TranSwitch licenses AMR-WB for wireline silicon implementation

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 [...]

Dialogic sponsors TMC webinars on HD voice

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 [...]

Ovum: HD voice won’t bring more money for mobile operators

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 [...]

3 quietly shows HD voice demo in the UK – mobile HD voice announcement at MWC?

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 [...]

The five biggest problems HD Voice faces in 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 [...]

VoiceAge confirms AMR-WB patent pool pricing revisions

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 [...]

XConnect provides more detail on HD voice peering trial

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 [...]

IT EXPO East 2010 – XConnect formally announces trial of HD Voice peering federation

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, [...]

Phone.com discusses challenges to building a public HD voice network

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 [...]

CES 2010 – XConnect talks HD voice interconnect trials

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 [...]