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BT (www.bt.com) does indeed provide G.722 HD voice through various consumer products. However, there’s no mention of G.722, HD voice, or wideband voice on the BT website; BT’s marketing speak calls it “Hi-dS (High definition sound)". Sources working with BT say the carrier has purchased and deployed up to 2 million HD voice endpoints, but the [...] Credit where credit is due: @voiploser and Michael Graves provided this tip In its latest filing with the ITEF, Skype (www.skype.com) released the source code to SILK under an open license, with the code presented as an appendix to the filing. Codec junkies can review “draft-vos-silk-01” at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vos-silk-01, with the fixed-point C code starting at page 28 [...] Telecommunications fabless semiconductor company TranSwitch (www.transwitch.com) has licensed AMR-WB from VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com), marking a push to move AMR-WB beyond the cellular world into more wireline gear. TranSwitch makes a range of system on a chip (SoC) solutions combining embedded DSPs and software suites. The company will incorporate AMR-WB into its Entropia infrastructure product line and into [...] SMC has released its latest and greatest DOCSIS 3.0 gateway. Among the many features the new SMCD3USG supports is HD voice in the form of CAT-iq, said a spokesperson. More specifically, the device supports MoCA, DECT, and 802.11 “interfaces” for distribution of content to IPTVs, VoIP and DECT phones, computers, hard drives and gaming consoles. It [...] Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News At IT EXPO East 2010, Phone..com CTO Alon Cohen gave a relatively clear demonstration of the difference between “SD” voice (in the form of G.711) and HD voice with a pair of sound clips using the same spoken phrase. To hear the SD G.722 voice clip, click [...] HD voice as a term is coming close to becoming like unified communications — defined and stretched and abused by marketing and PR people to mean exactly what is necessary for the latest product and press releases. Over the past eight months, I have heard a number of definitions for HD voice. Let me codify and [...] Note: Ooma is a sponsor of HD Voice News HD voice is by no means a “slam dunk” in 2010. There are five significant problems the HD voice ecosystem of players need to address before victory can be declared and wideband calling is as at least as ubiquitous as VoIP calling. However, four out of five problems [...] HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES, Las Vegas — XConnect released some information on a free trial for HD voice providers to the company’s Global Alliance platform and said more details will be defined and announced by IT EXPO. The announcement by XConnect Vice President Mark Benisz was greeted with a call for applause by Polycom [...] Citing HD voice as the reason, silicon manufacturer Broadcom is now offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free, without any licensing fee, AND as open source software under a GNU license. Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code under GNU LGPL version 2.1. The company says [...] While Sprint’s Partner Interexchange Network (PIN) is starting out as a VoIP exchange, the company believes the new service has the potential to bring in various types of vertical service providers and leverage its strong IP networking assets. “PIN really came about from a bunch of different factors,” said Joby McDonald, a product manager for Sprint’s [...] |
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