BT: You say HD voice, it says “Hi-dS (High definition sound)” – 2 million endpoints?

BT (www.bt.com) does indeed provide G.722 HD voice through various consumer products.  However, there’s no mention of G.722, HD voice, or wideband voice on the BT website; BT’s marketing speak calls it “Hi-dS (High definition sound)".

Sources working with BT say the carrier has purchased and deployed up to 2 million HD voice endpoints, but the [...]

Phone.com launches hosted HD Voice service for SMBs

Editor’s note: Phone.com and ooma are sponsors of www.hdconnectnow.org

Phone.com has announced the introduction of its new HD Business Phone service, adding to the company’s portfolio of VoIP Virtual Office Services.   Businesses can purchase their own HD IP phones to complement their Phone.com Virtual Office account or purchase a phone from phone.com to use the service.

This [...]

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 [...]

Snapshot – HD phones: Enterprise ready; Consumer coming

Enterprise: Ready
Consumer: Coming
SMB: A few
Mobile: Waiting

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 [...]

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.