One of the two panels I moderated in Austin, TX last week was on migrating interconnections between TDM and IP to IMS (peering), but the real eye opener was talking to some of the hosted VoIP service providers on the show floor. Most of them didn’t know who Neutral Tandem or XConnect were and [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] Neutral Tandem, a leading provider of global interconnection services, has announced the launch of HD Voice Interconnect, a wideband voice interconnection solution for the competitive carrier market. No ENUM registry required. First announced customer is the largest G.722 shop in North America – 8×8. Yes, this is a big deal. The service is aimed [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] Is there a TAC code database that maps HD voice support (AMR-WB support) to each TAC (i.e., to each mobile device)? This should be a fairly simple piece of work and useful to have for carriers that wish to do a pre-deployment survey of handset devices to determined what handsets (customers) already are [...] 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 [...] Verizon and Tata have agreed to SIP peer/federate to enable access to the other’s telepresence suites, making the two carriers the first to officially do so. How the agreement works at the network level is unclear; specifically, does it just apply to telepresence apps or to all SIP traffic. From a customer perspective, this [...] ZipDX CEO David Frankel has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny the AT&T/T-Mobile merger unless HD voice requirements are put onto AT&T as conditions it needs to meet once it completes the deal. Frankel briefed FCC officials from the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, the Office of General Council, and [...] |
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