Telephony World Exclusive: Interview with Spirit DSP’s Slava Borilin
TW editors recently met with Slava Borilin, Spirit DSP’s VP of Products to discuss the company’s progress and product roadmap.
Spirit DSP was founded in 1992 and is the world’s leading provider of voice and video software engines. Spirit works with over 200 global customers and the company’s software can be found in everything from PCs to cell phones to servers.
The fundamental problem that Spirit addresses is that of improving voice and video quality over unmanaged networks. For example, the typical LAN is well managed in terms of resource allocation and other factors that can affect the quality of voice and video delivered over IP. However, quality can drop off sharply when voice and video is provisioned over an unmanaged network such as Wi-Fi. That’s where Spirit comes in.
Spirit’s proprietary algorithms compress and decompress the voice and video while clearing echoes and noises and handling packet losses well beyond capabilities of traditional codecs.
Spirit’s integrated approach also meets the need for customers to optimize platform efficiency and to be cost effective for service providers. Most users today do not pay by the minute, so time on the network is not top of mind. Spirit’s approach is to optimize both the system resource utilization and network payload to minimize hardware costs while delivering reliable performance.
Spirit recently announced the support of MMOGs such as World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online with its TeamSpirit 3.0 Conferencing Engine. World of Warcraft users needed a solution capable of supporting multi-user chat sessions of 50+ people with high voice quality across multiple platforms without affecting gaming performance. Spirit’s solution was selected because it provides the highest voice quality while making efficient use of bandwidth and making low demands on server capacity.
Spirit also announced that Plustek, a Taiwanese manufacturer of telecommunication equipment for enterprises, has licensed its TeamSpirit® 3.0 Conferencing Engine as the core for its corporate conferencing system Plus@com PC2000. Plustek’s new conferencing system combines instant interactive communication functions with live video.
For more information, see Spirit’s website.