PCTEL To Use GIPS Technology for Wi-Fi Networking Customers Using Mobiles
Global Mobility Leader Leverages GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile to Optimize User Experience in PCTEL Roaming Client Software
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -/October 20, 2005 - Wi-Fi Technology News/-Global IP Sound (GIPS), the leading provider of embedded voice-processing solutions for the Voice over IP (VoIP) market, announced that PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCTI), a global leader in simplifying mobility, will be using GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile to transform the sound quality offered by its PCTEL Roaming Client family of products.
"Our goal is always to provide the highest level of quality, ease of use and reliability available on the market -- and GIPS's technology is clearly the best solution available today," said Biju Nair, vice president and general manager of PCTEL's Mobility Solutions Group. "We are confident that GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile will allow us to provide the quality levels that our users have come to expect. GIPS and PCTEL have a long history together going back to PCTEL's modem days. We are very excited about embedding the industry-leading technology from GIPS in our IMS/FMC products."
PCTEL's Roaming Client is used by several major wireless carriers worldwide. PCTEL's Roaming Client is designed to manage connectivity on Laptops and PDAs using a wide variety of internal and external wireless devices. Roaming Client VE (Voice Enabled), an IMS-ready software client, extends communications services to dual-mode mobile devices and enables ubiquitous communications over Cellular (GSM/CDMA) or Wi-Fi networks based on the best connectivity available to the device. Several IMS infrastructure providers currently license the PCTEL voice-enabled solution.
Because PCTEL's technology provides support for virtually any Wi-Fi adapter, the company is poised to take advantage of the huge growth anticipated in the VoIP market. For example, the market for hosted IP voice services among U.S. businesses is expected to expand to $7.6 billion in 2008, a compound annual growth rate of over 250 percent from the nearly $60 million in revenues in 2004, according to IDC.
"The ability to maintain consistent voice quality across all IP-enabled communications platforms, including mobile devices, is critical to VoIP technology reaching its full potential over the next several years," said Gary P. Hermansen, President and CEO of Global IP Sound. "GIPS will play a major role in supporting the broadest range of leading technology vendors, from chip manufacturers to mobile technology providers in these efforts. This is another validation of GIPS leadership position as the solution of choice for voice quality solutions."
PCTEL has licensed both the PPC and Symbian versions of VoiceEngine Mobile. The VoiceEngine Mobile solution will allow PCTEL customers and users to experience the highest possible voice quality. The solution gives vendors the unmatched ability to readily implement state-of-the-art, full-featured voice technology and bring their products to market quickly and more affordably.
About Global IP Sound
Founded in 1999, Global IP Sound develops embedded voice processing technologies for real-time communications over packet networks. GIPS SoundWare(TM) provides better than PSTN voice quality and fidelity in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss.
Global IP Sound's world-renowned speech processing and IP telephony experts deliver these solutions to applications developers, gateway and chip manufacturers. Companies using GIPS SoundWare TM) products include Nortel Networks, Skype, WebEx, AOL, EarthLink and other key players in the VoIP market. Global IP Sound is a member of the Intel? PCA Developer Network, the Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partners and Texas Instruments' third party developer network. Global IP Sound has headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Stockholm, Hong Kong and Boston. More information is available at http://www.globalipsound.com.
About PCTEL
PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCTI), which is headquartered in Chicago, is a global leader in wireless broadband solutions. PCTEL's Antenna Products Group designs, distributes, and supports innovative antenna solutions for public safety applications, unlicensed and licensed wireless broadband, fleet management, network timing, and other GPS applications. PCTEL's Mobility Solutions' software tools provide secure, access independent, remote connectivity to the Internet and VoIP capability for converged handsets. PCTEL's RF Solutions' (http://rfsolutions.pctel.com) portfolio of OEM receivers, receiver-based products and interference management solutions are used to measure, monitor and optimize cellular networks. PCTEL protects its leadership position with a portfolio of more than 130 analog and broadband communications, wireless and antenna patents, issued or pending. The company's products are sold or licensed to wireless carriers, wireless ISPs, distributors, system integrators, wireless test and measurement companies, wireless network equipment and handset manufacturers, PC card manufacturers and government agencies. For more information, please visit the company's web site at: http://www.pctel.com.
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