TeamSpirit Video Conferencing

2011

Since 2005 traditional telecom operators tried to block Skype service in the networks to save income from sale of voice minutes which brings them about 80% of all income. However until recently operators did not try to start own competitive VoIP-services. Only since 2011 traditional telecom operators, including AT&T, Korea Telecom, LG U+, China Mobile, etc. began to start VoIP-services under own brand, using voice and SPIRIT DSP video engines.

2012

By the calculations based on quarterly royalty reports of clients of SPIRIT and open data VoIP- in 2012 over 1 billion people more than in 100 countries of the world began to use the products SPIRIT. Voice and TeamSpirit video engines use in the products the companies Apple Adobe AT&T Avaya British Telecom China Mobile Dialogic Ericsson Huawei HTC Korea Telecom LG Microsoft Oracle Polycom Rostelecom Samsung Skype, ZTE and more than 250 other American, European and Asian technology companies.

The market of mobile VoIP continues grow very quickly. Relatively recently on smartphones and tablets there were new VoIP-services from such startups as Viber and WhatsApp. Viber announced 100 million free mobile users of the VoIP-product for smartphones only 18 months later after start of service and without any costs for marketing.

More than 90% of clients of SPIRIT, including such companies as Microsoft, HTC, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, LG U+, Polycom, Rostelecom, Samsung, Texas Instruments, ZTE and even more than 200 others, pay SPIRIT companies of a royalty and quarterly announce number of the used licenses. However some large companies, including Apple, Adobe, AT&T, China Mobile, Huawei, Oracle and Skype or completely redeemed licenses for the products SPIRIT forward, or make the fixed annual payments and do not report on the number of really used licenses that allows to make calculation only on the basis of data from open sources.

Software products of SPIRIT provide a voice communication and reproduction of music in mobile products of Apple. According to the statement of Apple company, to the middle of 2012 the number of the mobile devices working running the operating system iOS (including iPhone and iPad), was more than 400 million pieces.

The voice SPIRIT engine is used by the world's largest telecom operator of China Mobile which announced more than 500 million users of Fetion service (today known as Feiliao) which is based on the SPIRIT engine.

Huawei wins first place in the world among suppliers of telecommunication equipment for telecom operators. Voice and SPIRIT video engines on various mobile platforms (including iOS and Android) and on RS are a part of delivery of equipment rooms and software products of Huawei which are on sale to tens of telecom operators from the different countries of the world and service in total more than 100 million users.

The Chinese, Taiwan and Korean clients of SPIRIT are mobile device manufacturers among whom Acer, Arima, Compal, HTC, iRiver, LG, Quanta, Samsung, ZTE and other companies, together service even more than 100 million people.

In March, 2012 the number of users of the online game The World of Warcraft from Blizzard which the voice SPIRIT engine is built in exceeded 10 million.

The Russian IM service QIP which is also based on the voice SPIRIT engine, declares 15 million users (as of January, 2012).

Besides, components of the program SPIRIT engine are used also in software for joint work of Adobe Connect and in Adobe Flash (starting with version 10.3). The Adobe company purchased the license for the complete voice SPIRIT engine in 2007, but refused later the idea to make of Flash a full-function VoIP-application due to the lack of model of monetization of VoIP for Flash. According to statements of Adobe, the product Flash is installed more than on 1.5 billion computers in the world. At calculation of number of users of SPIRIT computers with the set software of Adobe Flash in which the voice products SPIRIT are used were not considered.

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.

Despite the statement of Google for a possibility of calls on social network Google + (which 150 million people) and Gmail (425 million users), together VoIP-products of the company (Google Voice and Google Talk use) total less than 10 million users.

In 2010 Google purchased public Californian company GIPS which was engaged in development and licensing of the voice engines since 1999. Today 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) AOL, Yahoo (in the amount less than 300 million users).

After purchase of licenses for voice engines in 2005 Microsoft created the engine which is not licensed and also Windows Live Messenger (nearly 250 million users) ensures functioning of the products Microsoft Lync (only 3 million users). Microsoft and Skype companies – independent developers two own (and still not compatible among themselves) voice engines.

Bought by Skype licenses for voice engines in 2003 and 2005, and in 2006 purchased the Californian startup of Camino Networks created by natives of GIPS. After this Skype developed the own engine and is not engaged in its licensing. Today at Skype of 250 million users, less than 10 million from them – paid. By the number of users the SPIRIT platform overtakes Skype. Also Skype licensed a video product at SPIRIT.

Voice and TeamSpirit video engines support RCS-e and VoLTE. The voice TeamSpirit engine includes own adaptive multilayer voice SPIRIT IP-MR™ HD codec (IETF RFC 6262), mechanisms of fight against losses and delays of packets in networks, fight against noise, echo suppression, automatic speed control of data transmission (ARS) for fine tuning under the available throughput width of the channel, and other technologies and also two tens standard protocols of digital telephony and standard voice codecs.

The TeamSpirit video engine includes H.264SVC scaled HD видеокодек, the VP8 video codec, automatic speed control of video transmission (ARS) for fine tuning under the available throughput width of the channel, synchronization of a voice and video, and other technologies. The product TeamSpirit Conferencing includes also multipoint voice and a videokonferensing, signaling of SIP and XMPP, other technologies and is a basis of the corporate VideoMost software product for multipoint web video conferences at the enterprise. SPIRIT video engines are available on Windows platforms, Mac, iOS, Android, etc. allow to perform thus video calls with iPhone both on Android tube, and on RS and also give the chance to owners of different smartphones, tablets and notebooks to participate in one web video conference with the image of HD quality adaptive to width of an Internet channel really available at present.

VideoMost SDK

On the basis of VideoMost SDK service providers have an opportunity in the shortest possible time to start own VKS services, and developers can integrate functionality of videkonferention into the software products, portals and applications.

"VideoMost SDK is a product for licensing on the white-label model that gives to telecom operators, to service providers and software developers an opportunity to instantly offer the users HD of video conference under own brand," – Andrey Sviridenko, the chairman of the board of SPIRIT company comments.

VideoMost supports up to 250 simultaneous interactive video participating in one conference and also provides broadcast of video on 1500 viewers on one server. Inclusion of VideoMost in a portfolio of the services offered by telecom operators to the users allows them to compete and save successfully the subscriber base in the conditions of aggressive approach of OTT-providers, such as Cisco WebEx, Google Hangouts and Microsoft Skype.

VideoMost can be integrated into mobile and web applications for ensuring the best quality of video and audio and effective joint work with documents. VideoMost does business communications more personalized and effective, thanks to video, audio, web broadcastings, an opportunity to exchange documents and files, to conduct surveys and votes and to other tools for joint work.

TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile

TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile is the built-in program engine (SDK) optimized for work with mobile platforms and intended for development of high-quality applications of voice and video conference on the Internet. Use of TeamSpirit gives to developers the chance to concentrate on creation of proprietary applications and allows to bring quickly to the market the new products guaranteeing IP communication of excellent quality. TeamSpirit includes the optimized voice and video codecs, the integrated program components for suppression of an echo and noise and also mechanisms of protection against loss of packets and automatic adaptation to the changing network conditions.

The TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine engine is used in the Russian Video conference software product intended for carrying out multipoint web video conferences on the PC, Mac and iPad. Thanks to the software TeamSpirit engine of Video conference provides a possibility of carrying out video conferences of HD quality in the presence of Internet connection from 512 Kbps.

TeamSpirit Voice & Video Engine engines support RCS and VoLTE. They include voice and video HD quality codecs, tools an echo - and noise reduction, improvement of a voice, the automatic choice of quality of a voice and video (ARS), compensation of loss of packets, adaptation of network, synchronization of a voice and video; and also set of fixed functions of digital telephony and many other things.

In addition to standard ITU-T of G.7xx codecs and H.26X, SPIRIT DSP offers the patented voice codec of own development IP-MR, adaptive and steady against errors, ™ (IETF RFC 6262), demanded by chief operators of communication for providing a voice communication of the highest quality to millions of subscribers. Video the TeamSpirit engine uses codecs: H.264SVC and VP8. A server product of TeamSpirit Voice & Video Conferencing Engine prednazanchen for multipoint conferences.

TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engines support both RCS and VoLTE. The engines include resource-efficient HD voice and video codecs, echo and noise cancelling (AEC), automatic voice and video rate selection (ARS), packets delays mitigation, speech enhancement, network adaptation, voice and video synchronization, a dozen of standard digital telephony functions and more. In addition to a dozen of ITU-T standard G.7xx and H.26x codecs included in the engine, SPIRIT DSP also offers its own industry leading patented IP-MR™ (IETF RFC 6262) adaptive and error-resilient HD voice codec that has been selected by Tier1 telecom operators to deliver HD voice to dozens of millions of their subscribers. TeamSpirit video engine uses H.264SVC and VP8 video codecs. TeamSpirit Voice&Video Conferencing Engine is an additional server-side product bringing all the power of TeamSpirit's robust high-quality calling to centralized multi-point communication scenarios.

TeamSpirit Conferencing powers SPIRIT's VideoMostTM software for massively multipoint videoconferencing. SPIRIT DSP video engines are available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and allow users of smartphones, tablets and notebooks across different OSs to make video calls from iPhone to Android smartphones to PC, as well as participate in HD videoconferencing with automatic quality adaptation to specific network conditions, screen size and processing power.

The patent for the scalable speech HD codec for IP networks

In December, 2012 SPIRIT announced obtaining the patent certificate on the scalable multi-speed broadband HD the speech IP-MR™ codec which is specially designed for use in video softphones and products for carrying out web video conferences. The patent is granted SPIRIT companies on a method of a speech coding, multilevel scalable steady against information losses, for packet switched networks. Sales of the HD SPIRIT IP-MR codec are already used in tens of products for the IP telephony of world leaders and software for video conferences.

The important advantage of the patented IP-MR codec is its automatic adaptation to the changing capacity of a communication channel. Fine tuning of generation rate of a bit flow under the channel provides the highest quality of the transferred speech or audio in the current network conditions. The codec is also steady against losses and delays of voice packets. The built-in mechanism of compensation of losses allows to maintain high quality of the transferred speech even in difficult situations of an overload of network and/or insufficiency of its resources. The transferred packets are structured on degree of importance of information which is contained in them, and for more important data their guaranteed delivery is provided (in QoS networks).

The algorithm of progressive coding put in the patented speech SPIRIT codec allows to increase voice quality without additional load of network. As a result of IP-MR does possible connection of a great number of the participants using channels with different capacity without transcoding, without delays and decline in quality of voice transmission. IP-MR automatically arranges the speed of transmitted data, at the same time the scalability of the codec provides high quality of voice transmission for all participants taking into account the current capacity of each channel. The same principles of coding were used in the international standard, the H.264.SVC video codec, after emergence of IP-MR in the market. IP-MR perfectly works on mobile devices.

Obtaining the patent for IP-MR became one more step in recognition of the SPIRIT codec by the international professional community after in 2011 IP-MR was already standardized by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - the organization dealing with issues of compatibility of protocols and devices on the Internet. The SPIRIT codec was standardized by IETF under the name RFC 6262 that allowed any developer of telecommunication equipment or software to use it so that products of other producers distinguished it, without facing compatibility issues. The SPIRIT IP-MR codec is already used in products for the IP telephony and web conferences released companies AT&T, Blizzard, China Mobile, Dialogic, Huawei, Korea Telecom, LG U+, Maaii, Oracle, Rostelecom and many other world technology leaders.

All advantages of the IP-MR codec are used in scalable cross-platform program voice and the SPIRIT TeamSpirit Voice and Video Engine SDK video engine which does possible fast creation of voice and video applications for all popular platforms, including PC, Mac, Linux, smartphones and tablets on operating systems iOS, Android and Windows Phone. SPIRIT IP-MR is intended for telecom operators and service providers, surely competing with voice HD codecs of Google, Skype and Microsoft companies. Along with ten other supported standard and widespread codecs, IP-MR is also used in the SPIRIT software product for carrying out multipoint web video conferences of VideoMost.

TeamSpirit 3.2 Video Conferencing

TeamSpirit 3.2 Video Conferencing - the server built-in cross-platform software product (the platform, SDK) for application development and services of multipoint video conferences on IP networks and also the consumer Video conference 1.2 software product – for telecom operators (wire and mobile) and SaaS services providers, allowing to start quickly the paid services of multipoint Internet video conferences working on personal computers and smartphones through normal Internet channels.

The communication framework of the operator class TeamSpirit 3.2 Video Conferencing for voice transmission and video on IP networks which is the technology center for any VVoIP (Voice and Video over IP) of applications and services is optimized both for PC, and for mobile devices based on different OS, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, iOS, Symbian and Windows Phone 7.

TeamSpirit Mobile 4.0

TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile 4.0 supports the RCS 5.1 specification, the latest version of the standard of operator IP services advanced by GSMA association, and allows telecom operators and developers to add the functions of high-quality voice and video calls to the RCS compatible services, applications and mobile phones which were more and more demanded among users to short terms. The new engine is also completely compatible to the SIP, IMS and VoLTE specifications.

The TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine engine supporting the RCS standard provides telecom operators and service providers with convenient tools for creation of voice and video applications of HD quality for LTE networks, allowing to bring them to the market rapidly. The product gives to telecom operators the chance to remain more competitive and to timely provide the subscribers with high-quality communication services in LTE networks. Many clients SPIRIT, such telecommunication companies as BroadSoft, Huawei, KT, LG U+, Maaii and Reliance already developed or now perform development of RCS-applications and services based on voice and TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine video engines.

(ITU) approved by the International Telecommunication Union, the RCS 5.1 standard is intended to provide to end users completely compatible communication services having the broadest functionality including instant messaging services (IM), a presence status (presence), joint viewing documents and also voice and video calls through IP. Compliance of the RCS specification allows telecom operators to compete effectively with the providers who appeared prompter in use of innovations by VoIP, to save the existing subscriber base and to attract new clients, offering the high-quality mobile applications with wide feature set working on any smartphones, operating systems and in any mobile networks.

2015

AT&T expanded the license for the engine of video conferences

On December 8, 2015 the Spirit company announced expansion of the license for the communication engine for the product AT&T Conferencing with Cisco WebEx Meeting Center.

AT&T Conferencing with Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms Cloud service provides rapid implementation of the flexible cloud solutions integrating opportunities video audio-and web conferences. Mobile users will be able to participate far off in meetings, to communicate and increase performance of the work only a one click of a key.

Andrey Sviridenko, the chairman of the board of Spirit, said:

- Spirit is proud that within more than 5 years we are a supplier of engines for AT&T, one of the largest world telecom operators. The product SPIRIT VideoMost helps telecom operators, such as AT&T in the USA, China Mobile in China, Korea Telecom in Korea, Reliance in India and Rostelecom in Russia quickly to deploy the services of mobile video conferences on the platform of Video conference and to compete in a segment of corporate communications with software and the Internet the companies as Microsoft and Google which quickly become new telecom operators.