So, your company finally has VoIP.

Now what’s the next step?

Why, VoIP conferencing, of course. If you haven’t implemented a conferencing solution for your new VoIP system, then you haven’t fully unlocked the power of VoIP. Real time video conferencing, presence, automated conference scheduling and the ability to break apart conferences into smaller groups are just some of the features which can be afforded through this important new IP-based business tool.

If you want to learn more about VoIP conferencing and how it can improve your business operations, then you should check out the third annual VoIP Developer Conference, now underway (Aug. 8-10) in Santa Clara, Calif.

Fred Wydler, VoIP product director for SPIRIT DSP, a “bootstrap” company which delivers embedded voice, audio, video and communication software products and consulting services to the world’s leading telecommunications, semiconductor and software companies, will be giving a presentation entitled “Multi-Point Conferencing Tools for Enterprise Collaboration Systems.” Wydler’s presentation, scheduled to be held from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 10, will ask the hypothetical question: “What comes after VoIP calls in enterprises?” (The answer to which is: “integrated, quality, low-cost, multi-party conferencing.”)

Attendees of Wydler’s presentation will learn how to integrate VoIP and collaboration tools into a single comprehensive solution, yielding powerful conferencing capabilities and the highest quality voice. The program will also offer ideas on how to use a voice engine to provide for sophisticated conferencing features; how to get rid of integration issues with standards-based and proprietary enterprise instant messengers, application and document sharing tools; smart network traffic usage; P2P calling; the advantage of independent traffic control for all parties in a call/conference, media gateway support with standard codecs (G.711, G.729, GSM AMR NB, iLBC) and cascading conferencing server scalability.

With more than 140 professionals, SPIRIT DSP has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. For the last 10 years, the company’s focus has been on communication, speech and VoIP software products.

SPIRIT’s clients include Adobe, Agere, Atmel, Compal Communication, Flextronics, Ericsson (News - Alert), HP, HTC, Kyocera, LG, Marconi, MediaRing, National Semiconductor, NEC (News - Alert), Nortel (News - Alert) Networks, Oracle (News - Alert), Paltalk, Panasonic, Philips Semiconductor, Polycom, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence.

SPIRIT DSP is a member of major voice-related developer communities, including Intel (News - Alert) Developer Network, ARM Connected Community, Philips Nexperia Partnership, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAP Developer Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is SPIRIT’s affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.

The company made news recently when Technology Marketing Corporation’s TMC Labs division named its TeamSpirit Mobile product as a 2006 Innovation Award winner from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. TeamSpirit Mobile - “the most compact voice engine on the planet today” - is the first voice engine to enable a full VoIP application. The solution is said to enhance voice and video quality on mobile devices based on Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows Mobile 5.0 SmartPhone Edition, Windows PocketPC 2003 and Windows Smartphone 2003 operating systems.

For more information about SPIRIT DSP and its products, visit http://www.spiritdsp.com/.

For more information about the third annual VoIP Developer Conference, visit http://www.tmcnet.com/voipdeveloper/.

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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for TMCnet and a columnist covering the telecom industry. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.