By Doug Mohney, on November 13th, 2009
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 20th, 2009
Glendale AZ & Washington DC – A few examples of the many, many G.722/HD voice capable phones available off-the-shelf today. As noted previously, one had to look carefully to find a non-G.722 phone.
Cisco SPA 5xx IP phone line
Cisco’s SPA5xx line of SMB IP phones all have G.722 built-in. You’ll note the range of options [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 15th, 2009
Glendale, AZ – Walking the exhibit floor, it was difficult to find a handset that didn’t have HD voice embedded in it. Well-known names such as Cisco, Panasonic, Polycom, and snom, as well as newcomers Aksys Networks and Yealink all had G.722 handsets available for viewing.
Cisco’s line of SPA5xx IP phones — including a $130 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 16th, 2009
This is a (laborously cut and paste) summary of the afternoon “tweets” posted from the HD Communications Summit on September 15; the morning will be posted later (hopefully after I figure out an easier way to process the morning Twitter-ing).
Chris Fine, VP Goldman Sachs
Lunch break over; Chris Fine of Goldman Sachs up to talk about [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 26th, 2009
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 says all of its handsets already support G.722 [...]