As voice moves increasingly to IP service delivery networks, voice technologies are moving to improve quality. Here's a release about how Interwise is implement technology from SPIRIT DSP to maintain high voice quality standards.

Interwise licensed SPIRIT voice technology

Moscow (Russia) - October 4, 2007, SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritdsp.com), the world's leading provider of embedded voice & video software products, today announced that Interwise, a provider of voice, web and video conferencing software products for the enterprise, has licensed SPIRIT voice technology to ensure the highest voice quality in its Interwise Connect application for both server and client.

Interwise Connect is a core product of Interwise, many times awarded for its exceptional features. It combines voice, web and video conferencing in one product providing unlimited conferencing and collaboration time to all users in a company for one-time fixed, affordable license fee. Designed for the needs of mid- to large-sized enterprises, Interwise Connect differs from other conferencing products by delivering an enterprise-class application that transforms voice, web and video conferencing from multiple tools into one core integrated communication product for everyone in an enterprise, like email.

SPIRIT’s Voice technology was integrated by Interwise into both client and server, greatly enhancing voice quality for both VoIP and PSTN callers. The enhancement focus was to provide excellent acoustic and line echo, and noise cancellation, together with auxiliary functionality for rapid development of popular hands-free speakerphone devices.

SPIRIT Conferencing Engine accumulates all known today voice technologies to deliver the best quality in enterprise-grade conferencing. The Engine is a complete PC-based voice processing solution for VoIP conferencing applications which enables enterprise-grade collaboration software and communication hardware vendors to rapidly deploy multi-point conferencing solutions with superior wideband voice quality, packet loss robustness, scalability and security. SPIRIT Conferencing Engine is also optimized for excellent Video support.

Slava Borilin, SPIRIT VP Products, said: “The win of Interwise turned out to be another success story for SPIRIT in enterprise conferencing market along with previous deals with Adobe, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Radvision and others.“

About SPIRIT
SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, and has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the last 10 years SPIRIT's focus has been voice, audio, video and data communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, Arima Communications, ARM, Atmel, Cisco, Compal, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Interwise, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks, NXP, Oracle, Paltalk, Panasonic, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. 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 ARM® Connected Community, Analog Devices Collaborative, Intel® Developer Network, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAP Developer Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is a SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.

About Interwise
Interwise is the leader in delivering unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing for the enterprise. Interwise’ fixed price / unlimited usage business model and enterprise-class technology combine to make it easy for companies to deliver conferencing and collaboration as a core business application, replacing multiple products with a single, integrated solution that can reduce overall conferencing expenses by 50 per cent or more. More importantly, our unique capabilities drive innovation, corporate agility and operational effectiveness by enabling customers to give unlimited conferencing and collaboration to every employee in the enterprise, like email. Interwise sells to and supports customers globally through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers, communications service providers, and network-oriented systems integrators.