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Optimum Lightpath has rolled out a Conference Bundle, a full line of conference services including “enterprise-class” audio and web conferencing. The service provides support for HD voice if the customer has it. Features of the conference bundle include support for up to 300 audio only or 125 web and audio participants; a “Connect Me” feature to automatically [...] Broadvox (www.broadvox.com) becomes the latest public licensee of TurboBridge’s (www.turbobridge.com) HD voice conferencing system. TurboBridge, started up in 2010, previously announced relationships with Aastra and SimpleSignal, with other companies having quietly white-labeled the service. The audio conferencing service supports G.722 and boasts a patent-pending “TurboSound Enhancement Technology” to adjust and balance [...] At AstriCon in Denver this week, Digium (www.digium.com) announced it had added a “wide-band media engine” into the latest release of Asterisk. The new support is hailed as the biggest upgrade to the software, including support for “an unlimited number” of codecs and support for SILK, 32kHz Speex, and pass-through support for CELT. Plus there’s a [...] Nefsis (www.nefsis.com) has announced its software-based VoIP engine with full-duplex, multiparty audio. As a part of its HD video conferencing cloud, the enhanced VoIP engine enables multiple participants to speak at the same time and offers improved acoustic echo cancellation support for laptops and better noise cancellation for “superior” audio performance during on-line meetings. When/where full duplex [...] Las Vegas – ShoreTel (www.shoretel.com) has announced that the latest release of its phone, er UC software now supports HD audio conferencing. The bigger question is how many HD voice codecs the software/hardware IP PBX system actually supports. A conversation on the Interop show floor with a sales engineer lead to a setup screen that listed “high [...] Orlando, FL – At today’s presentations at the Metaswitch Forum (www.metaswitch.com), HD voice got some love (i.e. slides) on the product roadmap, including support for HD voice conferencing by the end of the year. “HD voice is one of the few tricks that VoIP does that you can’t do with POTS,” said Metaswitch VP Martin Taylor. [...] Phone.com (www.phone.com) is turning on a HD voice audio conferencing bridge for its business customers, with services provided by the very-busy TurboBridge (www.turbobridge.com). Phone.com customers can get their own dedicated conference access number as well as speed dial access from their PHone.com Virtual Office phones to their own dedicated conference bridge. Initially, TurboBridge conference service will [...] Orlando, FL – Polycom (www.polycom.com) has rolled out the SoundStation IP 5000 Conference Phone, a device with a tweaked look and a MSRP of $599. Needless to say, the IP 5000 features Polycom HD Voice (i.e. G.722) and is designed for private offices and small meeting rooms. SIP Polycom dominates the conference phone market with more than [...] Aastra (www.aastrausa.com) and TurboBridge (www.turbobridge.com) have announced a bundling/trial deal for Aastra SIP phones. Look for smiles from both parties. The two are offering a 60 day free trial of the TurboBridge “HD audio” conferencing service to Aastra SIP phone customers, carriers, and resellers. Aastra supports G.722 via its Hi-Q audio technology and G.722 is the primary [...] With many participants in the conference services game, TurboBridge (www.turbobridge.com) has decided to keep its approach simple, sticking to SIP-based conferencing, a service “priced to sell” and all-you-can eat conferencing plan. “Consumers are numb to the ‘better message’,” said TurboBridge CEO Chris Koehncke, “The HD message falls on deaf ears, it’s not until people experience it that [...] |
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