HelloSoft develops method for porting complete VoIP software on a single-RISC processor
(Technology News, 09 Jan 2008 )
By A.S. Bhasker Raj, EDNA Correspondent, Hyderabad
U.S.-based HelloSoft, which has a design center in Hyderabad, A.P. India, has developed a unique method for porting complete VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) software on a single-RISC processor.
The advantages are that the DSP (digital signal processor) is not needed in the design. This RISC-only embedded solution is highly optimized to be power and memory-efficient, and reduces the cost of target handsets through elimination of the DSP.
The embedded solution design has been done based on an in-depth understanding of the underlying hardware, application processors, and high-level and real-time operating systems.
The major impediment in VoIP adoption has been lack of handsets capable of running VoIP applications. This in turn is due to the challenge VoIP solution developers face while porting VoIP on mobile devices: voice quality, limited CPU processing power, increased draining of battery on these handsets and cost of handsets. As a result, efficient embedded design of VoIP applications is essential to address adoption barriers and guarantee mass adoption of VoIP on mobile devices.
The Hellosoft solution can help to implement VoIP adoption on mobile devices. HelloSoft has also developed a highly-optimized IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) client framework that is modular and supports reusable multimedia service enablers such as Registration, IM, Presence, Group List Management, and video sharing.
According to the company, its expertise in embedded designs has led to an efficient and highly-optimized IMS client framework design. The framework is 3GPP standards compliant and is also offered as an SDK for easy integration with third-party applications on mobile devices.
"HelloSoft products being a low-footprint design are extremely cost-effective and power-efficient," said Krishna Yarlagadda, HelloSoft's President and CEO. "Our technology will support today痴 mobile and wireless generation."
"By providing our highly optimized HelloDual-Mode VoIP product for mobile devices, we have demonstrated the benefits of HelloSoft's RISC-based VoIP solution," said Rama Sreeramaneni, HelloSoft's Vice President and General Manager for VoIP. "HelloSoft is changing the mobile handset industry by providing the most optimized VoIP technologies for multi-mode handsets."
Leading OEMs and customers have adopted this product. Among them are: Skype, Accton, HTC, Toshiba, Wistron NeWeb Corp, Panasonic, NeoMagic, Thrane & Thrane, and 5V Technologies.
HelloSoft's partners include Texas Instruments, Intel, Microsoft, Symbian, and a host of IMS/VCC Infrastructure providers such as Personeta, Newstep, Accuris, Aricent, Tango Networks, and Sonus Networks.
Market Potential The market for VoIP on mobile device is around 0.2 percent of the world's cellular users and has the potential to grow to $65 billion, according to Strategy Analytics.
The result of a recently concluded survey further suggests that the market is conducive to mobile VoIP with 14 percent of US and 21 percent of Western European users showing interest in having VoIP on their mobile devices. The market is currently dominated by VoIP service providers but carrier-branded VoIP will take off in the years to come.
