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A Broadcom spokesperson says the codecs supported in the BCM63168 silicon release last week are G.722, AMR-WB, BroadVoice-32, and “linear WB.” Inclusion of AMR-WB is interesting, but it isn’t clear if Broadcom is simply supporting the codec or if it has licensed it for inclusion in the chipset. HD Voice News has asked for [...] At Broadband World Forum this week, Broadcom announced an IAD SoC (System on a Chip) to integrate everything but the kitchen sink; including ADSL2+/VDSL2, channel bonding and G.vector with 802.1n, Ethernet switching, and “Multi-channel HD voice.” The Broadcom BCM63168 xDSL IAD SoC integrates 802.11n, Gigabit Ethernet Switching, DECT, VoIP, Packet and Quality of Service Acceleration, and xDSL [...] Citing HD voice as the reason, silicon manufacturer Broadcom is now offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free, without any licensing fee, AND as open source software under a GNU license. Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code under GNU LGPL version 2.1. The company says by [...] Broadcom latest broadband IAD (integrated access device) chip has integrated almost everything but the kitchen sink, including support for DECT CAT-iq and HD voice. No big surprise that the announcement comes during Broadband World Forum Europe 2009, since CAT-iq has been blessed by France Telecom for incorporation into all of its end-user handsets. The new Broadcom BCM6362 [...] 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 [...] |
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