Baidu, China's Leading Internet Search Engine, Set to Become The Largest Provider of Video Chat in Greater China
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Global IP Solutions (GIPS) theleading provider of high-quality IP multimedia processing solutions, announcedtoday that Baidu.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the number one Chinese languageInternet search engine, will launch its instant messaging application withreal-time video chat based on the GIPS VideoEngine solution.
'GIPS developed its reputation in voice, and we've been successfullysolving real-time video complexities for the last three years,' said EmerickWoods, Global IP Solutions CEO. 'Video conference/chat users are increasinglydemanding better network speeds, quality, reliability and consistency, anddevelopers are challenged with adding more features. While most video chatssuffer from freezing, bad lip synchronization and postage stamp video images,Baidu now offers one great application which delivers GIPS quality serving thesingle largest market in the world,' added Woods.
GIPS VideoEngine is the most widely deployed VideoEngine technology in theworld and is specifically designed for real-time communications over IPnetworks. The technology solves the common problems that most video chatapplications suffer from -- small, spasmodic images, lip synchronization andpoor voice quality. In addition, GIPS VideoEngine uniquely adapts to theavailable bandwidth, which ensures that a video connection is maintained atall times and prevents the video from freezing.
GIPS VideoEngine works with standard or proprietary video codecimplementations and reduces the RAM and CPU required to deliver high qualityvideo on computers. It offers the best combined voice and video performance inaddition to offering HD capabilities on a software platform. With GIPStechnology, customers can deliver the highest quality products and achieve anaccelerated time to market in addition to reducing the costs ofimplementation.
About Baidu
Baidu.com, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search provider.As a technology-based media company, Baidu aims to provide the best way forpeople to find information. In addition to serving individual Internet searchusers, Baidu provides an effective platform for businesses to reach potentialcustomers. Baidu's ADSs, each of which represents one Class A ordinary share,are currently trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol'BIDU.'
About Global IP Solutions
GIPS provides best-in-class voice and video in end-to-end IPcommunications with robustness against packet loss for service providers,enterprises, applications developers, network equipment, gateway and chipmanufacturers. GIPS' customer list includes Nortel, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo!,AOL, EarthLink and other key players in the VoIP market. GIPS is a member ofthe Intel(R) PCA Developer Network, Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian PlatinumPartner Program and Texas Instruments' third-party developer network. GIPS isheadquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Stockholm, Boston and HongKong. For more information, please visit http://gipscorp.com.
SOURCE Global IP Solutions
