ITU approves Polycom Siren14 as new international standard - ITU tests show super wideband audio better than MPEG4; Royalty-free licensing terms to drive adoption.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-14 April 2005-POLYCOM: ITU approves Polycom Siren14 as new international standard - ITU tests show super wideband audio better than MPEG4; Royalty-free licensing terms to drive adoption(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12042005 SLOUGH, Berkshire - Polycom , Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the worlds leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced that the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has approved Polycoms Siren14 technology as a new 14 kHz super-wideband audio coding standard, and the approval now goes to "last call" as ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1 Annex C.

The technology, which is being offered with royalty-free licensing terms, provides near-CD quality audio for better clarity and less listener...