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SPIRIT is a Russian company, the world leader in the development and licensing of high-tech operator-grade software for processing and transmitting broadband speech, video and data in packet switched networks (IP, 3G, WiMAX, LTE). SPIRIT products provide 200 million communication channels in 80 countries around the world.

SPIRIT provides its own software products, integration and support services and allows you to integrate voice and video communication into any modern and promising IP services. This enables operators, VAS platform developers and hardware manufacturers to quickly create and market new products, increase their competitiveness, maintain user loyalty and generate additional revenues.

The development center is located in Moscow, the company's representative offices operate in several countries: Germany, Israel, the Republic of Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, USA, France, Japan.

SPIRIT and its subsidiary SeeStorm (a developer of innovative computer vision technologies) supply software for creating multimedia services based on synthetic video with personalized 3D avatars that allow operators and service providers to expand their services.

SPIRIT's subsidiary, Video conference, provides a software solution for video conferencing (VKS) that provides multi-user voice and video conferencing, as well as functionality for collaboration, directly with the user's PC via the Internet, without special VKS equipment.

History and Performance Indicators

2019: Patent for Neural Network-Based Video Super Compression Technology

On September 30, 2019, Spirit announced that Research VideoMost , a resident Skolkovo company, had received a patent for video compression technology based on, which neuronets is changing the design paradigm for highly efficient video codecs.

According to the analytics, Cisco all IP networks in the world are occupied by video by more than 72% as early as September 2019, and this percentage continues to grow slowly but surely. Due to the significant increase in the volume of transmission storages and video and its quality, all technology companies (including Apple GoogleYouTube,/,,,, Netflix Amazon Facebook Cisco,,,,,,,, Intel Microsoft Huawei Samsung Tencent Alibaba ITU Fraunhofer Society ,/MPEG, etc.) ISO are investing hundreds of millions in the development of dollars technologies of various types of video coding, including the latest codecs of N.266, JVET and AV1.

The traditional approach to the development of video codecs, which made it possible to increase the compression ratio at a tortoiseshell pace - on average by only 50% once every 10 years - almost exhausted itself and reached a fundamental limit. Compression ratio is the main indicator of the efficiency of video transmission and storage with fixed quality.

VideoMost Research is changing the video compression paradigm and developing a video codec based on deep machine learning and neural networks. The concept is based on the idea of ​ ​ significant information degradation of video, as the basis of mega-compression (during coding), and the subsequent restoration of details by a trained neural network (during decoding), for online broadcasting services (video streaming) and video conferencing.

The video codec from VideoMost Research will allow not by percentage, as usual, but to immediately increase the compression ratio several times compared to traditional codecs, which is a revolution for video streaming, video conferencing and DSS services, and is especially important for moving mobile subscribers (video is the most effective advertisement in social networks and instant messengers). With mass application, compression from VideoMost Research will save billions of dollars a year for the entire global industry.

VideoMost Research is independently developing video coding technology and attracting investors to implement the project.

2018: Patent for i-technology of super-compression of multimedia information

• SPIRIT unveils TeamSpirit IM corporate mobile messenger at MWC2018 in Barcelona
• MTS and MEDSI launch digital medicine services based on the VideoMost SDK communication product

The Russian company Spirit in May 2018 announced that it had received a patent for the i-technology of super-compression of multimedia information (video, audio, and voice signals) of a large volume for storage in data storage systems (DSS systems) and/or its transmission through communication channels based on the allocation of its valuable part.

Patented i-technology can significantly save storage and transfer resources, reduce requirements for DSS infrastructure DPC , and data transfer systems, but also increase analysis efficiency and decision-making efficiency.

Method and device for patented method of multimedia information compression and search in it objects of interest are based on concept of usefulness/value of information for decision maker. According to the given criteria, the multimedia stream (valuable part/information noise) is classified, key personnel (scenes) is selected in the video stream, keywords and expressions in speech signals (KWS) are determined, or, if necessary, speech is transformed into text (STT) or encoded by a special Voice Storage Codec, acoustic events are detected in the audio part, relevant information is multiplexed and compressed into the DSS memory. Highlighting key information and searching for objects of interest require intelligent processing of video, speech and audio streams and the use of methods for searching and recognizing current objects in specified streams.

The compact nature of key information storage determines during its reproduction and subsequent PCL analysis the specifics of decompression, decoding and synchronization of video, speech and audio substreams.

Potential consumers of i- technologies can be:

• Telecom operators;
• Organizers of information dissemination on the Internet;
• Storage and Data Centers;
• Situational centers;
• Developers and providers of security services;
• Vendors specializing in recording negotiations and VKS, as well as video surveillance;
• Developers and suppliers of backup systems;
• Organizations providing services to combat crime and terrorism;
• others.

This i-technology can contribute to the faster promotion of the concept, methods and solutions to ensure the conditions for the application of the anti-terrorist "Spring Law" and the solution of related problems. And considering that the "Spring Law" comes into force this year, the relevance of the use of this method of intelligent processing of multimedia information (graphics, images, video, speech, audio, text) only increases, as it solves the main problems with a significant decrease in infrastructure requirements, saving operators' finances, increasing the efficiency of analytics based on the analysis of only a valuable part of information and efficiency in making decisions.

2014-2016

Leadership in the ranking of VKS developers in Russia

In accordance with the TAdviser rating AEROSPACE FORCES Russia , companies and Russian Polycom Cisco from Video conference SPIRIT became the most efficient manufacturers of systems for 2016.

Release of mobile iOS/Android clients for video conferencing

• 2016 SPIRIT Navigation Sells Product Rights to Major California Tech Company
• 2015Use of VideoMost in the video reception of the Governor of the Rostov Region
• 2014 iOSAndroid Mobile/Client Demonstration for Multi-User Video Conferencing on MWC2014 in To Barcelona
• 2014 SPIRIT released VideoMost 3.0 with Ultra HD

2012:1 billion VoIP users

• SPIRIT Navigation, one of the residents of the SKOLKOVO Foundation, begins a project to develop indoor navigation systems

In September 2012, SPIRIT President Andrei Sviridenko said that the total number of users of the company's software engine for voice and video transmission exceeded 1 billion people. The company's calculations are based on quarterly customer royalties and open data. We are talking about the TeamSpirit engine, built into the equipment and software of well-known companies.

"The number of users of SPIRIT software products is greater than the number of VoIP users of Skype, Google, or Microsoft, who are also developers of their own VoIP products and engines," Sviridenko says^[1].

A significant share of this billion are device users. In Apple the case of this supplier, the number of Russians using the development of Russians to transmit voice and listen to music Sviridenko, referring to the data of the vendor himself, was estimated at 400 million people.

SPIRIT received even more customers than through the popular phone and tablet computer manufacturer from cooperation with the Chinese telecom operator. The soft background of China Mobile Feiliao, which runs on the Russian engine, has up to 500 million users. "There are intersections, but not big ones," Sviridenko said. - A very small number of Chinese users have an expensive iPhone. In total, when calculating, we laid down more than 200 million users for such intersections. "

Also a major SPIRIT client in Asia is Huawei, in 100 million devices of which TeamSpirit is installed for voice and video transmission. In addition to the listed customers, a number of companies use it, for example, AT&T for web conferences, Adobe for Connect and Flash, Blizzard for the game World of Warcraft, etc.

As for the main competitors, Google in 2010 bought the American VoIP company GIPS. As of September 2012, the user base of this giant, Sviridenko cites open data, is about 425 million for Gmail and only 10 million for Voice and Talk services. In addition, the Google voice engine (which includes the GIPS engine based on old licenses) is used by AOL, Yahoo, ICQ, Mail.ru in their IMs, as well as Webex, which in total amounts to about 300 million users, says Sviridenko.

Microsoft, which bought Skype, has 250 million active users of this service. In addition, the same number of people use MSN Messenger and another 3 million Lync. At the same time, Microsoft itself acts as a SPIRIT client in the field of conferencing, and Skype in the field of video. TrueConf is a Russian competitor in terms of video conferencing software (VKS).

Sviridenko notes that now there is no single VoIP standard in the world: "Microsoft has supported the W3C RTC-web protocol, incompatible with Google, the Skype and Lync engines are still incompatible, Apple products are also incompatible with Microsoft and Google solutions."

"We do not intend to produce VKS equipment ourselves yet," says CNews Sviridenko about business development. - We will not do our own soft background either, this is not our niche, and the Video conference product is aimed at corporate and state clients. Our task in 2012 and 2013. make our software-VKS the de facto standard in Russia in partnership with Rostelecom, other telecom operators, and system integrators. "

2011: Release of VideoMost and contract with RZD for creation of SC

• A contract was signed with Russian Railways for the creation of the All-Russian Situation Center (SC)
• Release of VideoMost, a software product for HD video conferencing based on the SPIRIT DSP copper engine

2010: Sales growth in Russia by 2 times

Spirit traditionally has a small share of Russia in total revenue, in 2009 it was at the level of 2%. In 2010, it more than doubled due to the "Video Bridge," a developer of video conferencing software. The fact that the share of Russian customers was increased by the fact that, in addition to embedded software, Spirit was also engaged in applied software, says the president of the company Andrei Sviridenko.

2000-2009: Media engine development and a number of major projects with high-tech foreign companies

• 2007-2010 SPIRIT engines are used in LG, HTC, iPhone, Samsung products . Cooperation with ARM, licensing of DSPG software. A number of contracts with ST Micro
• 2003-2005 SPIRIT DSP develops a media engine and signs contracts with Oracle and Adobe
• 2000-2002 Start of participation in the development of a communication system for the Government of the Russian Federation

1992-1999: Foundation of the company and commencement of work in the foreign market

• 1999 The company enters into an agreement with Texas Instruments, which helped it become one of the leaders in the European and American markets
• 1995-1998 Signing contracts with NEC and Samsung. Performing multiple projects for Nortel Networks
• 1994 SPIRIT opens a small unit in Tokyo. Reorienting to the development of navigation and telecommunications systems at the request of NEC Corporation
• 1992 SPIRIT was founded by a young university graduate Andrei Sviridenko and his classmate from Moscow State University

Areas of activity

• Voice and video in packet switched networks on PC, mobile and embedded platforms
  
• Internet video conferencing
• Synthetic video

SPIRIT solutions include optimized voice and video codecs - both standard and proprietary; efficient algorithms for noise and echo cancellation, packet loss compensation, delays, network jitter; as well as other technologies that provide the best communication quality for the end user.

Applications

• Converged Services - Unified Communications, Enterprise Mobility, IMS, IP-PBX
  
• Terminal equipment and devices of any type: media phones, netbooks/MID, IP STB, mobile phones with WiFi and 3G/4G support, conference terminals
  
• Web conferencing, collaboration, online gaming, IMS clients, video softphones on mobile and PC platforms
  
• Web services: social networks, dating, blogs and forums, distance learning, etc.
  

Clients

SPIRIT direct customers control more than 60% of the global smartphone market. SPIRIT software provides more than 200 million communication channels in 80 countries around the world.

About SPIRIT DSP

SPIRIT DSP is the world's voice and video over IP (VVoIP) engines provider. VoIP Skype SPIRIT's innovative carrier-grade voice and video software platform is used by carriers, OEMs and software developers, web services and social networks, serving more users than. SPIRIT DSP software platforms serve more than 1 billion users in 100 countries. Apple Adobe AT&T Avaya Ericsson HP Huawei LG Microsoft Oracle Samsung Toshiba ZTE Over 250 global technology leaders have licensed and/or are delivering products based on SPIRIT DSP software products, including , , ARM, , , Blizzard, BroadSoft, BT, China Mobile, Dialogic, , , HTC, , Korea Telecom, Kyocera, U+, , NEC, , Polycom, Reliance, , Skype, Texas Instruments, , Viber,. SPIRIT's direct OEM customers jointly exceed 60 percent of the global smartphone market share. VideoMost SPIRIT DSP mainstream product today is multi-point web videoconferencing software targeted at enterprise customers in partnership with telcos as SAAS service. SPIRIT DSP 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. Cisco Videoconferencing services based on SPIRIT DSP software help operators to gain extra revenue and effectively compete against Microsoft Lync and Webex offerings for the enterprise.

Links

International website

Russian website