Ditech Networks to unveil, demo HD voice upconvert service at Mobile World Congress

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 [...]

CES2011- CableLabs discusses HD voice CAT-iq interop, more events in 2011

Last week in Las Vegas, CableLabs Vice President (Access Network Technologies) Dan Rice shared his impressions of the organization’s December 2010 CAT-iq interop event and how future events should culminate in equipment certification for HD voice and CAT-iq.

Rice characterized the December CAT-iq event as a relatively “informal” gathering that “stuck to basic calling [...]

CES 2011–Comcast CTO dropping the “HD Voice” bomb again

Thanks to Mike Rude at DSP Group for the tip

Comcast (www.comcast.net) EVP and CTO Tony Werner was throwing around “HD voice” again in public, this time at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).  

A Comcast representative confirmed that Mr. Werner did mention HD voice in comments made at one of the [...]

Editorial–Catching up on CES 2011 news as soon as I can breath…

There is still more CES 2011 news to be published, but I am currently recovering form the airplane cold from hell.

In addition, I need to check and verify a couple of conversations as being on-the-record or off-the-record, so I expect a couple more stories a bit later this week.

- Doug

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Possible HD voice speaking opportunities in May 2011

HD Voice News is talking with “TIA 2011 – Inside the Network” (www.tia2011.org) to put a couple of HD voice-related sessions on the conference schedule.  The event will be May 17-20, 2011 at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas, Texas. 

One session will likely be a discussion and progress to date of HD voice [...]

Voxbone INum phone numbers start to get routed by the big boys

While Voxbone (www.voxbone.com) has been touting its iNum phone numbers as being a solution to HD voice, it wasn’t until a couple of weeks ago that incumbent telephony carriers started routing calls to the VoIP-based number block.

Introduced over a year ago and used in the VoIP-based world, iNum numbers use the 883 global [...]

Editorial – Maybe Dean Kamen has it right

Speaking the Better World Conference, Dean Kamen made the observation that that the time it takes to develop new products is often eclipsed by the time it takes to bring something to market.

Kamen’s remarks, reported by CNET here, were as much directed at getting regulatory approval and business and acceptance.

"Don’t gauge [...]

Polycom reports yet more growth in 1Q 2010

Last week, Polycom (www.polycom.com) reported yet another quarter of growth, this time reporting first quarter 2010 consolidated net revenues of $276 million.   Back in 1Q 2009, net revenues were $225 million.

GAAP net income in 1Q 2010 was $5 million (6 cents per diluted share) as compared to $8 million (10 cents per [...]

AudioCodes announces first quarter 2010 fiscal results

This year is starting out to be much better for AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com). The HD voice company (or HD VoIP as it would likely prefer) reported revenues of $34.8 million in 1Q 2010, as compared to $34.2 million in the last quarter of 2009 and $29.3 million back in the dark days of 1Q 2009.

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MWC: Orange to offer 8 mobile HD voice phones in 1H 2010; all by 2011.

France Telecom/Orange continues its steamroller push of mobile HD voice service at Mobile World Congress this week. The company says it plans to offer eight (8) mobile HD voice phones in the first half of this year and all of its handsets are expected to support HD voice by the end of 2011.

In [...]