InnoMedia announces HD voice support for cable operators

InnoMedia is the latest hardware manufacturer to add HD voice support to its cable CPE for businesses.   The company brags it has “enhanced” its EMTA 9528-4B DOCSIS 3.0 device with HD voice support.

The four port EMTA 9528-4B includes DOCSIS 3.0 support, internal backup batter, and a gigabit LAN port.  There’s not a lot of other [...]

TMCNet – Will Verizon Wireless/cable agreement lead to more HD voice?

HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney looks at the implications of the Verizon Wireless agreement with Comcast (done everything but order consumer HD voice CPE), Time Warner Cable (talked about HD voice a lot) and Bright House Networks over at TMC.

Since Verizon Wireless is rolling out HD voice on its LTE network in 2012 and [...]

CableLabs announces PeerConnect Registry–2 years after going into operation

Two years after starting operations, CableLabs has officially announced the PeerConnect registry, a service to facility end-to-end IP communications.  The service provides a telephony number translation service for IP, enabling cable companies to distribute numbers and other IP session routing information to enable direct IP voice, video, SMS, and other SIP-based communications forms. Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, [...]

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 News on [...]

Gigaset shows off analog HD voice firmware support with 610A

Dallas, Texas – Gigaset (www.gigaset.com) is showing off U.S. support for 7 kHz analog HD voice on its existing hardware. The capability can be added to existing Gigaset HD voice phones via a simple firmware download, but the emphasis will likely be on newer model handsets.

A demonstration at a distributor event in Dallas today used a [...]

Technicolor provides Comcast with Skype TV video “box”

Technicolor is the manufacturer of a “custom-developed” telepresence adaptor for Comcast’s Skype video conferencing solution through TV sets.Interestingly, Technicolor describes it as an adapter for delivering “High-definition videoconferencing (calling)” through TV sets, rather than simply calling it a Skype widget.

The specs of the adapter include an HDMI input and output, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, RF4CE control, [...]

SMC Networks to talk about DECT at CAT-iq developers conference

SMC Networks (www.smcnetworks.com) plans to talk about why and how the company plans to incorporate DECT into its home gateway solutions at the CAT-iq developers conference on September 20-21, 2011 in The Netherlands.

The second annual conference (http://catiq-conference.com) has a number of interesting speakers scheduled to discuss all things DECT and CAT-iq, including appearances by Uniden America, [...]

Big River Telephone announcing wholesale HD voice services at cable show

Missouri-based Big River Telephone Company (www.bigrivertelephone.com) is rolling out its HD voice service for its wholesale partners next week at The Independent Show, a summit of independent cable operators from around the country.

HD voice service is now available to all current and future Big River Telephone wholesale partners when HD Voice-supported equipment is purchased and installed, [...]

Motorola cable–Yes we use Intel Puma 5 chipset. No, nobody’s asking for HD voice

One of the loose ends from The Cable Show (#cable11) last month was if Motorola was going to support the software upgrade for HD voice in its set top boxes, like Arris and SMC.

A Motorola spokesperson said the company’s set top boxes did use the Intel/TI Puma 5 chipset, but there have been no customer [...]

The Cable Show 2011/#cable11–SMC details analog/G.722 HD voice solution for cable boxes

Arris won’t be the only cable box manufacturer offering HD voice via a software upgrade to existing hardware.  SMC Networks offered more details on how the solution is built around the Intel Puma 5 family of chips.

SMC VP of Engineering Pete Quigley said Intel had recently sent out a software update for the Puma 5 that [...]