Optimum Lightpath rolls out audio and web conferencing

Optimum Lightpath has rolled out a Conference Bundle, a full line of conference services including “enterprise-class” audio and web conferencing.  The service provides support for HD voice if the customer has it.

Features of the conference bundle include support for up to 300 audio only or 125 web and audio participants; a “Connect Me” feature to automatically [...]

Aastra phones being offered with Earthlink Business hosted VoIP service

Aastra (www.aastra.com) will have several of its 6700i SIP phones included in Earthlink’s Complete Voice hosted business voice service.   Anyone spot the irony here?

The Aastra 67xxi series phones feature G.722 and were among the first phones deployed in quantity by 8×8, with a firmware upgrade turning 8×8 into the largest single business hosted HD voice “island” [...]

TurboBridge licenses HD voice conferencing solution to Broadvox

Broadvox (www.broadvox.com) becomes the latest public licensee of TurboBridge’s (www.turbobridge.com) HD voice conferencing system. 

TurboBridge, started up in 2010, previously announced relationships with Aastra and SimpleSignal, with other companies having quietly white-labeled the service.  The audio conferencing service supports G.722 and boasts a patent-pending “TurboSound Enhancement Technology” to adjust and balance [...]

CES 2012 – Line2 talks enterprise, new HD voice codecs

Las Vegas – Line2 (www.line2.com) said it is looking upmarket to larger business customers and will be adding some new HD voice codecs in the future.  However, CEO Peter Sisson initially sounded lukewarm to the idea of adding G.722 to the mix.

Currently, Line2 operates as a softclient for Android and iThings (iPhone/iPad), adding a virtual line [...]

Why Earthlink doesn’t currently support HD voice on its new business voice service

EarthLink’s rollout of a new "Complete” suite of business voice, data, and Internet solutions doesn’t include HD voice out of the box.  And it all comes down to software support in Metaswitch’s Media Gateways, according to an EarthLink executive.  But a fix should be in by the end of Q1 2012.

“The G.722 codec which supports HD [...]

Microsoft Lync does standards-based HD voice in Polycom interop

Polycom’s new Microsoft’s Lync solutions don’t speak Microsoft RTA.  Instead, the SIP standard devices and phones will all talk through Lync using G.722 and G.722.1 (Siren) for HD voice support.

Polycom announced “the broadest ranges of UC solutions” interoperable with Microsoft’s UC platform last week, citing over 40 systems, including a “custom-built” video collaboration solution, the [...]

Verizon expands VoIP to Asia; finally enables “select” HD voice and video interop via VIPER

Verizon Business has expanded its VoIP solution to the Asia-Pacific region through its global network. The company has also finally added inter-company HD voice and video (i.e. SIP interop) for “select” VoIP customers that use Verizon’s opt-in VIPER IP-to-IP routing feature to skip out on per minute domestic and international charges on calls.

“Verizon is also adding [...]

Snom scores distribution deal with BT

Snom has signed a distribution deal with BT’s IT hardware, software, and services business, BT Business Direct.  The deal will allow BT’s business customers to purchase snom’s “extensive range” of products, including IP phones and IP PBX solutions (!), directly through the BT Business Direct online store.

BT customers will be able to get an exclusive [...]

Ericsson releases white paper on HD voice

Ericsson has released a new white paper on HD voice.  “HD Voice: It speaks for itself,” available here, covers the role HD voice will play with operators and users of both fixed and mobile networks.

Among the interesting tidbits Ericsson presents include is a chart ranking call quality of an HD device to a non-HD device [...]

Virtual PBX announces “VoIP Anywhere” with HD voice support

Virtual PBX (www.virtualpbx.com) announced the latest enhancements to its hosted PBX service, VoIP Anywhere.  The service can be accessed through any standard softphone, including clients on Android and the Apple iOS family.  

Devices appear as VoIP extensions in the Virtual PBX system, so calls made include full access to all system features, including business caller ID [...]