WorlddDialPoint - First Provider in Australia to support the Opus Codec
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Saturday, 15th August, 2015
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18:54pm
WorldDialPoint first in Australia to support the Opus Codec on its own network.As off today we are announcing that our network support the OPUS CODEC.
Why this codec?Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec and performs better then iLBC / G729a and all other codecs. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet
What is the techhnology behind the Opus codec
Opus can handle a wide range of audio applications, including Voice over IP, videoconferencing, in-game chat, and even remote live music performances. It can scale from low bitrate narrowband speech to very high quality stereo music. Supported features are:
- Bitrates from 6 kb/s to 510 kb/s
- Sampling rates from 8 kHz (narrowband) to 48 kHz (fullband)
- Frame sizes from 2.5 ms to 60 ms
- Support for both constant bitrate (CBR) and variable bitrate (VBR)
- Audio bandwidth from narrowband to fullband
- Support for speech and music
- Support for mono and stereo
- Support for up to 255 channels (multistream frames)
- Dynamically adjustable bitrate, audio bandwidth, and frame size
- Good loss robustness and packet loss concealment (PLC)
- Floating point and fixed-point implementation
- Performs very good on mobile networks like 3G/4G
Performance of Opus codec against other codec'sRead here
https://www.opus-codec.org/comparison/
What software supports Opus Codec?Unfortuneley not much software yet support this great codec
Some software that do provide support are
Linphone -
http://www.linphone.org/technical-corner/linphone/features Phonerlite -
http://www.phonerlite.de/
Zoiper -
http://www.zoiper.com/en/screenshots#mobile-ios
CSipsimple -
https://code.google.com/p/csipsimple/
IP Phones that supports the Opus Codec?Not much but the main companies seems to be working on a release soon.
The only one we found is
Obihai - http://www.obitalk.com/info/products/obi1032
How do can I use this codec?If you opened an account as of 15/08/2015 the codec is enabled by defualt otherwise you will need to contact us to enable it.
