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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 [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] One of the “It’s not going to be perfect” issues emerging with the rollout of HD voice on wireless networks is the ability to transcode between AMR-WB — the current “standard” for mobile HD codecs — and G.722, the de facto HD voice standard on broadband and enterprise networks. Last week at the HD [...] Verizon has installed HD voice in at least one of its locations and believes VoIP to be classed as a data service if it expects to make money and for HD interconnects to happen. Speaking at the HD Communications Summit last week in New York City, Verizon Product Manager Alla Reznik declared there is [...] In a blog posting “The VoIP Industry ReBoot Continues,” Jeff Pulver summarizes his thoughts on last week’s proceedings. We present it here so you don’t have to click over… —————————————————————— www.jeffpulver.com September 17, 2009 The VoIP Industry ReBoot Continues On Tuesday, September 15th, the second HD Communications Summit took place in New York City. [...] The tweets presented below were sent during the HD Communications Summit, September 15, 2009. Some formatting and selective spelling correction done for readability. Jeff Rodman, CTO Voice Division, Polycom Rodman – Thinking about consumer pull. Who is not convinced? Some pubs are “already there” HD wireline, want to know about HD wireless Rodman [...] The tweets presented below were sent during the HD Communications Summit, September 15, 2009. Some formatting and selective spelling correction done for readability. Robert Graves, Chairman, ATSC Forum Graves – from Bell Labs/AT&T, got involved with video, went to ATSC Graves – Spent lot of time evangelizing about ATSC/digital TV/HDTV Graves – ATSC now [...] |
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