Quick HD voice stats from IT EXPO East 2012

Miami, FL and Washington DC – At the “HD Voice: Improving Voice Quality to Meet Demands of U.S. Customers” panel at IT EXPO East 2012, representatives from Polycom and Neutral Tandem revealed some numbers worth repeating.

Jeff Rodman, CTO and co-founder of Polycom, estimated that his company has shipped all total about three (3) million HD voice [...]

Editorial – 2011 year end stats for HD Voice News

Closing out 2011, HD Voice News logged 5,325 returning visitors, 42,000ish page loads, and 28,400ish unique visits.

So, what does this mean, other than the fact we aren’t connected to a SEO-gaming service?

For 2010, the site’s first full year of operation, HD Voice News logged 4,814 returning visitors, 34,830 page loads, and 22,852 unique visits.

If I’m [...]

GSA clarifies HD Voice News math, new mobile HD voice service providers

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.

Hadden writes–

The previous GSA report – dated October 3, 2011 confirmed 32 [...]

SMC Networks to talk about DECT at CAT-iq developers conference

SMC Networks (www.smcnetworks.com) plans to talk about why and how the company plans to incorporate DECT into its home gateway solutions at the CAT-iq developers conference on September 20-21, 2011 in The Netherlands.

The second annual conference (http://catiq-conference.com) has a number of interesting speakers scheduled to discuss all things DECT and CAT-iq, including appearances by Uniden America, [...]

Stats and readership for HD Voice News over the past 2 months

May and June were high-traffic months to www.hdvoicenews.com, with May 2011 having 4,117 page views; 2,817 unique visitors, and 474 returning visitors. 

June 2011 had 3,590 pages views; 2,512 unique visitors and 473 returning visitors.

The previous three months (February-April 2011) had a rough average of nearly 3,000 page views per month, almost 2,000 unique visitors per [...]

Acme Packet adds hardware transcoding NIU for Net-NET SBCs

Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com) has added a hardware transcoding unit to its Net-Net 3820 and 4500 Session Border Control (SBC) Platforms.

The Transcoding Network Interface Unit (NIU), one of two announced today, adds hardware-based transcoding to Acme Packet’s 1RU (1 rack unit) platform family.  The NIU family features onboard QoS monitoring and reporting and four 1 Gbps Ethernet [...]

GSA mobile HD voice report confirms 40% of EU covered/in progress

A new report out of the Global mobile Supplies Association (GSA) says 40 percent of the countries in the European Union have commercially launched mobile HD voice service or are engaged in trials and test ahead of planned introduction. HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney predicted this in May in “Mobile HD Voice Snowballs in Europe.”

The [...]

@Cableshow tweets about HD voice exhibits at The Cable Show 2011

According to the Twitter representative (tweeting? Tweeter?) of The Cable Show (2011.thecableshow.com), Metaswitch Networks and CableNET – the technology showcase area for CableLabs – will both be featuring HD voice.

@Cableshow sent the following tweet in response to a @DougonIPComm message earlier in the day wondering if cable execs would be talking about HD voice at a [...]

CSR announces yet another Bluetooth chip supporting HD voice

CSR (www.csr.com_ has announce support for the HFP 1.6 Bluetooth profile, which includes support for wideband speech/HD voice.   Its BC6145 part for mono headsets is the first one to support this new hands-free profile.

Needless to say, CSR has cranked out a flurry of Bluetooth HD voice support announcements across multiple products (chip sets) for handset, headset, [...]

Fraunhofer IIS expands audio labs, adds three professors

The makers of MP3 and AAC are expanding. Fraunhofer IIS has expanded its International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (AudioLabs), adding three professors and looking for “top scientists from around the world.”

All total, there are “more than 20 internationally renowned” scientists at AudioLabs conducting research and development in audio coding, audio signals analysis and perceptual spatial audio [...]