VoIP chat service uses Skype’s
SILK audio codec to offer gamers, consumers and businesses free, no-download, low-bandwidth, super wideband audio-quality voice chat
New York
– Nov. 3, 2009 – As
communication companies continue to look for new ways to generate revenue with
VoIP applications, keep current customers and lure new ones, Blabbelon enters
the market and completely changes the rules of the VoIP game. The first
browser-based VoIP chat tool using Skype’s SILK super wideband audio codec, as
well as one of the first massively multi-user VoIP services, Blabbelon can
handle thousands of simultaneous users at a fraction of the cost per user of
other traditional services. Blabbelon provides a platform for a wide variety of
users such as: gamers securely competing in team-based quests; businesses
running 7,000 person global conference calls; or grandparents taunting
grandkids over a game of Facebook Scrabble.
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An
HD-quality, push-to-talk VoIP chat service, Blabbelon requires no software
downloads or complicated sign-on procedures – users register once, click and
talk. With Blabbelon, session leaders can use, create and maintain their own
private or public groups through a number of features such as texting, e-mail
notifications and privacy management. Users can run Blabbelon in their Web
browser, while simultaneously using other online applications – with no impact
on their overall network performance, since Skype’s SILK codec was designed to
use approximately 50 percent less network bandwidth than previously required,
while delivering improved richness in audio quality.
“Blabbelon
is breaking from the trend of using VoIP as a way to simply provide ‘cheaper
minutes.’ We’ve created a value-added service that sets a precedent for VoIP to
move into areas beyond pure telephony applications and have solved the problem
of how to massively scale to include thousands of simultaneous users while
still keeping a negligible cost per user,” said Dean Elwood, chief technology strategist,
Blabbelon.
Unlike
other voice chat services that max out at 300 users, Blabbelon sessions can
scale up to more than 7,000 simultaneous users, while still maintaining a low
cost business model and offering an easy-to-use portal-style entry. A breakthrough
in VoIP services, Blabbelon is ideal for a variety of consumer and business
applications, such as e-commerce, online auctions and sales
meetings/seminars.
Blabbelon
will initially focus on a core audience of the millions of online gamers and players
of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games such as World of Warcraft (WoW).
The combination of Blabbelon’s technology and features and the SILK codec
provides a perfect tool for this market, which, because of the cooperative
nature of games, needs a no-download, high-quality, secure, reliable and
scalable voice chat.
“Blabbelon
is one of the first third-party developers to take advantage of our SILK codec
in order to deliver clearer, richer, and warmer wideband audio to consumers,”
added Jin Kim, head of business development and IP licensing for Skype.
“Blabbelon’s adaptation of SILK into its Web-based voice chat service clearly
demonstrates SILK’s potential for delivering a good user experience across a
broad quality of network connections.”
Blabbelon
was created by a team led by CEO Ed Ikeguchi, former co-founder of Medidata
Solutions (Nasdaq: MDSO); Dean Elwood, CEO of telecom provider Voxygen Limited
and chief technology strategist of Blabbelon; and Rowena Rubio, CMO and former
systems analyst.
“SILK’s
ability to provide super wideband-quality sound using a minuscule amount of
bandwidth is a huge accomplishment. We immediately saw the potential this had
in building the next-generation of chat services,” said Ed Ikeguchi, CEO,
Blabbelon.
Available
immediately from www.blabbelon.com, Blabbelon
is hosted by Rackspace, ensuring the highest levels of chat stability, quality,
security and reliability. Blabbelon offers 100 percent uptime through
Rackspace’s worldwide network and zero downtime guarantees.
