MONTREAL – Toshiba Corporation has joined the G.729 consortium that already includes France Telecom, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Universite de Sherbrooke.
The G.729 is an audio data compression algorithm developed by Sipro Lab Telecom for voice that compresses voice audio in chunks of 10 milliseconds. G.729 is mostly used in VoIP applications for its low bandwidth requirement. The codec is considered to be a breakthrough in the field of digital audio compression, offering opportunities for significant increases in bandwidth utilization to existing telephony and wireless applications.
The G.729 standard and its annexes, an ITU (International Telecommunication Union) approved recommendation, provides the telecommunication industry with a low bit rate speech coding solution. The G.729 algorithm is currently found in equipment and applications such as VoIP gateways, IP phones, videoconferencing and teleconferencing, unified messaging, Internet telephony, and other applications where the quality of service, delay and bandwidth are important.
Sipro and the G.729 consortium have agreed to maintain the current patent pool licensing terms and rates with the added value of Toshiba’s essential patents to ease the continued use of the speech coding solution by the telecommunication industry.
