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Citing HD voice as the reason, silicon manufacturer Broadcom is now offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free, without any licensing fee, AND as open source software under a GNU license. Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code under GNU LGPL version 2.1. The company says by [...] This week at VoiceCon, Polycom also underlined the use of its Siren 14/G.7221C voice codec by Vivox. Vivox, the market leader in providing voice services for developers of online games, virtual words and “the social web,” said it delivers voice chat to over 16 million users and support billions of minutes of chat per month. The company [...] At VoiceCon, Polycom announced that it now has a full portfolio of HD voice phones, adding on two under $200 phones, one specifically optimized for Microsoft Office Communicator. The announcement fulfills the company’s pronouncement in the spring that all of Polycom’s products would support HD Voice by the end of the year. The Polycom SoundPoint IP 335 [...] In a release schedule to hit the wires tomorrow, Voxbone is announcing that its iNum service now supports HD between “dozens” of VoIP networks and Skype, with the ability to translate between Skype’s wideband SILK codec and the more dominant G.722 codec/standard. Voxbone’s iNum service has its own international “country” code — 883 — and calls to [...] Editor’s note: Phone.com and ooma are sponsors of www.hdconnectnow.org Phone.com has announced the introduction of its new HD Business Phone service, adding to the company’s portfolio of VoIP Virtual Office Services. Businesses can purchase their own HD IP phones to complement their Phone.com Virtual Office account or purchase a phone from phone.com to use the service. This is [...] Asked about reports of AT&T conducting HD voice trials/pilots in the San Antonio area, its PR firm responded thus: “HD voice is a very interesting technology that we’re monitoring, but we don’t have an HD Voice offering or any plans to discuss at this time.” AT&T’s response should be placed in context relative to the other [...] Lots of islands, with continents to come 5 providers queried/interviewed: 8×8/Packet 8, Alteva, Cablevision/Optimum Lightpath, Whaleback Systems, Verizon Business Many hosted business VoIP providers currently offer HD voice as an “upsell”/advanced feature to businesses and charge extra for it, but this is likely to change because HD-capable handsets are becoming more affordable and prolific, with Avaya and Polycom [...] Sprint announced its Partner Interexchange Network (PIN – har har) today to provide “business-to-business” wholesale exchange of voice traffic. Sprint’s PIN service allows users who can directly exchange VoIP service between themselves while on Sprint’s IP network. Since everyone is on IP, they can either lower or eliminate access termination fees and LEC tandem fees. But [...] Dialogic and Voxbone have joined HD Connect. Dialogic, a global provider of products and technologies for multimedia and signal processing, views HD voice as a strategic technology and expects to make a number of specific product announcements and enhancements in the coming months. Voxbone announced support for HD calling through its iNum service at the HD Communications Summit [...] AudioCodes also wants to clear the air about HD VoIP. It has not trademarked “HD VoIP” but has registered the phrase “HDVoIP Sounds Better (AudioCodes).” This follows the discussion with Polycom clarifying the use of “HD Voice” and how Polycom has its own unique trademark of “Polycom HD Voice” Net-net: HD voice and HD VoIP are generic terms [...] |
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