Aastra phones being offered with Earthlink Business hosted VoIP service

Aastra (www.aastra.com) will have several of its 6700i SIP phones included in Earthlink’s Complete Voice hosted business voice service.   Anyone spot the irony here?

The Aastra 67xxi series phones feature G.722 and were among the first phones deployed in quantity by 8×8, with a firmware upgrade turning 8×8 into the largest single business hosted [...]

Deutsche Telekom adds broadband HD voice with Speedphone 700, iPhone SIP client

Deutsche Telekom (DT) this week has officially rolled out an Android DECT phone with native G.722 support, plus there’s an iPhone G.722 SIP client for in-home WiFi use.  It’s the latest move by DT to expand its HD voice support in the consumer world.

The Speedphone 700 is an Android-based home phone with [...]

iPhone HD voice round-up: Invoxia, TeamViewer

Invoxia (www.invoxia.com) has announced the NVX 610, a VoIP phone with an iThings (iPhone/iPhone/iPad) dedicated app to enable dialing from the iThing, plus facilitate “mobile convergence.”  You can receive calls to an iThing mobile as well as VoIP based calls.

The big draw/brag with the NVX 610 is a total of eight 8 mics [...]

Ireland business VoIP provider partners with Panasonic for HD voice

Irish VoIP service provider Blueface (www.blueface.ie)  has announced a Panasonic handset promotion with HD voice threads.  

Customers purchasing a Panasonic HD voice capable TGP 500 handset for 99 euros will get an extra handset free; the handset is listed at a value of 70 euros.

ILT Optics gets an Switchvox/Cisco HD voice solution from TelOnline

An ophthalmic producer and supplier focusing on the Latin America market is buying a Switchvox solution with Cisco HD voice capable phones.  Integrated Lens Technology (ILT) has contracted with TelOnline to put in business phone/unified communications solutions into Miami, Costa Rica, Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador and 14 countries in Latin America, according to the press [...]

Snom rolls out 7xx series HD voice business phone family to North America

Snom technology AG has announced/introduced its new line of business VoIP phones to the United States. First shown at Metaswitch Forum last month, the snom 7xx series is designed for both small and mid-sized businesses requiring “an enterprise-class desktop phone on an SMB budget.”

Two phones have been introduced, the snom 720 and [...]

Technicolor releases new SME HD voice phone with AMR-WB and G.722 codecs

At IP Convergence in Paris, Technnicolor (www.technicolor.com) announced a new entry-level SIP phone. Now if they’d only use the term “HD voice” instead of “HD sound.” However, the phone supports not one, but two common HD voice codec.

The announcement came as a part of a larger one showcasing Technicolor’s MediaAccess communications products.

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Snom scores distribution deal with BT

Snom has signed a distribution deal with BT’s IT hardware, software, and services business, BT Business Direct.  The deal will allow BT’s business customers to purchase snom’s “extensive range” of products, including IP phones and IP PBX solutions (!), directly through the BT Business Direct online store.

BT customers will be able to [...]

Lantiq adds HD voice support to 2.4 GHz cordless phones silicon

Lantiq (www.lantiq.com) has added CAT-iq-like support to its latest 2.4 GHz chipset, including wideband voice.

The new COSIC™ WDCT chipset is targeted for inclusion into cordless handsets to be sold in Asia-Pacific countries and emerging markets that use 2.4 GHz.

Support for G.722 is included for both encoding and transmission, along with “advanced” acoustic [...]

DSP Group announces design wins with Gigaset, Sagemcom DECT, CAT-iq desktop phones

DSP Group (www.dspg.com) announced silicon design wins with Gigaset and Sagemcom DECT phones, including CAT-iq 2.0 certification for the Sagemcom phone.

The Gigaset SL901/SL901A and DX800A incorporate DSP Group’s XciteR ARM-based silicon running Linux and a “strong” DSP processor, according to the company.   XciteR is also incorporated into Gigaset’s DX600A, DL500A, and DECT IP [...]