By Doug Mohney, on February 16th, 2010
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 and into [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 10th, 2010
Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney is being compensated by TMC for his participation in the webinars.
TMC is putting on a pair of HD voice webinars in March and April, with sponsorship being provided by Dialogic.
“The Year of HD Voice” will take place on Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM ET and will discuss the surging use of HD [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 3rd, 2010
Ovum is putting its two cents worth in for mobile HD voice – but it won’t be money going to mobile operators. Instead, call quality might be the business differentiator between carriers for now. The analyst report also confirms an earlier report that mobile operators will make a HD voice interoperabilty announcement at Mobile World [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 28th, 2010
Credit to Dan Berninger for the pointer
The UK is close to being a hotbed for mobile HD voice, if reports are to be believed, and there may be a big mobile HD voice announcement in February.
Techeye was invited by upstart cellular carrier 3 to get a demo for mobile HD voice. Sound quality is descirbed [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 26th, 2010
Note: Ooma is a sponsor of HD Voice News
HD voice is by no means a “slam dunk” in 2010. There are five significant problems the HD voice ecosystem of players need to address before victory can be declared and wideband calling is as at least as ubiquitous as VoIP calling.
However, four out of five problems [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 25th, 2010
Note: Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News
VoiceAge has plans to send out a formal press release about revised pricing to its AMR-WB patent pool next week.
At IT EXPO East in Miami last week, the company discussed “aggressive” pricing changes that were favorably received by developers in attendance and said details were available at [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 19th, 2010
XConnect has divulged more information about its HD voice interoperability trial and a company official indicated that over “15 to 20″ U.S. service providers are interested in participating, including cable service providers and CLECs in North America, and service providers in Norway, Holland and Korea.
Operators wishing to participate in the HD voice trial must be [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 19th, 2010
After testing the waters at the HD Voice Summit at CES earlier this month, XConnect has formally announced its free trial for its HD voice peering federation. The trial, open to “qualified operators,” waives sign-up and monthly fees during a run from April to June.
Under the trial, multiple providers will be able to test interoperability, [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 13th, 2010
Note: Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News
Fresh off the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES (Consumer Electronics Show), Phone.com CTO Alon Cohen has blogged “How to Solve the Biggest Challenge to Building a Public HD Voice Network.”
Cohen argues that HD voice interconnection between service providers is essential, but codec patent holders should [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 10th, 2010
HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES, Las Vegas — XConnect released some information on a free trial for HD voice providers to the company’s Global Alliance platform and said more details will be defined and announced by IT EXPO.
The announcement by XConnect Vice President Mark Benisz was greeted with a call for applause by Polycom [...]