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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

@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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

CES 2011: NETGEAR adds new service provider solutions with HD voice CAT-iq options

Last Vegas – At the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), NETGEAR (www.netgear.com) announced four new products for service providers that incorporate support for G.722 HD voice and CAT-iq.

The VEVG3700 includes a VDSL2 and dual GigE WAN gateway that can be used for DSL, FTTH or DOCSIS networks. In addition to GigE and [...]

HD Voice News stats for 2010

HD Voice News had 4814 returning visitors (i.e. people who came back at least twice) in 2010, according to numbers provided by StatCounter.com.  A total of 22,852 unique visitors (people who visited at least once) hit the site. 

Statistics are based “purely on a cookie,” StatCounter.com says, so there’s some fudge factor in [...]

Call for HD voice statistics

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) [...]