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Toronto, Canada –– GAO Research Inc. (www.gaoresearch.com), a leading provider of embedded communication software, announced today that it has licensed its embedded modem software solution to CEIVA Logic Inc. (www.ceiva.com) for use in its patented connected digital photo frame.
In order to provide connectivity for the device's automatic online photo updates, the suite of GAO modules chosen by CEIVA includes ITU-T standards V.34 compliant softmodem, V.42 error correction software, as well as various telephony modules and Linux drivers. The software allows the digital photo frame to be plugged into an existing phone line and silently dial a local number each night to pick up or send new photos, without interruption to one's phone service, and without charges to the line.
"This is a typical scenario we encounter with many of our customers," said Dr. Frank Gao, president of GAO Research Inc. “By replacing the modem chipset in their design with GAO's highly optimized software solution, CEIVA is able to achieve significant cost savings."
Jim Sepe, Chief Technology Officer, at CEIVA logic said, "When CEIVA decided to upgrade our connected digital photo frames and switch from a hardware to a software based solution, we needed to ensure we retained functionality and remained highly competitive. Our choice of GAO’s software modem solution allowed us to do both." Sepe also commented that, “CEIVA is very pleased with the results. The optimization and performance of GAO software far exceeded our expectations and their after sales support is excellent.”
GAO’s embedded soft-modem and fax packages include a full range of ITU-T compliant modem and fax data pumps and protocols. Modem data pumps include V.92, V.90, V.34, V.32bis/V.32, V.22bis/V.22, V.21, and other standards. Fax data pumps include V.34, V.17, V.29, V.27ter, and V.21 ch.2. GAO’s embedded modem and fax software are fully optimized to run on DSPs and microprocessor platforms including Texas Instruments C5000 and C6000 series, Analog Devices ADSP 218x and Blackfin, ARM7, ARM9/E, and Pentium among others.
About GAO Research Inc.
GAO Research Inc., www.gaoresearch.com, is the market-leader in embedded communication software products for DSP & Microprocessor environments, and one of the fastest growing companies in Canada. GAO’s embedded communications modules are used by telecommunications, semiconductor, and electronics manufacturers worldwide. GAO offers its VoIP & FoIP modules, V.92 & V.90 with all fallback soft-modems, Super G3 & G3 fax software and G.7xx speech codecs on the broadest range of DSPs and microprocessors. GAO’s customers include CEIVA, Motorola, Samsung, Alcatel, Philips, Telular, Telcordia, OKI, Marconi, Agilent, Siemens, Infineon, AudioCodes, ABB, LG Electronics, Toshiba and other global customers.
About CEIVA Logic, Inc.:
CEIVA Logic, Inc., www.ceiva.com, is the inventor of the digital photo frame and the provider of the world’s first and only connected Digital Photo Frames™. CEIVA enables families and friends to display endless slideshows from camera memory cards via the frames built-in card reader and automatically receive photos sent by camera phone or through an online CEIVA account. Offering world-class personalized customer care, CEIVA Digital Photo Frames and the CEIVA PicturePlan® service is the only digital photo solution to allow effortless display, secure storage and sharing of digital photos. CEIVA products are available at ceiva.com and at select retailers nationwide.
Toronto, Canada – February 22, 2006 – GAO Research Inc., (www.gaoresearch.com) a leading provider of embedded communication software, is supplying its suite of modem, fax, and telephony software to power the next generation of Telular Corporation’s (www.telular.com) Fixed Cellular Terminals (FCTs). Telular selected GAO’s modem and fax software, including V.90 soft modem technology, which provides downstream speeds of up to 56 kbps, and V.17 fax with a bit-rate of up to 14.4 kbps.
Telular’s wireless terminals are further enabled through GAO’s caller-ID, DTMF, call progress, and G.168 line echo cancellation software. By replacing their chipset-based fax and data modems with GAO’s DSP-based software solutions, Telular is able to achieve significant cost savings and reduce product PCB size, while facilitating easy upgrades for their new Fixed Wireless Terminal products.
Telular’s Fixed Cellular Terminals enable wireless connectivity for standard telephones, fax machines, and computer equipment across a wide range of applications. From mobile users not adequately served by cellular handsets to rapid cellular service deployment, Fixed Cellular Terminals from Telular provide voice, fax, and data transmission with superior reception using existing cellular network technologies
"Our optimized modem software uses minimal footprint, which reserves DSP resources for other memory intensive applications "said Dr. Frank Gao, president of GAO Research Inc.” This has allowed Telular to drop their original solution that employed a modem chipset, and has now implemented modem functions directly on a Texas Instruments C5502 DSP. Our embedded communication subsystems allow for functional upgrades through software, which ensure quick design turnaround and performance improvements, while achieving a reduction in volume manufacturing costs."
"After careful consideration we selected GAO Research as our provider because of their experience, their leading product portfolio in the embedded communication software market, and their strong reputation for quality and support," said Daniel Giacopelli, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Telular Corporation. "Not only were we able to reduce the overall cost and PCB size by replacing the fax and modem hardware with GAO’s software, but by utilizing GAO’s solutions we had enough remaining DSP resources for GAO to port the remaining control functions from the existing host processor to the more economical DSP. This eliminates the need for a host processor altogether and further reduces hardware costs and circuit size all which will prove beneficial to our customers. The level of optimization and performance of GAO software has far exceeded our expectations."
GAO’s embedded soft-modem and fax packages includes a full range of ITU-T compliant modem and fax data pumps and protocols. Modem data pumps include V.92, V.90, V.34, V.32bis/V.32, V.22bis/V.22, V.21, and other standards. Fax data pumps include V.17, V.29, V.27ter, V.21 ch.2. GAO’s embedded modem and fax software are fully optimized to run on DSPs and microprocessor platforms including Texas Instruments C5000 and C6000 series, Analog Devices ADSP 218x and Blackfin, ARM7, ARM9 , and Intel XScale and Pentium among others.
About GAO Research Inc.
GAO Research Inc. is the market-leader in embedded communication software products for DSP & Microprocessor environments, and one of the fastest growing companies in Canada. GAO ’s embedded communications modules are used by telecommunications, semiconductor, and electronics manufacturers worldwide. GAO offers its VoIP & FoIP modules, V.92 & V.90 with all fallback soft-modems, Super G3 & G3 fax software and G.7xx speech codecs on the broadest range of DSPs and microprocessors. GAO’s customers include Motorola, Lucent, Alcatel, Qualcomm, Philips, Terayon, Telcordia, OKI, Marconi, Siemens, Infineon, Mitsubishi, Intercom, LG Electronics, Toshiba and other global customers.
About Telular Corporation:
Telular Corporation, the global leader in the cellular fixed wireless telecommunications industry, designs, develops, manufactures and markets Cellular Fixed Wireless Terminal (FWT) products that enable a standard telephone, fax, computer modem or security alarm system to operate wirelessly over the cellular network for either primary or back-up communications. Based on its proprietary RJ-11-to-Cellular interface technologies, Telular provides the capability to bridge landline telephone equipment with cellular-type transceivers used in wireless communication networks in the cellular and PCS bands. Telular Corporation has been a publicly held company since 1994. Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol "WRLS."
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Toronto, Canada – January 3, 2006 – GAO Research Inc.,(www.gaoresearch.com) a leading provider of embedded communication software, has supplied its V.92 modem software to power a new, state-of-the-art video phone as part of a large-scale migration towards Voice over IP by a leading Telecommunications Service Provider (currently under NDA) operating in over 15 countries. Connecting at speeds of up to 56 kbps, GAO's V.92 modem provides the high-speed connection required for simultaneous real-time video and speech, without the use of expensive broadband networks. The collaborative integration efforts between GAO Research Inc., and GAO's embedded design service partners, resulted in unprecedented real-time video and speech quality over PSTN. The cutting-edge videophone is now slated for wide deployment in many parts of the world. The phone is available as two designs: One with TI's C64xx DSP core (including DM64x with video support) as well as another version for Intel's Xscale. Both versions include GAO's v.92 softmodem supported on the TI and Intel architecture.
"We are extremely pleased to have our modem software integrated into these new video phone designs intended for global deployment,” said Dr. Frank Gao, President of GAO Research Inc. “The lack of a broadband network is still a bottleneck for the evolution of multimedia telecommunications to the general public in many countries. Our high performance V.92 modem takes advantage of ubiquitous and affordable POTS lines. Modem software and optimization has always been at the core of our research and development, and this expertise came through for our Telecom Service Provider customer during this project. The performance of this video phone has surpassed the expectations of many of its end-users."
GAO's softmodems have driven profitability and significantly lowered volume manufacturing costs for its OEM customers without compromising on performance. GAO makes this possible through its long standing DSP and microprocessor code optimization expertise leading to efficient, small-footprint data pump code.
The ITU-T V.92 standard employs pulse code modulation (PCM) in the upstream direction, supplying a data rate of up to 48 kbps; a significant improvement over V.90. The earlier V.90 standard uses the same upstream modulation as V.34 for a limited speed of 33.6 kbps. This improvement proves most useful in applications that involve large data transfers from user to ISP, such as VoIP. GAO's V.92 soft modem features include Modem-on-Hold, and quicker connection time over previous standards, achieved through faster handshaking. Connection time for V.92 is up to 50% quicker than V.90 for buffered connections.
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Toronto, Canada – September 29th, 2005 – GAO Research Inc., (www.gaoresearch.com) a leading provider of embedded communication software, released an online demo of its G.729AB codec, available at http://www.gaoresearch.com/products/speechsoftware/other/g729.php. This real-time demo allows customers to sample the high fidelity of GAO's G.729AB algorithm. Users may supply their own WAV file, and can adjust simulation parameters such as network jitter and packet loss. GAO's G.729AB vocoder is off-the-shelf available and fully optimized for popular platforms that support Microsoft's WinCE and WinCE.Net such as ARM9, Intel's Xscale and Pentium processors and TI's OMAP among others.
“Today's VoIP devices all support the ITU-T G.729AB codec, making it the most sought after speech processing algorithm by our customers.” said Dr. Frank Gao, president of GAO Research Inc. “Customers always demand to sample the quality of a voice codec before they make the purchase. We want to present a convenient method for our customers to accurately evaluate the fidelity of our codec under simulated network conditions. Customers can expect very similar results when our algorithm is implemented on their system.”
GAO's G.729AB codec is based on the Code Excited Linear Prediction Model (CELP) and Conjugate-Structure Algebraic CELP (CS-ACELP). Some applications for GAO's G.729AB vocoder include visual telephony, wireless communications, and digital satellite communication systems. The G.729A ITU-T standard for voice coding compresses 8 kHz linear audio signals and encodes them for transmission at 8 Kbps with reduced complexity compared to G.729. The ITU-T G.729B & G.729AB standard is a silence compression scheme for G.729 & G.729A, optimized for terminals conforming to Recommendation V.70.
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Toronto, Canada – Feb 18, 2005 – GAO Research Inc., (www.gaoresearch.com) a leading provider of embedded communication software, upgrades its T.38 Fax
Relay software. The new version will not only support Group 3 fax, it will also support V.34 Super G3 fax. It is optimized for multi-channel support on a single DSP. In addition to TCP and UDP,
support for RTP/UDP has been added to the new version, and it also features a new "spoofing" function to prevent jitter, delay or lost packets. These new features permit the implementation of GAO's
T.38 software in a wider range of IP fax products, making GAO's T.38 the most attractive in the embedded communications market.
"One of the fundamental reasons businesses look to implement real-time fax-over-IP is to consolidate their voice, fax, and data traffic onto their existing IP network,” said Dr. Frank Gao, president
of GAO Research Inc. "As communication devices migrate toward the packet based environment, customers will require a fax-over-IP solution to complete their communications infrastructure. GAO's T.38
software offers the complete set of functions required by fax-over-IP systems, which enables our customers to significantly reduce their R&D efforts.”
GAO's T.38 fax relay software provides the following functions:
Toronto, Canada - Jan. 14, 2005 - GAO Research Inc., a leading provider of embedded communication software, today announced the launch of its packaged Voice & Fax over IP (VFoIP) embedded software solution. GAO's VFoIP solution includes comprehensive software modules for voice and fax processing, packet data transmission and control, ITU-T H.323, SIP, MGCP, RTP, and RTCP protocol stacks. GAO's VFoIP solution incorporates all aspects of a VFoIP system, offering its customers the advantage of launching new VFoIP products with minimal in-house development work, thus shortening the always critical time to market factor. Products that customers can deploy by using GAO's VFoIP software solution include stand-alone IP phones, VoIP PBXs, VoIP Gateways, and Fax over IP applications.
"As the IP Telephony market continues to prosper, we're seeing a huge demand for voice and fax over IP software," said Dr. Frank Gao, president of GAO Research Inc. "There is an upward trend where, instead of doing in-house research and development, companies are acquiring embedded VoIP software solutions from outside vendors, and then integrating with target hardware platforms to produce their voice and fax over IP products. GAO VFoIP Software Solution offers all the functions required by a voice and fax over IP system, enabling our customers to significantly reduce their integration efforts, time to market, and capital expenditures."GAO's VFoIP Software Solution supports H.323, SIP, MGCP, RTP, RTCP protocols, voice compression using GAO's G.7xx speech codecs, and voice processing software such as call discrimination, echo cancellation, voice activity detection, comfort noise generation, DTMF tone detection and generation, and automatic gain control. Fax over IP capability is also provided using T.38 fax protocol. Packet data transmission and control is achieved with lost packet detection and reconstruction, jitter buffer management and sequencing, and a suite of packet protocols.GAO Research, a Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner and leading supplier of embedded communication software has announced that its V.92 modem software is now available to run under Microsoft's Windows CE. V.92 technology improves on V.90 in three ways: supplies a higher upstream data rate of up to 48 kbps, shortens the connection time by 50%, and has the ability to temporarily put the 'Modem On Hold' (MOH) allowing users to receive a phone call without having to disconnect from their Internet session. Integrating GAO's products with Microsoft's Windows CE .NET elevates the collaborative efforts of both companies to a wide range of offerings for OEMs looking to shorten their time to market and develop their digital and mobile products based on the latest embedded technology.
TORONTO, Canada and SANTA CLARA, California -- GAO Research, world leading supplier of embedded communication software, and DSP Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DSPG), the world leader in the development and licensing of Digital Signal Processor (DSP) cores announced today that Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., of Japan has licensed GAO's V.90 (56k) modem software as well as the software to allow fallbacks to all lower speed modems which are designed for use with DSP Group's Teak® DSP Core. Oki is an existing Teak and TeakLite® licensee and GAO has already implemented several algorithms using DSP Group's Teak and TeakLite DSP Cores.
GAO's communications industry expertise has been established through its product line that includes software for voice band modems, broadband DSL modems, fax, fax relay, fax over IP, telephony, voice, voice over IP, and voice over DSL gateways. Developing GAO's products using DSP Group's Teak DSP Core elevates the collaborative efforts of both companies to a range of offerings for OEMs looking to shorten their time to market with DSP-based system-on-a-chip solutions for many of their digital devices.
"After careful consideration, we concluded that the combination of GAO's software modems with DSP Group's Teak processor was the best, most robust solution for our chipset product," says Hiroshi Kume, Senior Manager with Oki's LSI division. "The product has a minimal footprint and requires only a nominal amount of power while remaining superior to, and more adaptable than, a traditional chipset." Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's first telecommunications manufacturer.
"Both GAO and DSP Group have long recognized the tremendous possibilities in the union of software-based communication solutions and powerful DSPs," says Dr. Frank Gao, CEO of GAO Research. "Currently, our entire suite of modems as well as some of our other software is available for DSP Group's family of cores. We are moving to offer all of our communications products for these DSPs."
"Our collaboration with GAO Research to provide modem solutions to our licensees illustrates the solid business relationships that DSP Group is building throughout the DSP IP market," says Bat-Sheva Ovadia, vice president of marketing and business development for DSP Group's Technology Licensing Division. "The SmartCores series continues to satisfy OEM's demand for powerful, open-architecture DSP IP platforms on which they can create value-added chipset solutions."
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Toronto, Canada: GAO Research Inc., the preeminent embedded communications software provider, has announced that it will release V.92 compliant modem software as well as V.44 data compression software by the begining of the next year. This places GAO as the market forerunner for softmodem based on the two new standards recently ratified by the ITU.
Dr. Frank Gao, internationally known DSP expert and CEO of GAO Research, says, "We are very pleased that our customers will benefit from the early avaliability of these software packages. We have always maintained that software solutions offer a faster and more cost-effective upgrade path than fixed-function chip sets do. Since an upgrade by GAO's customer from a V.90 to a V.92 softmodem will not require customers to make significant hardware design changes if any, it will prove to be an inexpensive and effective means for customers to provide extended functionality in their products."
GAO is currently porting its C-coded versions of V.92 and V.44 to a wide variety of DSPs and microprocessors. Dr. Gao adds, "These C and assembly-coded new products add significantly to our modem, telephony, and integrated products extending the capabilities of our access technologies for Internet appliances, VoIP, residential gateway and remote access server packages."
V.92 improves on V.90 in three ways:
V.44, the new data compression software, improves on the existing V.42bis standard by as much as 100%. Depending on the kind of data, compression ratios of 6:1 are attainable with V.44. Full advantage of both standards is realized when GAO's V.92 softmodem is combined with its V.44 yielding greater throughput. For example, with a V.92 upstream connection speed of 48 kbps and 6:1 data compression the data transfer rate becomes 288 kbps. Due to physical limitations, hardware modems that depend on the use of serial ports are often limited to a maximum transfer rate of 115.2 kbps.
"Interest in our V.92 software has been high," says Uwe Lynen, GAO's Vice President of Business Development "Many of our current customers are already looking to upgrade their softmodem-based products to include the higher speed modem. We are committed to providing them with V.92's new features quickly, which is extremely important in this competitive market." With the addition of V.92 softmodem and V.44 data compression software to GAO's growing portfolio of modem, fax, speech and telephony software, GAO will continue to be the leader in serving its customers' needs by providing complete, embedded telecommunications solutions.
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Toronto, Canada: GAO Research Inc., the world-leading supplier of communications software, has made a significant breakthrough in the huge Chinese information appliance market with the signing of a contract with Beijing Hi-Tech Wealth Electronic Product Company Ltd., the number one PDA manufacturer in China.
Under this deal, GAO is supplying high-speed modem software that runs on the Intel StrongARM processor. Beijing Hi-Tech Wealth plans to use the software for its Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) in China.
"We are pleased that GAO Research has chosen Intel's StrongARM processors as the platform for their PDA software. We see tremendous potential for Intel StrongARM processor in the Chinese market," said Intel's Tom Yemington, Product Marketing Manager, Handheld Computing Division of Intel.
The embedded modem software from GAO enables PDA users to connect to a phone line and browse the Web or transfer data at high speeds to and from the Internet. "The combination of Intel StrongARM processor and GAO softmodem technology offers a cost-effective, real-estate saving, minimal power consumption, and flexible solution which is far more superior than a chipset for PDA devices," said Steve Yu of Beijing Hi-tech Wealth.
Dr. Frank Gao, CEO of GAO Research, feels that the information appliance market is going to grow explosively over the next few years. "Worldwide, more and more people want the functionality of browsing the net while being mobile. At GAO we have the embedded software technology to enable the change, and we are well-positioned to take advantage of the tremendous opportunity this represents."
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Toronto, Canada: GAO Research Inc. is pleased to announce that it is working with STMicroelectronics to port its V.90 software modem to ST's new range of powerful and cost effective ST40 products which incorporate the 32-bit SuperH, SH-4 CPU core. This extends the existing cooperation between GAO and ST for supplying GAO's modem software on ST's micros for consumer and telecom applications.
"This cooperation demonstrates that both companies recognize the enormous potential of software based modem solutions on powerful microprocessors" said Uwe Lynen, Vice President of Business Development at GAO.
Since the standardization of the 56Kbps V.90 modem was completed in the fall of 1998, it has quickly become the ubiquitous high-speed modem standard not only for the PC, but for Set-top box applications, Internet appliances, and anywhere high-speed communication is required. The V.90 software solution from GAO provides for more flexible feature sets and excellent cost/performance.
"Software V.90 Modems are a key part of our system-on-chip strategy and with the processing power offered by the SH-4 CPU core this an ideal product to take advantage of GAO's expertise in optimized application software." said Mark Jones, Marketing Director, CPU Cores at ST.
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