Two years after starting operations, CableLabs has officially announced the PeerConnect registry, a service to facility end-to-end IP communications. The service provides a telephony number translation service for IP, enabling cable companies to distribute numbers and other IP session routing information to enable direct IP voice, video, SMS, and other SIP-based communications forms. Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, [...]
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Missouri-based Big River Telephone Company (www.bigrivertelephone.com) is rolling out its HD voice service for its wholesale partners next week at The Independent Show, a summit of independent cable operators from around the country. HD voice service is now available to all current and future Big River Telephone wholesale partners when HD Voice-supported equipment is purchased and installed, [...] One of the loose ends from The Cable Show (#cable11) last month was if Motorola was going to support the software upgrade for HD voice in its set top boxes, like Arris and SMC. A Motorola spokesperson said the company’s set top boxes did use the Intel/TI Puma 5 chipset, but there have been no customer [...] Arris won’t be the only cable box manufacturer offering HD voice via a software upgrade to existing hardware. SMC Networks offered more details on how the solution is built around the Intel Puma 5 family of chips. SMC VP of Engineering Pete Quigley said Intel had recently sent out a software update for the Puma 5 that [...] Chicago, IL – Arris has over 15 million HD voice-capable cable endpoints deployed, according to a senior executive for the company. The catch is that the interface is analog-based. Arris Senior Vice President Derek Elder said the company had embedded hardware in its line of EMTAs and other devices some time ago to support a 7 kHz [...] According to the Twitter representative (tweeting? Tweeter?) of The Cable Show (2011.thecableshow.com), Metaswitch Networks and CableNET – the technology showcase area for CableLabs – will both be featuring HD voice. @Cableshow sent the following tweet in response to a @DougonIPComm message earlier in the day wondering if cable execs would be talking about HD voice at a [...] When The Cable Show (2011.thecableshow.com) arrives the week of June 13, will cable companies open up about HD voice? Representatives from Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, and the FCC will “Talk About a Dream: New Directions in Cable Voice” on Tuesday. A session description is below– Cable’s emergence as a mainstay provider of residential and business voice services is [...] The 2nd annual CAT-iq Developers Conference (http://cat-iqconference.com/) will be held on September 20-21, 2011 at the High Tech Campus, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Conference organizers are looking for a speaker from a North American cable company to participate. The conference will cover– CAT-iq profiles (2.0, 2.1) in depth. On integration with Service Providers infrastructures/services. Has the cable industry gone all-SIP when it comes to full-blown SIP peering? One source says “Yes,” and said Comcast and the rest of the cable industry is saving big bucks on termination and per-minute charges. One of the presenters at the VIP Peering conference said – but HD voice has not be able to confirm – [...] NETGEAR (www.netgear.com) VEVG3700 gateway. Depending on how the service provider orders it, the device can incorporate at CAT-iq gateway. Support for HD voice, regardless of CAT-iq, is included via G.722. Moving through the food chain, the DHH1000 Digital Hub. Close-up of the VDB1000 handset/base, supporting G.722, DECT and CAT-iq. The DHH1000 can support up to four (4) DECT handsets, [...] |
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