Montreal, Quebec, January 17, 2006 – Phone calls just got a lot more colorful with Octasic’s OCT6100 Background Music Solution. This new ‘colorful calling’ feature allows callers to select desired background music, sound effects or even karaoke and seamlessly replace the actual background sound in their phone conversation.
With the explosive popularity of features like ringback tones, which first gained popularity in Asia and is now catching on worldwide, callers are looking for new ways to further personalize or add a little ‘color’ to their calling experience – in both mobile and fixed calls. This latest service offering requires unique voice processing to remove the background noise while preserving the voice. The OCT6100 is one of the only complete solutions for delivering this type of voice processing.
“Once again, Octasic is able to deliver the latest market-driven enhancements to its customers.” explains Frédéric Bourget, Octasic Director of Product Management. “Existing customers currently using the Octasic OCT6100, can now incorporate this feature, with minimal integration effort. The ability to integrate new features through software upgrades ensures that equipment designed with Octasic devices will continue to deliver the most complete feature set on the market.”
Working with Chinese companies such as EjetCom, Octasic developed the algorithms necessary for offering ‘colorful calling’ in existing equipment. Maintaining the quality of the voice and naturalness of the call were high priorities in the development of this feature. Due to the nature of the OCT6100 processor this feature can be provided with no impact on the capacity or quality of the existing features of the device such as Echo Cancellation, Tone detection and Automatic Level Control among others.
“Other voice quality enhancement solutions available on the market were unable to properly distinguish the human voice on a call,” explains Mr. Tony Wang, VP of EjetCom. “With Octasic’s algorithm, not only is it suitable for professional conferencing applications, but also fulfils the Background Music feature application as well – enabling us to provide the superior quality value added features our customers demand.”
As value added services become a more important part in carrier revenue generation, the need arises for new and exciting services and applications. With equipment designed using Octasic devices, telecommunication service providers can construct a new ‘colorful calling’ service targeting general subscribers, attracting youth and teen demographics while retaining existing subscribers with superior over all voice quality.
About the OCT6100
A pioneer in the development of innovative silicon processors, Octasic’s OCT6100 family of devices is one of the industry’s most widely used voice quality processor. The OCT6100 builds upon Octasic’s proven industry-leading density, power and cost devices, while assuring the most innovative technology for voice processing. Powered by Octasic’s unique algorithms, the OCT6100 family of devices offers extensive Voice Quality Enhancement features while requiring minimal integration, thereby simplifying design and reducing time-to-market.
About EjetCom
EjetCom designs, develops, supplies and supports affordable, high performance telecom value-added services platforms. Ejet’s ISX4000 universal application platform is a carrier-class , scalable, high performance telecom applications platform, which integrates advanced DSP functions and signaling capabilities, connecting both PSTN and VOIP networks，enabling both fixed and mobile operators and providers to rapidly deploy new services on their existing and next generation network.
For additional information, please contact your local sales representatives, or visit www.ejetcom.com.
About Octasic Semiconductor
Octasic is a fabless semiconductor company designing, marketing, and supporting best-in-class silicon solutions that deliver exceptional voice quality for network equipment providers within the wireless, VoP, and TDM segments of the telecommunications industry. Octasic’s innovative approach involves processors that are optimized to perform key voice functions such as carrier-grade echo cancellation, packetization, and compression. For more information about Octasic and its products, please visit www.octasic.com.
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