ZTE Licenses SPIRIT’s Voice Solution for HD Video Conferencing

SPIRIT DSP, the world’s leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced today that ZTE Corporation (”ZTE”), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has licensed SPIRIT’s voice solution to empower ZTE’s HD (High Definition) video conferencing systems with outstanding quality voice, giving end-users a rich communication experience.

ZTE is the second largest telecom equipment supplier in China, right after Huawei, another SPIRIT customer. ZTE’s product range is the most complete in the world, reaching more than 500 operators across 120 countries and covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless, terminal and service markets. In 2007, ZTE topped the global CDMA market at 43 percent of the world’s total CDMA shipments. With SPIRIT’s solution built inside ZTE’s HD conferencing systems, end-users will experience HD quality communication, offering enhanced realism from significantly improved picture and sound quality.

The high-end videoconferencing market is surging very fast. Research firm IDC expects sales to nearly triple this year to $169 million from just $64 million last year, and reach $1 billion by 2011.

“We found SPIRIT’s solution to far exceed all known similar software products in terms of quality, scalability and reliability. With SPIRIT’s solution, there is no delay, transcoding or noise aggregation on the server side – the quality is magnificent and the software’s ability to scale is almost limitless. We’re pleased to be working with SPIRIT,” said Huang Qiang, Chief Engineer of Multimedia Terminals Network Division at ZTE.

“This relationship with ZTE marks another major milestone in SPIRIT’s commitment to continue supplying the world’s leading communications equipment providers with the most advanced, high-definition communication technologies,” said Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales at SPIRIT. “ZTE is a global telecom equipment supplier, and we’re excited to be working with such a global established player to deliver perfect quality voice to the world.”

About ZTE

ZTE is a worldwide telecoms equipment supplier, and China’s only listed telecoms manufacturer, with shares publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. ZTE was the only Chinese IT and telecoms manufacturer listed in BusinessWeek’s 2005 Top 100 Information Technology Companies. Founded in 1985, with global headquarters in Shenzhen China, and operations in more than 100 countries, ZTE is a leading global provider of fixed line and mobile telecommunications equipment and network solutions. In 2005, ZTE has sales revenue of RMB 21.5 billion and about 400,000 employees worldwide. Visit http://wwwen.zte.com.cn.

About SPIRIT

SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, and has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the last 10 years, SPIRIT’s focus has been on voice and video communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, Arima, ARM, Atmel, Blizzard Entertainment, BT plc., Cisco, Compal, deltathree, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Huawei, Importek, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks, NXP, Oracle, Paltalk, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, Reigncom, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Trinity Convergence and Veraz, and among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SeeStorm is a SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.

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Contacts

SPIRIT DSP
Ksenia Egorova
+7-495-661-2178
egorova {at} spiritdsp(.)com
or
HighTech PR Inc for SPIRIT DSP
Terry May
321-632-1690
terrymay {at} hightechpr(.)net
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ZTE Corporation
Zhu Ying
+86-755-26-775536
zhu.ying4 {at} zte.com(.)cn