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Evolve, a Cincinnati Bell Company focusing on business solutions, has just announced a new suite of “cloud” products based on an MPLS platform. The Emerge product provides a hosted VoIP solution which will support HD Voice, says the PR rep. More specifically, Evolve will support HD on both Polycom and Cisco handsets. Of course, the devil [...] Last week, Cisco (www.cisco.com) threw a curve ball into the enterprise space, announcing an Android-based tablet focused on high-quality video conferencing. The “Cius” (See Us) hardware support HD voice both in the tablet form and via the optional docking station that supports HD voice, making it the latest and greatest in recent video announcements that [...] If you didn’t catch the news, VoiceCon is now being transmorgified into Enterprise Connect. More details can be found here at www.dougonipcomm.com. FYI, TechWeb won’t be holding a fall Enterprise Connect event in San Francisco. The biggest single theme for the HD voice community is the dual push by Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com) and Cisco (www.cisco.com) to [...] Cisco (www.cisco.com) has announced the Intercompany Media Engine (IME), a box that being called unified communications (UC) for its ability to enable secure business-to-business HD voice and “enterprise” video from video-enabled devices by simply dialing standard phone numbers. For VoiceCon, Cisco announced it has conduced the first intercompany “UC” calls (because that’s cooler than simply [...] COMPTEL PLUS, Nashville, TN – The demand for seamless enterprise connectivity via SIP for applications such as HD voice and videoconferencing is driving Cisco and other enterprise vendors to solicit third-party solutions for business SIP interoperability. “Federation” is back again and it might have a better chance of sticking this time around. Enterprise federation – call [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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