Internet Group (iG) Provides Enhanced VoIP Quality With GIPS Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Global IP Solutions (GIPS), the leading provider of media processing solutions, has been selected by iG, one of Brazil's leading internet providers, to ensure that VoIP calls through to traditional PSTN and cellular phone lines are of the highest quality.

According to Alex Rocco, iG's Director of Marketing, "the partnership with GIPS will help us to improve the quality of our services with BIE technology. Now we can offer our users a higher quality and the most modern service of iG's VoIP products like the traditional PSTN, cellular phone lines and network without those QoS technical problems," he said.

iG has integrated GIPS Border Interface Engine solution (BIE) enabling iG consumers to communicate clearly from their PCs, removing the technical and QoS difficulties inherent with a hand-off to the PSTN and cellular networks.

"With this technology we will have greater tolerance in hosted VoIP environments, such as networks with high latency, packet loss or in shared networks with transversal nat," declares Edson Brandi, iG Products Director.

"iG, one of Brazil's most important internet providers strives to be the best and most complete telecommunication provider for its clients," said GIPS' Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Roar Hagen. "GIPS Border Interface Engine is providing iG with high-class VoIP technology allowing it to offer clients the best quality and most reliable service to over 5 million users."

BIE is an advanced server-based transcoding and de-jittering solution that can be used in a mediation device, gateway or monitoring application. By utilizing BIE, iG is improving call quality by providing robust and delay saving algorithms closer to the border of their ISP network.

About iG

iG is the absolute leader in internet home access in Brazil and belongs to the Internet Group -- Brasil Telecom's internet operation that involves iBest and BrTurbo. Together, they have 1.3 million broad band subscribers and almost four million clients of dial access, so there are more than eight million e-mail accounts. Their home pages receive more than 20 million unique visitors per month and 11.4 million of this number are residential visitors. The other 8.6 million people access internet from the office, school, universities and public places.

About Global IP Solutions

GIPS provides best-in-class voice and video in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss for service providers, enterprises, applications developers, network equipment, gateway and chip manufacturers. GIPS' customer list include Nortel, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo!, AOL, EarthLink and other key players in the VoIP market. GIPS is a member of the Intel(R) PCA Developer Network, Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partner Program and Texas Instruments' third party developer network. GIPS is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Stockholm, Boston and Hong Kong. More information at http://gipscorp.com

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