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HD Voice News invites all members of the HD voice ecosystem – service providers, core network gear, software developers and handset manufacturers to submit their most recent statistics and information to be incorporated in a public presentation at DEFCON 18 at the end of the month. We are particularly looking for: 1) Deployment numbers (end [...] TechWeb’s Heavy Reading Insider has released a 20 page report, “Making HD Voice Happen: Choosing Codecs, Connecting Islands.” The press release and executive summary say “it will likely take two years” for HD voice to emerge as a competitive differentiator and for service providers to begin offering HD voice in “earnest” with cable operators “likely” [...] ABI Research (www.abiresearch.com) predicts that there will be over 487 million mobile HD voice subscribers by 2015. Principal analyst Fritz Jordan says that HD voice will find traction in developing markets because the upgrade to it not “especially expensive” and that newer 3G networks (circa 2005-2006) can already use HD voice with a software upgrade [...] TMC (www.tmcnet.com) has posted both of the archived Dialogic HD voice webinars on line for review. “Part 1: The Year of HD” covers the surging use of HD voice in North American and around the globe; advantages of HD voice over a regular PSTN call; and how affordable HD voice is compared to [...] The Financial Times (FT) caught Skype CTO Jonathan Rosenberg at eComm yesterday touting the virtues of HD voice and the SILK superwideband codec and noted the HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES. Rosenberg presented data showing that users talk almost 50 percent longer when using HD voice as compared to G.729. He also underlined what [...] XConnect (www.xconnect.com) has announced the initial participants in its HD voice peering trial. The list includes “the usual suspects” plus a couple of new names. Telephony providers participating include Alteva, Broadvox, Phone.com SimpleSignal, State 2 Networks and Telesphere. Consumer provider/phone maker Ooma is participating, even though the company isn’t yet officially supporting HD voice for its [...] 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 [...] This list is a moving target/snapshot of what is known and confirmed. 1) France Telecom/Orange – Over 500,000 G.722 endpoints – Reported May, 2009 Despite some prodding, France Telecom has not yet updated its broadband HD voice numbers since reporting them last year in New York City. The numbers cited are assumed to mostly be in [...] Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney is being compensated by TMC for his participation in the webinars. TMC is putting on a pair of HD voice webinars in March and April, with sponsorship being provided by Dialogic. “The Year of HD Voice” will take place on Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM ET and will discuss the surging use of HD [...] 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 [...] |
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