Las Vegas – Last year, HD Voice News met with Gigaset’s Tony Stankus under humble circumstances.   Tony, Product and Marketing Director for North America, had a small single room in the Las Vegas Hilton to display a few products. What a difference a year makes.

In 2012, Gigaset occupied a large suite on the 29th floor, complete [...]

Motorola is prepared to support HD voice across a variety of cable CPE, and cable customers are asking for HD voice support, according to Chris Kohler, Senior Director of Engineering at Motorola.  

This is the first clear answer HD Voice News has received from Motorola on the subject after a couple of years of asking at [...]

Grandstream Networks (www.grandstream.com) has added another couple phones to its GXP line, the GXP1400 and GXP1405.

The two phones feature 2 line keys with dual-color LED, a single SIP account, 3 XML programmable soft keys, dual network ports, and 3-way conferencing.  The GXP1405 incorporates integrated Power over Ethernet (PoE).  Support for wideband is via G.722

List price on [...]

A piece on the Delimiter web site (www.delimiter.com.au) entitled “Consumer VoIP not reliable, says Telstra” has stirred up VoIP people down under.

Several Telstra officials were asked if the company would be extending its SME VoIP platform to consumers, joining independent Aussie service providers offering VoIP service. Telstra chief executive David Thodey is quoted as saying, [...]

You may have noticed less activity on here and practically none on the DougOnIPComm “sister” site.

I’ve been involved with wrapping up the 2011 HD Voice report, editing it, and doing some side work with TMC on space/satellite.

Final editing and tweaking on the 2011 HD Voice Report is taking place now – like, this week.  [...]

XConnect (www.xconnect.net) says its’ revenues increased 90 percent in 2010, based upon traffic growth of 153 percent, with a 161 percent increase from 2009 in the number of queries to its ENUM registry from operators looking to do more SIP-y things (i.e. voice, video, text messaging, multimedia).  The release goes on to say the company added [...]

I’m working with TIA on the HD voice session at TIA 2011.  (www.tia2011.org).

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

HD Voice: Implementing the Advantages

HD voice — also known as wideband voice — is rolling out across the globe in places as varied as India’s 3G cellular network to SMBs in North America.  This session will present the basics of HD [...]

HD Voice News is currently wrapping up its 2011 report on the state of the industry.

There are a number of companies who have not recently briefed with us and we encourage them to do so before Friday, February 25.  (For that matter, there are a number of companies who can’t be bothered to send us press [...]

Next week, Ditech Networks (www.ditechnetworks.com) will be unveiling its in-core solution for upconverting PSTN and narrowband calls to near HD-voice quality. Put this down as another marker that cable operators are coming to the HD voice party Very Soon.

The solution, called “Virtual HD Voice” is being touted by Ditech as the solution to enable “operators to [...]