type private ; acquired by google inc. in 2011 1 industry voip videoconferencing founded 1999 defunct 2011 headquarters san francisco ca products voice processing engines video processing engines website www.gipscorp.com global ip solutions also known as gips was a united states based corporation that developed real time voice and video processing software for ip networks 2 before it was acquired by google in may 2010 . the company also known as gips delivered embedded solutions that enabled real time communications capabilities for video and voice over ip voip . gips was perhaps best known for developing the narrowband ilbc and wideband isac speech codecs . 3 gips software was generally delivered as engines that packaged together voice and video processing components into optimized frameworks 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 history edit 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 . the founders recognized that at the time most voip solutions were using existing technology developed for circuit switched networks and were therefore not properly suited to handle the delay jitter and packet loss presented by ip networks . it was with that premise in mind that the company began to develop and market technology specifically designed to mitigate the inherent challenges of voip . in may 2010 google bought gips for 68.2 million . 7 in june 2011 google released webrtc a proposed standard for pluginless peer to peer audiovisual communication between browsers with gips technology . 8 external links edit ilbcfreeware site global ip solutions website references edit ilbc freeware . retrieved 2011 06 23 . gips 2008 annual report wirevolution interview with jan linden tmc labs voiceengine product review gips customer list gips executive team google buys gips to challenge skype in voip eweek 2010 05 18 google webrtc faq are the webrtc components from google s acquisition of global ip solutions this google related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article related to telecommunications is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title global ip solutions & oldid 743698656 categories companies formerly listed on the oslo stock exchangecompanies based in san franciscogoogle acquisitionstelecommunications stubshidden categories all stub articlesgoogle stubs navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view