedded Inside

Reigncom, the owner of iRiver brand, delivers carriers smart innovative multimedia user-terminals for the delivery of various services over IP. Reigncom’s media phone – iRiver Wave Home – is a multimedia communication device for a wide variety of activities at home or in the office. Its mobile companion for personal use – iRiver Wave – is a combination of a personal media player with a VoIP-phone. Carrier-grade voice and video quality of IP-communications via these devices is secured by SPIRIT’s Voice&Video Engine.

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Smart Mobile Terminals by HTC with SPIRIT’s Voice&Video Engine Mobile Inside

Use smart HTC handsets to quickly introduce differentiated video telephony and Enterprise Mobility services, targeted at both end-users and businesses.

Kaon Mega TV STB by Kaon Media with SPIRIT’s Voice&Video Engine Embedded Inside

Kaon Media delivers innovative IP-enabled set-top boxes to power real-time interactive applications in carriers’ IP-TV services. Giving their subscribers the option to multitask, make voice and video calls, share videos/pictures, play games, chat with neighbors, order pizza, etc. – all while watching TV, telecommunication operators care for customer loyalty and increase their revenues.

Reliable server solutions by major system providers with integrated SPIRIT’s voice and video software for carriers’ IP-services:

IMS softswitch with IMS softclient by Veraz Networks with Integrated SPIRIT’s Voice&Video Engine PC
The SPIRIT-enabled Veraz IMS softclient – Veraz Virtu – allows service providers to quickly generate revenue from innovative multimedia services and further increase average revenue per user.
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Unified Communications Solutions by Huawei Technologies with Integrated SPIRIT’s Voice&Video Engine PC
Deploy enterprise-targeted Unified Communications services with Huawei’s UC solutions that fully meet the needs of cross-regional enterprise communications, providing reliable PC-to-PC, PC-to-PSTN and PC-to-mobile calls with the guaranteed voice quality powered by SPIRIT.
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