Toshiba Corporation Joins the G.729 Consortium
MONTREAL, July 21 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Sipro Lab Telecom (Sipro), the G.729 Patent Pool Licensing Administrator, is pleased to
announce that Toshiba Corporation has joined the G.729 Consortium. The G.729 Consortium
now represents and pools together the intellectual property rights (IPR) essential to this ITU-T
standard of France Telecom, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation Universite de Sherbrooke, and Toshiba Corporation -- all recognized industry
leaders in the area of speech coding and processing solutions.
Sipro now represents the IPR portfolio of five (5) major telecommunication innovators related to
the G.729 technology on a worldwide basis. "Adding Toshiba's IPR to the Patent Pool license
delivers added value for all existing and potential future licensees of the IPR represented by the
G.729 Consortium which through its licensing agent, Sipro, provides a single point of contact
to a more comprehensive pool of essential patents," says Catharie Bechamp, Sipro's Vice
President Licensing.
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 this proven speech coding solution by the telecommunication industry.
About G.729
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. In today's market, G.729 is 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.
About Sipro Lab Telecom
Sipro Lab Telecom is patent pool administrator and licensing agent for the G.729, G.723.1,
G.729.1 and G.711.1 patent pools, with more than 10 years experience in patent pool creation
and management for standard speech and audio coding technologies. Sipro's hallmarks are
solid business ethics in managing multiple patent pools, extensive knowledge of the
telecommunications market, and a proactive sales approach that contributes to optimum
timeframes for the conclusion of license agreements. Sipro actively contributes to the spread of
the technologies we represent through our services to partners and customers. Sipro is a
privately owned Canadian corporation, created in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec.
SOURCE Sipro Lab Telecom
CONTACT: Nathalie Beaudoin,
Director of Licensing of Sipro Lab Telecom Inc.
+1-514-737-5874
Fax: +1-514-737-2327
info@sipro.com
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