GIPS Defeats Spirit On Their Home Turf

In what has to be a blow to the homeland favorite, SPIRIT DSP, Norwegian codec king GIPS grabbed the voice communications crown in Russia, winning the contract to supply a voice engine to Mail.ru reports VoIP-News out of the UK.

GIPS, which is best known as the creators and inventors of iLBC, and as the original codec inside Skype in its early days will add voice capability to the Mail.ru Instant messaging service.