Singapore's IP-Tribe selects the Radisys MediaEngine for customers' transcoding needs

Radisys, the services acceleration company, has announced that telecom systems integrator IP-Tribe has selected Radisys’ MediaEngine to deliver next-generation transcoding solutions to its mobile operator customers in Southeast Asia.

IP-Tribe, headquartered in Singapore, is a system integrator partner of regional Tier-1 telecom service providers in South East Asia. Radisys’ MediaEngine is being deployed and integrated by IP-Tribe into a leading Southeast Asian mobile operator’s network to support transcoding for rich communication services (RCS) and other next-generation services.

“We earned our reputation as a leading systems integrator in Southeast Asia through the selection and deployment of telecom network solutions that best address the service delivery challenges of our mobile operator customers,” said Ang Aik Hong, CEO, IP-Tribe. “We chose Radisys’ market-leading MediaEngine portfolio as it offers the scalable transcoding essential to deliver seamless interoperability between legacy and next-gen services, across all of the endpoint devices in the network.”

Traditionally, transcoding has been integrated in media gateways and session border controllers. However the transcoding requirements of advanced HD audio and video codecs are overwhelming the capabilities of legacy equipment. The increasing deployment of advanced codecs used in new services offerings, such as VoLTE, VoWiFi and WebRTC, calls for a new approach to ensure interoperability between contemporary and legacy endpoints and handsets. An adjunct transcoding architecture such as the Radisys MediaEngine adjunct transcoding solution enables mobile operators to more flexibly and cost-effectively support HD audio and conversational video services using the latest advanced codecs and to prepare for the virtualisation of their session border controllers (SBCs). 

Said Grant Henderson, VP, MediaEngine and Corporate Marketing, Radisys: “Our proven ability to complement legacy gateway and SBC infrastructure with powerful audio and video transcoding capabilities offers our customers a future-proof approach to scale and generate revenues from next-generation service offerings, while maintaining interoperability with legacy mobile devices and endpoints. IP-Tribe’s regional relationships with Southeast Asian mobile operators and strong integration skillsets facilitated a seamless deployment.”

MediaEngine will transcode a wide range of standards, such as WebRTC endpoints using VP8 (video) and OPUS (audio), with SIP endpoints H.264 (video) and G.711/G.729/G.722 (voice) codecs; G.711 audio in a VoIP service provider network to G.729 or G.722 HD audio deployed in the enterprise; and from VoLTE terminals using the AMR-WB codec, with 3G handsets using AMR-NB codec and other legacy mobile handsets/codecs.

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