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Sipro Announces the Launch of the G.729.1 Standard Patent Pool
Montreal, Canada, January 12, 2009 – Sipro Lab Telecom (Sipro) is pleased to announce the conclusion of a joint patent pool for the much anticipated G.729.1 ITU-T wideband recommendation. The group of telecom leaders composed of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, France Telecom SA, Koninklijke KPN N.V, , Ltd, Mindspeed Technologies, Inc, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Panasonic Corporation, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft and VoiceAge Corporation have joint their efforts to facilitate and accelerate market adoption.
The patent pool has put in place an essentiality evaluation process and determination of patents that are essential to G.729.1 to which these ten (10) major contributors subjected themselves, in order to provide users with convenient, fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory access to a portfolio of essential worldwide patents under a single license agreement. Other patent owners wishing to join the pool are invited to submit their patents for evaluation.
Special Limited Time Offer!
To welcome licensees, the patent owners are pleased to announce a 15% discount to all licensees signing a G.729.1 patent pool license agreement before June 30, 2009. For more details, please contact Sipro or visit our website.
About G.729.1
ITU-T G.729.1 recommendation is a scalable wideband speech and audio codec standard specifically designed to meet the market need for a smooth transition from today’s predominantly narrowband (300-3400 Hz) VoIP systems to wideband VoIP, which provides more than twice the encoded bandwidth (50-7000 Hz) and correspondingly improved sound quality – delivering greater intelligibility and comfort to users. The main benefits are the interoperability, the scalability, the robustness to frame errors, the flexibility and the low-delay version available.
G.729.1 was specifically designed to be backward compatible with the widely adopted G.729 narrowband speech codec. G.729, standardized in 1995, delivers toll-quality speech at the low bit rate of 8 kbps, with moderate transmission delays and processing requirements. As a result, G.729 has been widely deployed in applications like VoIP, web collaboration tools, and visual telephony, where quality, delay, and bandwidth are important.
About Sipro Lab Telecom
Sipro Lab Telecom is patent pool administrator and licensing agent for the G.729, G.723.1, G.729.1 and G.711.1 patent pools, with more than 10 years experience in patent pool creation and management for standard speech and audio coding technologies. Sipro’s hallmarks are solid business ethics in managing multiple patent pools, extensive knowledge of the telecommunications market, and a proactive sales approach that contributes to optimum timeframes for the conclusion of license agreements.
Sipro actively contributes to the spread of the technologies we represent through our services to partners and customers. Sipro is a privately owned Canadian corporation, created in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec.
For more information:
Nathalie Beaudoin
Director of Licensing
Sipro Lab Telecom Inc.
750 Lucerne Road, Suite 200
Montreal, Quebec
H3R 2H6 CANADA
Phone: +1-514-737-5874
Fax: +1-514-737-2327
Email: info@sipro.com
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