GAO is the market-leader in embedded telecom software and media signal processing products for DSP & Microprocessor environments, and one of the fastest growing companies in Canada. GAO has a global repeat customer base within OEM markets for Internet phones, set-top boxes, feature phones, DVD players, defense, software modems, wireless devices, modem pools and terminal devices. GAO's customers include Motorola, Lucent, Alcatel, Qualcomm, Philips, Terayon, Telcordia (formerly Bellcore), OKI, Marconi, Siemens, Infineon, Mitsubishi, Intercom, LG Electronics, Toshiba, and other market leaders. GAO's physical layer software modules include Soft Modems (V.92, V.90, V.34 and fallbacks), Fax (V.34, V.17, and fallbacks), Telephony (AEC, LEC, CID, etc.), Speech Codecs (G.7xx), T.38 Fax over IP, and VoIP modules on the widest range of processor and DSP platforms. GAO's DSP and Microprocessor algorithms are ITU-T compliant, and offer a more economical alternative for OEMs during volume manufacturing of consumer and telecom devices, as compared to fixed function chipsets.GAO Research also offers a full featured VOIP package for speech, data and telephony, allowing OEMs to get to market quickly and economically utilizing software, as opposed to fixed function chipsets. This enables equipment manufactures to perform affordable, hardware independent feature and function upgrades.
