HD Voice-related events in March

Webinars

“Part 1: The Year of HD”,” Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM EST

TMC (www.tmcnet.com) is hosting, Dialogic (www.dialogic.com) is sponsoring and attendees will learn about the surging use of HD voice in North American and
around the globe; Advantages of HD voice over a regular PSTN call and; How affordable HD voice is compared to simple [...]

Unisys embraces HD voice for messaging solutions

Last week at Mobile World Congress, Unisys (www.unisys.com) demonstrated its messaging system built to handle AMR-WB and G.722 calls.

Billed as “Messaging in High Definition,” the Unisys Messaging and Converged User Services solution is able to both store voice messages in native HD formats and transcode between narrowband and HD formats.  At the heart of the [...]

HD voice companies to look for at Mobile World Congress

Several requests have come in asking about HD voice companies to look for in Barcelona next week during Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here’s a short list–

Codecs

VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com) – Did you say “AMR-WB”? VoiceAge has formally launched its patent pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 and made the pricing more end-user friendly from what we can tell.  Looks like [...]

Dialogic sponsors TMC webinars on HD voice

Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney is being compensated by TMC for his participation in the webinars.

TMC is putting on a pair of HD voice webinars in March and April, with sponsorship being provided by Dialogic.

“The Year of HD Voice” will take place on Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM ET and will discuss the surging use of HD [...]

HDConnect at FCBA Dinner on December 10, 2009

HD Connect, the organization promoting HD communications, had a table at the Federal Communications Bar Association (FBCA) Chairman’s dinner.  Proceeds from the dinner go to a scholarship program.

Above – Jim Machi, Senior Vice President, Dialogic (L) and Ari Rabban, President/CEO, phone.com (right).   Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News. Budweiser [...]

Too early to talk HD Voice M&A?

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 [...]

AstriCon 2009 – Dialogic talks HD voice media server

Glendale, AZ – Dialogic plans to unveil its first HD voice-supporting media server products in the first quarter of 2009, and a gateway product in the months following.

“HD is very important for us,” said Steve Gladstone, Dialogic Senior VP/GM, Media Enabling Product Group. The new media servers are enhancements of existing products and will be [...]

Dialogic, Voxbone join HD Connect

Dialogic and Voxbone have joined HD Connect.

Dialogic, a global provider of products and technologies for multimedia and signal processing, views HD voice as a strategic technology and expects to make a number of specific product announcements and enhancements in the coming months.

Voxbone announced support for HD calling through its iNum service at the HD Communications [...]

Afternoon Tweets from the HD Communications Summit/HD Comm '09, September 15, 2009, New World Stages, New York, New York

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 [...]

Speakers, registration announced for HD Comm '09

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 Time Warner.