By Doug Mohney, on September 28th, 2011
DSP Group (www.dspg.com) announced silicon design wins with Gigaset and Sagemcom DECT phones, including CAT-iq 2.0 certification for the Sagemcom phone.
The Gigaset SL901/SL901A and DX800A incorporate DSP Group’s XciteR ARM-based silicon running Linux and a “strong” DSP processor, according to the company. XciteR is also incorporated into Gigaset’s DX600A, DL500A, and DECT IP C610/C610A IP. The [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 8th, 2011
Dallas, Texas – Gigaset (www.gigaset.com) is showing off U.S. support for 7 kHz analog HD voice on its existing hardware. The capability can be added to existing Gigaset HD voice phones via a simple firmware download, but the emphasis will likely be on newer model handsets.
A demonstration at a distributor event in Dallas today used a [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 23rd, 2011
The DECT Forum has issued CAT-iq 2.0 certificates for three different cordless phones and vendors. Gigaset Communications, Samsung Electronics and VTech Telecommunications all had a product that made it through the qualifications process.
CAT-iq handsets certified are the Gigaset C300H iq, Samsung SMT-W3510 and the VTech Advant 5000; yesterday VTech was claiming the Advant was the Very [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 8th, 2011
Las Vegas – Gigaset Communications (www.gigaset.com) announced a new HD Voice/DECT phone at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and plans to import a pair of SMB-style desktop phone currently shipping in Europe to the U.S.
Gigaset Product and Marketing Manager Tony Stankus said the new C610A IP incorporates a list of features specifically requested [...]
By Doug Mohney, on March 11th, 2010
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 carriers [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 27th, 2009
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 is [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 16th, 2009
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 HD [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 26th, 2009
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 while [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 3rd, 2009
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 [...]
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