Snapshot – HD phones: Enterprise ready; Consumer coming

Enterprise: Ready Consumer: Coming SMB: A few Mobile: Waiting

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 [...]

Glass supports G.722 *and* AMR-WB codecs

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 [...]

Speakers, registration announced for HD Comm '09

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.