GL Communications adds POLQA to its testing software

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GL Communications has added POLQA (Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Analysis) to its voice quality testing software.

The company’s enhanced VQuad and stand-alone Voice Quality Testing (VQT) software both incorporate support for POLQA, also known as ITU-T P.863.

POLQA is the successor to PESQ and supports the latest HD voice codecs and network transport [...]

GSA: HD voice now in 45 countries, 61 networks

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The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA, www.gsacom.com) has issued an updated report on HD voice with a lot of trend information.  It has confirmed that 61 mobile networks in 45 countries are now delivering HD voice, up from 55 percent from a year ago.

Countries listed in the GSA HD voice repot include: Armenia, [...]

Sorting through IntelePeer’s and BroadSoft’s HD voice interop “support”

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IntelePeer made two HD voice interconnection announcements in October, but trying to parse through the marketing speak has proved to be painful.  The company can route G.722 calls via its CoreCloud product and has a federation-style offering for BroadSoft customers under the name of Fluent.  

With CoreCloud, IntelePeer supports G.722 via SIP trunking.  [...]

GSA: HD voice on 45 mobile networks in 35 countries

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In a report released on September 3, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) “confirms a rapid expansion” of mobile HD voice services worldwide using AMR-WB, with deployments on “numerous” GSM, WCDMA-UMTS  and LTE networks.

The latest “Mobile HD Voice: Global Update” report confirms HD voice services have been commercially launched in almost 60 [...]

Editorial—If you want to support HD Voice News….

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A lot of people appreciate HD Voice News.

If you are one of them, I hope you will consider buying this year’s 2012 report available over at TMCNet. It’s available at http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/ip-communications/HD-Voice-Second-Annual-report1.aspx. 

We’ve priced it this year at $120 for a single user copy.  I’m hoping a lot of companies that balk [...]

2012 HD Voice News report now available

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The HD Voice News second annual report is now out and available on TMC. 

“HD Voice 2012: Proliferation” is now available at TMCnet.com for the affordable price of $120.  The report is based on three years of accumulated research and dialogue with service providers, network equipment vendors and OEM suppliers.  It documents a [...]

Editorial-2012 HD voice report is done. Finally.

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The 2012 HD Voice News report, “Proliferation,” is now at TMCnet. I am hoping it will be available for purchase by the end of the week, given the amount of time took to get to this point.

More information on pricing and where to get it will be posted when those details are finalized.

Editorial–Work on the 2012 HD Voice News report has begun

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I have started work on the 2012 HD Voice News report, so you may not see a lot of postings in this space over the next week.

“Millions” of Fraunhofer Full-HD voice users–with a big Apple catch

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When Fraunhofer rolled out its “Full-HD Voice” codec at Mobile World Congress last month, a company official boasted there were “millions” of Full-HD voice calls already talking place. Well, there are, but they all sit on the island of Apple.

More specifically, Fraunhofer’s press release said-

“Every day, millions of users already make Full-HD [...]

February 2012: Best Month Ever for HD Voice News

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The month of February clocked record visits to HD Voice News, with nearly 800 returning visits, over 3,750 unique visits, and nearly 5,600 page loads.

All statistics are high-marks since HD Voice News started operations in 2009.