iBasis and Telecom Italia Sparkle IPX interconnect/peer

KPN subsidiary iBasis and TI Sparkle, the international services arm of Telecom Italia Group have turned up a multiservice IPX peering connection.  The new interconnection will support the exchange of multiple media types, including voice, signaling and GRX traffic generated by and destined for network operators connected to each carrier’s IPX and ensure end-to-end [...]

2012 HD Voice News report now available

The HD Voice News second annual report is now out and available on TMC. 

“HD Voice 2012: Proliferation” is now available at TMCnet.com for the affordable price of $120.  The report is based on three years of accumulated research and dialogue with service providers, network equipment vendors and OEM suppliers.  It documents a [...]

iBasis, Reliance Communications (RCom) establish IPX

This week, KPN-subsidiary IBasis announced Reliance Communications (RCom)will be joining the iBasis IPX (IP eXchange) network.

IPX services, such as IBasis’, provide full-blown SIP exchange with Quality of Service (QoS) to support services such as HD voice, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and videoconferencing.   IPX is necessary for LTE roaming and provides high-quality VoIP in [...]

Enterprise Connect 2012: Level 3 to support SIP interconnection; SMS needs to be just another data type on IP PBX

A Level 3 spokesperson said the company was working towards enabling SIP peering across all of its customers, and expected to roll it out later this year.

The conversation came up during a wider discussion of Level 3’s enterprise services and customer’s desire for videoconferencing and other SIP-based services to “just work.”

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Telstra International is “looking into” HD voice functionality for IPX service

Korean-based SK Telecom and Hong Kong-CSL have announced a LTE roaming agreement using Telxtra’s IPX interconnect service.   But there’s more to come, says a Telstra official.

“Leveraging QOS enabled networks allows Telstra International to control the quality of the voice call from the origin to the destination across markets in Asia, Europe and US,” [...]

BT Global Telecom finds HD voice, promotes global IP Exchange (IPX) for SIP exchange

Over the past month, BT Global Telecom has ramped up promotion of HD voice through several blog postings and UK interviews.  The carrier is positioning itself as the place to go to exchange HD voice and other SIP services , but it is also waiving around an old idea on how to make money [...]

Broadvox interconnects HD voice through Inteliquent

Inteliquent (www.inteliquent.com), the company formerly known as Neutral Tandem, announced Broadvox (www.broadvox.com) as an HD voice interconnection customer.   Broadvox joins 8×8 and at least 8 other service providers exchanging HD voice traffic through Inteliquent.

Seamless interconnection is the final hurdle for ubiquity in making HD voice calls.  Existing Inteliquent customers exchanging traffic through the [...]

Ericsson, Qualcomm to demo VoLTE to WCDMA voice handover via SRVCC

At Mobile World Congress next week, Ericsson and Qualcomm will conduct a live demo of seamless voice call handoff between LTE to WCDMA voice networks. 

The SRVCC (Single Radio Voice Call Continuity) demo highlights the ability to use fewer radio components to hand off calls between LTE and WCDMA networks.   A demo illustrates [...]

Quick HD voice stats from IT EXPO East 2012

Miami, FL and Washington DC – At the “HD Voice: Improving Voice Quality to Meet Demands of U.S. Customers” panel at IT EXPO East 2012, representatives from Polycom and Neutral Tandem revealed some numbers worth repeating.

Jeff Rodman, CTO and co-founder of Polycom, estimated that his company has shipped all total about three (3) [...]

Heard at IT EXPO East 2012 – Canadian phone companies hurry to eNum registry

Miami, FL – Canadian phone companies are taking efforts to interop very seriously after a January 19 regulatory ruling. The service providers are engaging in discussions on how to set up a national eNum registry as quickly as possible.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) wants phone companies “to rapidly adopt Internet Protocol [...]