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AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) has rounded out its VMAS family of mobile VoIP solutions to include Blackberry and Android clients. VMAS now covers all “leading mobile operating systems” including Symbian, Windows Mobile, Apple iOS, Blackberry and Android, as well as existing solutions for the PC and web. VMAS is a complete mobile VoIP/ SoIP (SMS over IP) solution; [...] AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) will acquire all of N.S.C. Natural Speech Communication (NSC) that it doesn’t currently own. Based in Israel, NSC does speech analytics and speech recognition. Over the past couple of years, AudioCodes invested $8.6 million and held almost 60 percent of NSC, and started to count NSC’s financial results into its financials in 2008. AudioCodes [...] 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. GAAP net [...] With this weeks rush of acquisitions and investments in the IP communications space, one has to wonder who is looking at whom in terms of an acquisition or investment within the HD voice space. Two companies that immediately come to mind are AudioCodes and Polycom; Dialogic might be worth a look as well. AudioCodes brought in [...] AudioCodes also wants to clear the air about HD VoIP. It has not trademarked “HD VoIP” but has registered the phrase “HDVoIP Sounds Better (AudioCodes).” This follows the discussion with Polycom clarifying the use of “HD Voice” and how Polycom has its own unique trademark of “Polycom HD Voice” Net-net: HD voice and HD VoIP are generic [...] The tweets presented below were sent during the HD Communications Summit, September 15, 2009. Some formatting and selective spelling correction done for readability. Alan Percy, Director Market Development, AudioCodes Alan Percy, Dir Mkt Develpment, AudioCodes takes stage. How do we get to “our dream” of HD. Awareness/education one step, very important Enterprise: Ready Vendors discussed/cited: ADTRAN, AudioCodes, Avaya, Cisco, Gigaset (Siemens), ooma, Polycom, snom Enterprise: Ready You don’t have to try very hard to find G.722 support for enterprise-grade IP phones. All of the usual suspects have G.722 codecs in one or more of their handset lines. Avaya says all of its handsets already support G.722 [...] The newly announced Glass platform has onboard support for not one, but two wideband codecs. The white label/OEM business IP media phone platform supports both G.722 and AMR-WB codecs, said Cloud Telecomputers VP of Engineering Ravin Suri. Suri said support for other codecs is possible (we guessed as much) through firmware upgrades, but it was premature [...] Registration is now open for HD Comm ’09 and the schedule of speakers has been announced. The one-day event will highlight advances in HD Communications, with participating speakers from (in no particular order) BroadCom, GIPS, WYDEVoice, AudioCodes, SpiritDSP, Polycom, Uniden, ZipDX, DSPGroup, XConnect, Gigaset, Dialogic, Verizon and Time Warner. |
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