By Doug Mohney, on February 1st, 2012
IT EXPO East 2012, Miami – Digium (www.digium.com) has rolled out the “World’s First Phones Designed for Asterisk.” There’s a trio of new IP handsets. All of them support G.722 out of the box.
In the company’s press release, Digium says the new family of phones are the first engineered to “fully leverage the power of [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 25th, 2012
From the Czech Republic, Acrobits has released the latest versions of its iPhone client. Both versions support G.722 in addition to a “SmoothFlow” video technology for video calling. An Android client is expected to launch in the the second quarter of this year.
Consumers will get SIP Phone while business users can buy Groundwire. The SIP Phone [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 15th, 2011
Invoxia (www.invoxia.com) has announced the NVX 610, a VoIP phone with an iThings (iPhone/iPhone/iPad) dedicated app to enable dialing from the iThing, plus facilitate “mobile convergence.” You can receive calls to an iThing mobile as well as VoIP based calls.
The big draw/brag with the NVX 610 is a total of eight 8 mics and 8 “high-quality” [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 12th, 2011
Polycom’s new Microsoft’s Lync solutions don’t speak Microsoft RTA. Instead, the SIP standard devices and phones will all talk through Lync using G.722 and G.722.1 (Siren) for HD voice support.
Polycom announced “the broadest ranges of UC solutions” interoperable with Microsoft’s UC platform last week, citing over 40 systems, including a “custom-built” video collaboration solution, the [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 21st, 2011
At IP Convergence in Paris, Technnicolor (www.technicolor.com) announced a new entry-level SIP phone. Now if they’d only use the term “HD voice” instead of “HD sound.” However, the phone supports not one, but two common HD voice codec.
The announcement came as a part of a larger one showcasing Technicolor’s MediaAccess communications products.
Designed for the SME, [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 13th, 2011
Lantiq (www.lantiq.com) has added CAT-iq-like support to its latest 2.4 GHz chipset, including wideband voice.
The new COSIC™ WDCT chipset is targeted for inclusion into cordless handsets to be sold in Asia-Pacific countries and emerging markets that use 2.4 GHz.
Support for G.722 is included for both encoding and transmission, along with “advanced” acoustic cancellation to support “brilliant” [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 6th, 2011
Two vendors supplying hardware to Deutsche Telekom (DT)have touted their support for HD voice over CAT-iq, but it isn’t clear if DT is formally supporting HD voice via broadband.
Today’s announcement from DSP Group and a May announcement by Lantiq touting CAT-iq 2.0 means the company is deploying HD voice-capable equipment, but there are few references [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 25th, 2011
Grandstream Networks (www.grandstream.com) is offering two new HD voice handsets, with one listing at $49; the other at $55.
The GXP1100 and 1105 are targeted at SMB and the hospitality industry as affordable entry-level HD voice SIP phones; it should be noted Grandstream dips into ambiguity by using the phrase “HD audio” as well as using “HD [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 23rd, 2011
XConnect (www.xconnect.net) is touting an AudioCodes HD voice transcoding solution between wireline and wireless networks for its HD Alliance customers. The Alliance is an IP-based federation with 11 service providers.
The new capability uses XConnect’s carrier-ENUM registry and IP interconnection services along with AudioCodes’ Mediant 3000 transcoding solution. XConnect says the solution has been “tested” and “certified” [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 18th, 2011
Last month, Siemens Enterprise Communications announced the OpenStage 5 SIP phone.
The SIP-only phone, along with the other members of the OpenStage family supporting SIP, includes G.722 and “AudioPresence™ HD.” The AudioPresence™ HD package includes best-in-class speaker, microphone, and acoustic components, advanced noise rejection and echo cancellation.
OpenStage5 is an entry-level phone with 8 programmable key; it [...]
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