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Assets

SPIRIT is the Russian company, the world leader in the development area and licensing of hi-tech software of an operator class for processing and transfer of the broadband speech, video and data in networks with package switching (IP, 3G, WiMAX, LTE). The products SPIRIT ensure functioning of 200 million communication channels in 80 countries of the world.

SPIRIT delivers own software products, services of integration and supports and allows to integrate voice and video conference into any modern and perspective IP services. It gives the chance to operators, developers of the VAS platforms and equipment manufacturers quickly to create and bring new products to the market, to increase the competitiveness, to maintain loyalty of users and to gain an additional income.

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

SPIRIT and its subsidiary company SeeStorm (the developer of the innovative technologies of computer vision) deliver software for creation of multimedia services on the basis of synthetic video with the personalized 3D avatars which allow operators and service providers to expand a range of the services.

The SPIRIT subsidiary company – VideoMost – delivers the software solution for video conferences (VIDEOCONFERENCING) which provides a multi-user voice and video conferencing and also functionality for joint work, directly with the user's PC via the Internet, without the special VIDEOCONFERENCING equipment.

History and performance indicators

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

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

The Russian company Spirit in May, 2018 announced that it took out the patent for i-technology of super-compression of the multimedia information (video, audio, and voice signals) large volume for storage in the storage systems (SS) and/or its transfers on communication channels based on selection of its valuable part.

The patented i-technology allows to save significantly resources on storage and data transmission, to lower requirements to infrastructure of DWH, DPC and data transmission systems, but also to increase efficiency of the analysis and efficiency of decision making.

The method and the device for the patented method of compression of the multimedia information and search of interest objects in it are based on the concept of usefulness/informative value for the person, making the decision (P,MD). According to the set criteria classification of a media stream is made (a valuable part / information noise), in a video flow the key personnel (scenes) is selected, a key word and expressions in voice signals (KWS) are defined or, if necessary, the speech is transformed to the text (STT) or coded by special Voice Storage Codec'om, acoustic events in an audio-part are detected, relevant information is condensed and located in summary form in memory of DWH. Selection of key information and object search for interest require intellectual processing of video, speech and audio of flows and use of methods of search and recognition of relevant objects in the specified flows.

The compact nature of storage of key information defines at its reproduction and the subsequent analysis of the decision-maker specifics of demultiplexing, decoding and synchronization of subflows of video, speech and audio.

Can be potential consumers of i-of technology:

• Telecom operators;
• Organizers of dissemination of information on the Internet;
• Storage systems and Data processing centers;
• Situational centers;
• Developers and suppliers of services of security;
• The vendors specializing in record of negotiations and VKS and also video surveillance;
• Developers and system providers of backup;
• The organizations performing services in fight against crime and terrorism;
• others.

This i-technology can promote faster promotion of the concept, methods and solutions for providing conditions of applications of the anti-terrorist Yarovaya Law and solution of related tasks. And considering that the Yarovaya Law becomes effective this year, the relevance of application of this method of intellectual processing of the multimedia information (diagrams, images, video, the speech, audio, the text) only increases as solves the main objectives at considerable reduction of requirements to infrastructure, economy of financial resources of operators, increase in efficiency of analytics on the basis of the analysis only of a valuable part of information and efficiency at decision making.

2014-2016

Leadership in the rating of VKS developers in Russia

According to the rating of TAdviser VIDEOCONFERENCING Russia the companies Polycom, Cisco and Russian VideoMost from SPIRIT became the most effective producers of systems for in 2016.

Release mobile IOS/Android of clients for video conferences

• 2016 SPIRIT Navigation sells the rights to a product of the large technology company from California
• 2015 Use of VideoMost in a video reception of the governor of the Rostov region
• 2014 Demonstration mobile iOS/Android clients for multi-user video conferences on MWC2014 in To Barcelona
• 2014 SPIRIT released VideoMost 3.0 with Ultra HD

2012: 1 billion users of VoIP-products

• The SPIRIT Navigation company, one of residents of SKOLKOVO FOUNDATION, begins the project on development of systems of navigation in premises

In September, 2012 the president of SPIRIT Andrey Sviridenko said that the total number of users of the program engine of the company for voice transmission and video exceeded 1 billion people. Calculations of the company are based on quarterly royalty reports of clients and open data. It is about the TeamSpirit engine which is built in the equipment and software of the known companies.

"The number of users of software products of SPIRIT are more, than number of VoIP-users of Skype, Google, or Microsoft which are also developers of own VoIP-products and engines", - Sviridenko^[1] says^[1].

The considerable share of this one billion is made by users of devices of Apple. In case of this supplier number of the Russians using development for voice transmission and listening of music of Sviridenko, referring to data of the vendor, estimated at 400 million people.

It is even more clients, than through popular mobile phone manufacturer and tablet computers, SPIRIT received from cooperation with the Chinese telecom operator. At the China Mobile Feiliao softphone working on the Russian engine, the number of users reaches 500 million people. "Intersections are, but not big, - Sviridenko considers. - Very small number Chinese users has expensive iPhone. In total at calculation we put more than 200 million users on such intersections".

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

As for main competitors, Google in 2010 purchased the American VoIP-company GIPS. For September, 2012 the user base of this giant, brings Sviridenko open data, makes about 425 million for Gmail and only 10 million for Voice and Talk services. Besides AOL, Yahoo, ICQ, Mail.ru in the IM and also Webex use the voice engine of Google (including the GIPS engine on the basis of old licenses) that in the amount makes about 300 million users, Sviridenko says.

Microsoft which purchased Skype has 250 million active users of this service. In addition as much again people MSN Messenger and 3 million more Lync use. At the same time Microsoft acts as the client of SPIRIT in the field of a konferensing, and Skype – in the field of video. As the Russian competitor regarding software for a video conferencing (VIDEOCONFERENCING) the TrueConf company acts.

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

"the equipment we do not intend to make VKS yet, - CNews says to Sviridenko about business development. - We will not do own softphone too, it is not our niche, and the product of Video conference is focused on corporate and state clients. Our task in 2012 and 2013 to make ours soft-VKS the standard de facto in Russia in partnership about Rostelecom, other telecom operators, and system integrators".

2011: Release of VideoMost and contract with the Russian Railway for creation of STs

• The contract with the Russian Railway for creation of the all-Russian Situational Center (SC) is signed
• Release of VideoMost, the software product for HD of video conferences based on SPIRIT DSP copper engine

2010: Sales growth in Russia twice

At Spirit the share of Russia in the total amount of revenue is traditionally small, in 2009 it was at the level of 2%. In 2010 she grew up more than twice at the expense of VideoMost, software developer for a video conferencing. That to increase the share of the Russian customers was led that except the built-in software of Spirit was engaged also in applied, the president of the company Andrey Sviridenko says.

2000-2009: Development of the media engine and a number of large projects with the hi-tech foreign companies

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

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

• 1999 The company signs the agreement with Texas Instruments that helped it to become one of leaders in the European and American markets
• 1995-1998 Agreement signature with NEC and Samsung. Accomplishment of several projects for Nortel Networks
• 1994 SPIRIT opens small division in Tokyo. Reorientation to development of navigation and telecommunication systems at the request of NEC Corporation
• 1992 The SPIRIT company is founded by the young graduate of the university Andrey Sviridenko and his fellow student from MSU

Spheres of activity

• Voice and video in networks with package switching on RS, the mobile and built-in platforms
  
• Internet of video conference
• Synthetic video

The solutions SPIRIT include the codecs optimized voice and video – as standard, and own development; effective algorithms shumo-and echo suppression, compensation of losses of packets, delays, trembling of network; and also other technologies providing the best communication quality for the end user.

Scopes of application

• Convergent services: unified communications, Enterprise Mobility, IMS, IP-PBX
  
• Terminal equipment and devices of any type: media backgrounds, netbooks/MID, IP STB, mobile phones with support of WiFi and 3G/4G, conference terminals
  
• Applications for web conferences, joint work, an online game, IMS clients, video softphones on mobile and PC platforms
  
• Web services: social networks, acquaintances, blogs and forums, distance learning, etc.
  

Clients

Direct clients of SPIRIT control more than 60% of the world market of smartphones. Software of SPIRIT provides more than 200 million communication channels in 80 countries of the world.

About SPIRIT DSP

Skype Apple Avaya Ericsson Huawei LG Microsoft Oracle Samsung Toshiba ZTE VideoMost Cisco SPIRIT DSP is the world's voice and video over IP (VVoIP) engines provider. 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 VoIP users than . SPIRIT DSP software platforms serve more than 1 billion users in 100 countries. Over 250 global technology leaders have licensed and/or are delivering products based on SPIRIT DSP software products, including , Adobe, ARM, AT&T, , Blizzard, BroadSoft, BT, China Mobile, Dialogic, , HP, 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. 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. 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.

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