14 DAY TRIAL // FaceTime is, without a doubt, one of the most exciting features of Apple's iPhone 4, but the company from Cupertino is quite obviously not the only one capable of delivering such a feature, as an outfit called Spirit plans to prove at MWC 2011.
So, the respective company has just announced the fact that, at the telecom-oriented show from Barcelona, Spain, it will demo live multipoint high-definition (HD) videoconferencing between PCs and smartphones, attained via its TeamSpirit Voice&Video Conferencing Engine, a server-client software development kit (SDK) designed with ubiquity of IP communications in mind.
According to Spirit, their solution is comprised of a set of fully interoperable voice and video engines for PCs, smart phones, tablets and web applications, whose main function is to literally turn any user terminal into a video conferencing endpoint, accompanied by VideoMost, a web-based, massively multipoint video conferencing oftware platform, powered by TeamSpirit Engines.
"To satisfy an enormous demand for quality mobile video conferencing, SPIRIT offers a software platform for ubiquitous multipoint video over IP communications for carriers, OEMs and service providers, enabling them deliver IP videoconferencing to their clients faster, and compete better with Skype, Google and WebEx," said SPIRIT's VP Products Slava Borilin.
“We're excited to be demonstrating our TeamSpirit Video&Video Conferencing SDK and VideoMost video conferencing software - both of which help telcos and service providers significantly reduce video hardware infrastructure costs (up to 10 times lower) and offer HD quality video conferencing services to millions of users as a branded solution, leveraging the existing IMS infrastructure, improving ROI and providing a clear path to fast introduction of highly profitable services over LTE networks," the company's rep concluded.
All we can say right now is that this all sounds quite interesting, but we'll eagerly looking forward to the moment when we'll be able to go hands-on with this thing, over at MWC in Barcelona, in around one week's time.