RadiSys (www.radisys.com) has added a bunch of new features to its Convedia Software Media Server, including support for G.722.
Co-residency is the big feature added to the Convedia Software Media Server, enabling OEMs to offer an integrated all-in-one product or network appliance on a single compute platform. G.722 HD audio gets top billing, along [...]
Dialogic (www.dialogic.com) has officially announced support for wideband codecs in its Host Media Processing(HMP) Software release 4.1LIN; the release also includes support for new codecs (go read about that on www.hdvconfnews.com).
New wideband support includes both G.722 and AMR-WB/G.722.2.
Dialogic HMP 4.1LIN is a high-density multimedia processing software for building communications solutions on [...]
Cisco (www.cisco.com) has announced the Intercompany Media Engine (IME), a box that being called unified communications (UC) for its ability to enable secure business-to-business HD voice and “enterprise” video from video-enabled devices by simply dialing standard phone numbers.
For VoiceCon, Cisco announced it has conduced the first intercompany “UC” calls (because that’s cooler [...]
Aculab (www.aculab.com) has released a white paper on HD voice today.
The 8 page document (well, 5 readable pages, 1 of references, 1 cover, one boilerplate), “Hear your customers loud and clear with wideband (HD Voice) technology,” notes the recent surge of discussion around the mobile space but then goes on to discuss the [...]
Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com), the dominant name in the session border control (SBC) space has rolled out heavy-duty support for HD voice, including codec management functions and transcoding functions for its Net-Net family. One big surprise is support for EVRC-B, a narrowband voice codec for the CDMA world.
Last week at Mobile World Congress, Unisys (www.unisys.com) demonstrated its messaging system built to handle AMR-WB and G.722 calls.
Billed as “Messaging in High Definition,” the Unisys Messaging and Converged User Services solution is able to both store voice messages in native HD formats and transcode between narrowband and HD formats. At the heart [...]
In a column at RCR Wireless News, an Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com) employee drops one of our most favorite phrases – ironic, given the major role Acme Packet’s SBC hardware is supposedly playing in SIP/HD voice peering.
Looking at “Voice over LTE: How soon is now?,” Solutions Marketing Director Kevin Mitchell notes that the LTE [...]
Telecommunications fabless semiconductor company TranSwitch (www.transwitch.com) has licensed AMR-WB from VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com), marking a push to move AMR-WB beyond the cellular world into more wireline gear.
TranSwitch makes a range of system on a chip (SoC) solutions combining embedded DSPs and software suites. The company will incorporate AMR-WB into its Entropia infrastructure product line [...]
Ericsson is not taking a subtle approach to HD voice. The company, in league with Orange, is providing and promoting HD voice service across Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress event this week. It’s a move that might wake up some other network equipment manufacturers to the prospects of using HD voice as an [...]
Several requests have come in asking about HD voice companies to look for in Barcelona next week during Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here’s a short list–
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VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com) – Did you say “AMR-WB”? VoiceAge has formally launched its patent pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 and made the pricing more end-user friendly from what we can [...]