MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Ditech Networks (Nasdaq: DITC - News) a leader in voice quality solutions for mobile and VoIP networks, announced today that its Packet Voice Processor(TM), an advanced border media processing platform designed to enable carriers to deploy universal transcoding and toll-quality voice over IP (VoIP) services, will support the Internet Low Bit Rate Codec (iLBC) along with its existing broad range of voice codecs. With the addition of this capability, carriers can minimize the cost and additional complexity associated with network-wide upgrades required to support new codecs and services.

Ditech's PVP will support up to 16,000 simultaneous iLBC transcoding sessions in combination with Ditech's hallmark Voice Quality Assurance(TM) (VQA(TM)) software suite. With the addition of iLBC support, Ditech's Packet Voice Processor continues to deliver a broader range of media processing capabilities, enabling carriers to optimize bandwidth and serve a larger set of customers worldwide. Using the PVP, voice over broadband providers can deliver superior voice quality and clarity for voice, audio conferencing, and messaging applications. VoIP termination providers can now offer termination services for iLBC, to increase the level of voice quality for VoIP to PSTN calls while enabling the use of lower cost codec technologies designed for internet telephony providers.

"We are delighted to see the deployment of the iLBC technology on network based platforms such as the Ditech PVP," said Wendy Toth, VP of Marketing for Global IP Sound. "With nearly half a billion GIPS Voice Engines deployed with iLBC, the large base of VoIP clients can now reach the PSTN with ease and pave the way to additional, even higher quality voice services in the future."

Ditech Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: DITC)