I pity the fool who ain't got a wideband codec

I hope readers remember Mr. T. It increasingly looks like GIPS is firmly entrenched in the A-Team of picks-and-shovels beneficiaries of this whole IP meltdown. Today the company formally teams up with Pingtel and On2 to create a developers' kit, which is apparently behind the new AOL service, and also announced Earthlink's Vling as the latest wideband convert, though I think the latter announcement was a bit of a no-brainer given Google Talk's federation plans with Vling, previously announced.