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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 [...] This list is a moving target/snapshot of what is known and confirmed. 1) France Telecom/Orange – Over 500,000 G.722 endpoints – Reported May, 2009 Despite some prodding, France Telecom has not yet updated its broadband HD voice numbers since reporting them last year in New York City. The numbers cited are assumed to mostly be in [...] 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 [...] SimpleSignal has added an HD voice conference bridge solution to its list of hosted PBX calling features and voice apps. Cost for the new service is a flat rate of $29 per month for up to 100 calls to participate in unlimited HD audio conference calls – volume discounts available. Use of the HD conference [...] While it’s not going to win any awards, Aastra (www.aastra.com) has put together a little video demonstrating the difference between G.711 and G.722 on its phones. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5G4pbsR3OI, the 53 second long video shows a guy with a too-clean desk picking up a G.711 phone handset, speaking into it – with the audio directly [...] Fraunhofer IIS, the folks that gave us MP3, is bragging about it plans to demonstrate “mobile phone calls in stereo CD quality” over a 4G cellular network at Mobile World Congress next week. Mobile World Congress will have HD voice falling out of the skies, if the rumors and releases are any indication. Today’s press release [...] NEC’s new UNIVERGE SP350 softphone will support the G.722 HD voice codec when it is released in the United States in the second quarter of 2010, said a spokesperson for the company. Updates to the company’s website to reflect support for G.722 are in progress and are not available line as of press time, but are [...] Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News At IT EXPO East 2010, Phone..com CTO Alon Cohen gave a relatively clear demonstration of the difference between “SD” voice (in the form of G.711) and HD voice with a pair of sound clips using the same spoken phrase. To hear the SD G.722 voice clip, click [...] Note: Ooma is a sponsor of HD Voice News HD voice is by no means a “slam dunk” in 2010. There are five significant problems the HD voice ecosystem of players need to address before victory can be declared and wideband calling is as at least as ubiquitous as VoIP calling. However, four out of five problems [...] Miami – Allworx (www.allworx.com) unveiled its latest IP phone. The new handset is a fully tuned HD voice capable device supporting G.722. The Allworx 9204 IP phone is optimized for HD voice whether speaking on the handset, a headset or on the built-in speaker phone. It includes a 192 x 64 LCD display, Power over Ethernet [...] |
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