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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

XConnect announces AudioCodes G.722/AMR-WB transcoding for its customers

XConnect (www.xconnect.net) is touting an AudioCodes HD voice transcoding solution between wireline and wireless networks for its HD Alliance customers.  The Alliance is an IP-based federation with 11 service providers.

The new capability uses XConnect’s carrier-ENUM registry and IP interconnection services along with AudioCodes’ Mediant 3000 transcoding solution.  XConnect says the solution has been [...]

Neutral Tandem talks about HD voice interconnect service

Founded in 2003, Neutral Tandem (www.neutraltandem.com) routes over 10 billion minutes of traffic per month and as a neutral exchange platform, it moves traffic for over 110 major wireless, CLEC, cable service providers on an all-IP scalable network. The company was kind enough to provide a briefing last week under embargo to HD Voice [...]

The Cable Show 2011/#cable11–Comcast demos business HD voice offering

While nobody at Comcast was ready to talk about HD voice on the consumer side, the company was demonstrating in plain sight the capability to support it and videoconferencing on the business side.

 

The “Managed Business Class Voice” demonstration featured Polycom’s poster-child VVX video phone to do point-to-point video calls in Comcast’s [...]

Cloud Telecomputers cranks up board, Glass Android desktop phones

Silent for a while, Cloud Telecomputers (www.cloudtc.com) has started cranking up the volume, announcing certification with Metaswitch, a new CEO and a new board member who was the former President and CEO at Polycom.

Anthony Gioeli has been named President and CEO.  Before joining Cloud, he was EVP of sales and marketing at [...]

Metaswitch adds home-grown HD voice UC soft client to portfolio

Metaswitch Networks (www.metaswitch.com) has added CommPortal Communicator to its growing portfolio of “We’re here to help the service provider” software applications.  The customizable UC client includes support for G.722.

CommPortal Communicator is available on Windows PCs, Apple i-devices and Android platforms. The software is designed to be a managed UC client for use by [...]

Telstra pushes HD voice as a part of "Digital Business” solution

ARN (www.arnnet.com.au) reports Telstra is putting $600AU million into its network as a way of getting SMBs to use digital communications solutions. More importantly, Telstra is putting HD voice as a key role into its newly introduced Digital Business solution.

Digital Business combines a high-speed broadband service and VoIP with a QoS guarantee. The [...]

HD voice surge in next three years: Verizon, cable companies to lead deployments

Alexandria, VA — (April 7, 2011) — HD voice is expected to grow significantly over the next three years as Tier 1 service providers such as Cincinnati Bell, Comcast, France Telecom, and Verizon offer the technology to business, residential, and wireless customers. Already, seventeen mobile carriers have either operational service or announced plans for [...]