Ooma hedges again on HD voice: launch in “next few months” – but that’s not the real story

According to a piece published yesterday in Enterprise VoIP Planet, Ooma (www.ooma.com) plans to launch an HD voice service “within the next few months.”  

Hello, hello? This is what the company’s been saying over the past year. And oh-by-the-way, it looks like the company has finished reshuffling its executive suite with a new VP of [...]

DEFCON 18 “HD Voice – The Overdue Revolution” presentation materials

The latest (as of noon PT, today) presentation materials for the presentation at DEFCON.

There’s one PPTX download, plus two demo clips in QuickTime that Michael Graves (@mjgraves) of “Graves on SOHO Technology” was kind enough to give me.

The PPTX file is here.

QuickTime Demo clip one

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QuickTime Demo clip two

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Editorial: Will G.722 be the HD voice favorite for WiMAX?

Reviews of Sprint’s HTC EVO phone are good – with the exception of short battery life when WiMAX is turned on.  CPU-intensive codecs are only likely to compound the problem, leaving G.722 as an “oldie, but goody.”

Good news for the Sprint 4G EVO is that it’s fast. Really really fast. Like, up to 3-10 times [...]

HD Voice News goes to The Cable Show in Los Angeles

HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be in Los Angeles for The Cable Show (http://2010.thecableshow.com/) from Monday evening, May 10 (Evening media reception) through Wednesday afternoon, May 12, 2010.

Please get in touch with Doug at dmohney@hdvoicenews.com to set up appointments for briefings.  News can also be sent under embargo before the event.

May coverage – The Cable Show, HD Communications Summit West, MetaSwitch Forum

HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be at the following events in May:

The Cable Show, Los Angeles, CA

Arriving in LA on Monday afternoon, May 10. At the show proper on Tuesday, May 11, until 6 PM (show floor opens from 3-6 PM).

HD Communications Summit West, The Computer Museum, Mountain View, CA

Attending all day [...]

Editorial: Seven Octaves of Marketing Hype

During VoiceCon, I had an extended and somewhat painful discussion about HD voice with a representative of a company that shall remain nameless.  But they wear orange shirts and aren’t from Huntsville.

The briefing started off well enough, but the phrase “Our phones have been designed to carry seven octaves of sound” got dropped. Innocuously, I [...]

Editorial – The return of Enterprise federation (again)

COMPTEL PLUS, Nashville, TN – The demand for seamless enterprise connectivity via SIP for applications such as HD voice and videoconferencing is driving Cisco and other enterprise vendors to solicit third-party solutions for business SIP interoperability.  “Federation” is back again and it might have a better chance of sticking this time around.

Enterprise federation – call [...]

Guest Column: An “ear opener” to HD voice in conferencing

By Randolph Resnick, Producer VoIP Users Conference” URL: http://vuc.me

We began using the ZipDX (www.zipdx.com) wideband conference bridge about one year ago. I had been doing PSTN and g711 SIP conferences two years before that.

Over the three years, I have moderated thousands of hours of conferences, and the change to wideband was definitely an “ear opener.”   [...]

Editorial – Surprise! Business Week gets it about HD voice

While nearly all of the (so-called) trade press is drooling over Samsung intro-ing Yet Another Open Source operating system and Microsoft’s efforts to stop its phone OS from vanishing into oblivion, Business Week got it right: Voice still matters for mobile phones.

Plane old voice calls (POVCs?) still provide the bulk of revenues for carriers around [...]

2009 Top 10 HD Voice companies

In creating this list, I wanted to specifically highlight those companies who did significant HD voice projects and/or promotion in 2009. As with all subjective lists, others may dispute who is on the list and the sequence/ranking of companies.  Everyone wants to be #1 if they can get it.

– Doug Mohney, Editor-in-Chief

1) France Telecom/Orange

This [...]