The company delivered embedded software that enabled real-time communications capabilities for video and voice over IP (VoIP).
[3] GIPS software was generally delivered as “engines” that packaged together voice and video processing components for smoother integration and better performance.
[4] GIPS’ customers are primarily service providers, application developers, and manufacturers of IP phones, gateways or voice and video conferencing systems.
[5] The company (formerly known as Global IP Sound) was founded in July 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden, by signal processing experts Roar Hagen (then GIPS’ CTO) [6] and Bastiaan Kleijn (then GIPS’ Chief Scientist), Espen Fjogstad and Ivar T. Hognestad.
[7] In June 2011, Google released WebRTC, a proposed standard for pluginless peer-to-peer audiovisual communication between browsers, with GIPS technology.