Comcast has been busy this week with new voice services. The company has enabled unlimited free text messaging on its customers’ home phone numbers. Currently supported via web portal, iThings app, and Android app, the new service may hint at the forthcoming arrival of CAT-iq 2.0 devices and HD voice. Or not.
Out at 2012 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters), AETA AUDIO SYSTEMS says it will launch an enhanced version of Scoopy+, a multitasking portable codec device, with new support for LTE. The company says French radio Europe 1 now uses HD voice and the Scoopy+ HD to transmit live from streets of various French cities.
At CES, D2 Technologies was talking up IMS. In Barcelona this week for Mobile World Congress, the company announced it is working with NVIDIA to implement SRVCC for HD Voice.
NVIDIA’s Icera 410 LTE modem is loaded with D2’s mCUE 4G client to deliver a complete solution with Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) [...]
Just in time for Mobile World Congress, OPTICOM has rolled out app-based management to include quality of experience (QoE) on smartphones for over the top (OTT) testing. HD voice is featured.
The Q-Apps software-based testing apps can either be installed on what it calls “COTS” smartphones, embedded in applications, or both; it can also [...]
Like everyone else on the planet, Polycom (www.polycom.com) has announced it is adding a service/cloud model rather than simply sticking to a hardware/software sales strategy. In this case, Polycom will be providing RealPresence Cloud, a wholesale, carry-ready offering to enable service providers to bring Video-as-a-service (VaaS) offerings quickly to market.
D2 Technologies (www.d2tech.com) demonstrated the latest version of its mCUE software, showing live VoIP and video calls over LTE in Las Vegas, including RCS calling using an IMS-based platform.
The mCUE 4G software is optimized for Android to deliver carrier-grade voice and video over smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. The software recently [...]
Alan Hadden, President of the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA – www.gsacom.com) was nice enough to drop a note to HD Voice News clarifying the math and added services providers between its October 3, 2011 report and the most recent one dated November 21, 2011.
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 [...]
Earlier this week,the Global mobile Supplier Association (www.gsacom.com) released its latest and greatest stats on HD voice penetration in the GSM world. There are 60 compatible AMR-WB devices available on the market, 31 countries with commercial mobile HD voice service, and 36 commercial mobile HD voice networks turned up.
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 [...]