The Cable Show 2012: Snom arrives

Seeking to make friends among the MSOs, snom (www.snom.com) is showing off its business phones for IP voice and Lync hosted solutions.

Making its first appearance here, the company is featuring (at booth 1321) its snom UC edition “qualified for Microsoft Lync” phones, including the 300 UC, 370 UC, 821 UC and Lync “optimized” [...]

Horne International, Evolve form Hornet hosted HD voice

Fairfax, VA-based Horne International has created Hornet LLC with Evolve IP to deliver hosted HD voice, unified communications, and managed network services to government “and other large multi-line businesses and organizations.”

Hornet (www.hornetcommunications.com) will be providing a “one stop, turn-key HD VoIP offering” with Polycom phones. Government customers will be able to purchase [...]

Cisco, CTM collaborate on CloudVerse “Business” Talk hosted HD voice solution for Macau

Cisco and CTM, Macau’s leading telecommunications operator, have announced a collaboration highlighting Cisco’s CloudVerse framework with the introduction of a “Business Talk” Unified Communication Service by CTM.  The hosted service will feature HD voice as a part of the package.

CloudVerse is a framework combining Cisco and third-party technologies with the elements of Unified [...]

Broadvox interconnects HD voice through Inteliquent

Inteliquent (www.inteliquent.com), the company formerly known as Neutral Tandem, announced Broadvox (www.broadvox.com) as an HD voice interconnection customer.   Broadvox joins 8×8 and at least 8 other service providers exchanging HD voice traffic through Inteliquent.

Seamless interconnection is the final hurdle for ubiquity in making HD voice calls.  Existing Inteliquent customers exchanging traffic through the [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

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 sound.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]