By Doug Mohney, on March 3rd, 2010
New Edge Networks, the business services side of Earthlink, has announced that 8×8 has joined its “ecosystem” of business applications. New Edge business customers can access 8×8’s hosted HD voice network via MPLS and 8×8 customers can ride New Edge’s MPLS network with all the advantages it carries, such as end-to-end traffic prioritization and predictable [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 5th, 2010
8×8 Vice President of Business Development Huw Rees will discuss the company’s HD voice technology and strategy in greater detail during the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show HD Voice Summit being held on Wednesday, January 6 from 1 – 5:30 p.m. in Las Vegas.
8×8 has formally announced its upgrade to its VoIP network supporting G.722, enabling [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 12th, 2009
Lots of islands, with continents to come
5 providers queried/interviewed: 8×8/Packet 8, Alteva, Cablevision/Optimum Lightpath, Whaleback Systems, Verizon Business
Many hosted business VoIP providers currently offer HD voice as an “upsell”/advanced feature to businesses and charge extra for it, but this is likely to change because HD-capable handsets are becoming more affordable and prolific, with Avaya and [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 29th, 2009
As the fall of 2009 arrives in North America, so will HD voice. Within days, Best Buy will be stocking telo, ooma’s second generation hardware, for the holiday shopping season. As the leaves fully change colors and approaching the Thanksgiving holiday, 8×8 will flip the switch on its Aastra software upgrade. Both events — one [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 3rd, 2009
At IT EXPO this week, Aastra announced it’s Hi-Q audio technology (i.e. a software/firmware upgrade) for its 67xxi series desktop phones. Hi-Q supports the G.722 wideband codec and the firmware will be available as a free software download from Aastra.
While it is good that Aasstra has joined the G.772/HD Communications bandwagon, close followers of 8×8 [...]