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 [...]
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.
Irish VoIP service provider Blueface (www.blueface.ie) has announced a Panasonic handset promotion with HD voice threads.
Customers purchasing a Panasonic HD voice capable TGP 500 handset for 99 euros will get an extra handset free; the handset is listed at a value of 70 euros.
An ophthalmic producer and supplier focusing on the Latin America market is buying a Switchvox solution with Cisco HD voice capable phones. Integrated Lens Technology (ILT) has contracted with TelOnline to put in business phone/unified communications solutions into Miami, Costa Rica, Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador and 14 countries in Latin America, according to the press [...]
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.
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 (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 [...]
Austin, Texas – 8×8, once upon a time the poster child for business hosted HD voice, bought yet another cloud computing today.
8×8 is acquiring privately-held Contactual, a provider of cloud-based call center and customer interaction management (CRM by any other name) solutions, in an all-stock transaction not to exceed 6.7 million shares [...]
DSP Group has its XpandR® multimedia chipset in a newly released multimedia cordless phone being offered by Deutsche Telekom (DT). It’s an Android fixed-line “hybrid” smart phone, with both DECT/CAT-iq and Wi-Fi.
The Speedphone 700 has a 3.2 inch touch screen with an “icon-grid” user interface. The XpandR chip set supports DECT and [...]
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 [...]