The Cable Show 2012: Snom arrives

Seeking to make friends among the MSOs, snom (www.snom.com) is showing off its business phones for IP voice and Lync hosted solutions.

Making its first appearance here, the company is featuring (at booth 1321) its snom UC edition “qualified for Microsoft Lync” phones, including the 300 UC, 370 UC, 821 UC and Lync “optimized” [...]

Aastra, Level 3 offer cloud voice services and SIP trunking for Internet2 consortium

The Internet2 university network consortium has worked out a deal with Aastra and Level 3 Communications to provide managed voice services and SIP trunking to college campuses throughout the country.  Aastra says that its Clearspan hosted SIP calls will do HD voice by default with “no additional changes or charges,” so this could be [...]

Comcast enables SMS text messaging – CAT-iq and HD voice to follow soon?

Comcast has been busy this week with new voice services. The company has enabled unlimited free text messaging on its customers’ home phone numbers.   Currently supported via web portal, iThings app, and Android app, the new service may hint at the forthcoming arrival of CAT-iq 2.0 devices and HD voice. Or not.

When [...]

Grandstream announces yet another HD voice enterprise handset

Over in Germany for CeBIT, Grandstream Networks announced the GXP212 Enterprise HD IP phone. The new phone includes electronic hook switch (EHS) support for Plantronics headsets.

Users can dial using only the buttons on the handset, so one doesn’t need to touch the desktop keypad. Other features include 4 line keys with up to [...]

Invoxia releases AudiOffice HD voice dock for iPad, iPhone

At Mobile World Congress, Invoxia has released the AudiOffice, a phone/Apple iThings dock optimized for the desktop.

Like its’ pricy predecessor the NVX 610 , the AudiOffice focuses on delivering the best sound quality.  It has four wideband speakers and two digital microphones to deliver better bass, perform sound processing to filter out echos [...]

Swissvoice gets CAT-iq 2.0 certified handset, uses DSP Group chipset

Cordless handset manufacturer Swissvoice (www.swissvoice.net) got its IH 250 phone CAT-iq 2.0 certified by the DECT forum in January and DSP Group took credit for the chipset in it about two weeks ago.

The IH250 is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2012 and supports the full range of CAT-iq 2.0 [...]

Editorial–The HD voice “stamp”/logo on IP desktop phones: Just do it.

One of the most interesting/subtle marketing moves Digium did on its phones is to put the phrase “HD voice” on the handset.  There aren’t a lot of people who do that right now.

As I’m flipping through pictures and leftovers from IT EXPO East 2012, I see Denwa has its phone handset stamped [...]

IT EXPO East 2012 – Panasonic “open source” Android desk phone debuts

Miami, FL – Panasonic (www.panasonic.com/sip) has rolled out a $499 7 inch color touch screen Android-based desk phone. But they say they can’t call it Android due to legal headaches with Google.

The KX-UT670 is certified as compatible with a bunch of different SIP-based platforms, including Asterisk, BroadSoft, and Metaswitch. Codecs supported include G.722, [...]

IT EXPO East 2012 – Quick details on the new Digium IP phones

Miami, FL – A brief stop at the Digium (www.digium.com) booth at IT EXPO East revealed the following tidbits on the new family of IP phones–

1) The phone was designed and contracted solely by Digium — it is *not* a OEM/white label product.

2) Manufacture of the phone is done in China by [...]

Editorial from IT EXPO East- Aren’t IP phones done yet?

Miami, FL – There are at least three vendors touting new IP phones or software/firmware upgrades to their phones here at IT Expo. I thought we were done with handsets already?

Digium is getting a lot spin along with a good measure of WTF by rolling out its own IP phones; three to be [...]