HD Comm '09 / HD Communications Summit, Sept 15 2009 - Compiled materials

This is the best and most complete compilation so far of the various materials — articles, Twitter summaries, and presentations — from the September 15, 2009  HD Communications Summit in New York City; the presentations in particular should be MUCH easier to find.

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HD Comm '09 – Summary of the Summary – It's the HD Voice ecosystem

Many of the presentations at the HD Communications Summit last week boiled down to one thing – It’s all about the ecosystem for HD Voice, not just piece parts or codecs.

In a summary of last week’s proceedings, Jack MacLeod, a Principal Vice President at CTO at Bechtel had “ecosystem” highlighted on many of his PowerPoint [...]

HD Comm '09 – Verizon signs up for HD champagne, calls for revised VoIP tariffs

Verizon has installed HD voice in at least one of its locations and believes VoIP to be classed as a data service if it expects to make money and for HD interconnects to happen.

Speaking at the HD Communications Summit last week in New York City, Verizon Product Manager Alla Reznik declared there is a future [...]

Jeff Pulver summarizes HD Comm '09

In a blog posting “The VoIP Industry ReBoot Continues,”  Jeff Pulver summarizes his thoughts on last week’s proceedings.  We present it here so you don’t have to click over…

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September 17, 2009
The VoIP Industry ReBoot Continues

On Tuesday, September 15th, the second HD Communications Summit took place in New York City. This conference brought together the emerging [...]

HD Comm '09 – Tweets of Polycom, Uniden, HD in Action panel presentations

The tweets presented below were sent during the HD Communications Summit, September 15, 2009.  Some formatting and selective spelling correction done for readability.

Jeff Rodman, CTO Voice Division, Polycom

Rodman – Thinking about consumer pull. Who is not convinced? Some pubs are “already there” HD wireline, want to know about HD wireless
Rodman – Is it a [...]

HD Comm '09 – Tweets of ATSC Chairman, HD Innovation Panels presentations

The tweets presented below were sent during the HD Communications Summit, September 15, 2009.  Some formatting and selective spelling correction done for readability.

Robert Graves, Chairman, ATSC Forum

Graves – from Bell Labs/AT&T, got involved with video, went to ATSC
Graves – Spent lot of time evangelizing about ATSC/digital TV/HDTV
Graves – ATSC now a whole family of standards, [...]

HD Comm '09 – Tweets of AudioCodes, GIPS, Wyde Voice presentations

The tweets presented below were sent during the HD Communications Summit, September 15, 2009.  Some formatting and selective spelling correction done for readability.

Alan Percy, Director Market Development, AudioCodes

Alan Percy, Dir Mkt Develpment, AudioCodes takes stage. How do we get to “our dream” of HD. Awareness/education one step, very important
Percy – Feeding bloggers, formation of HDConnect [...]

Wyde Voice announces HD SoftBridge at HD Communications Summit

At the HD Communications Summit, Wyde Voice announced HD SoftBridge, its HD audio and web conferencing bridge technology in software form.  The new tech eliminates the need for DSP cards so audio conference providers can use off-the-shelf hardware to setup conferencing bridges that scale from 2 to 10,000 concurrent user ports with multiple cards/blades.

HD SoftBridge [...]

Opening remarks/comments on HD Communications Summit via Twitter

Morning Twitter coverage of HD Communications Summit on September 15, 2009 – Opening remarks

#HDComms ‘09 event starting. Emphasis on Moldova — first country of HD voice
#HDComms Berninger HD vendors “Collectively fighting ignorance” in letting people know that there’s an alternative to standard voice
#HDComms Pulver – HD chance to “Make a lot of money”
Pulver – [...]

HD Comm '09 – HD Communications Summit, Fall 09 – MacLeod wrap-up

Jake MacLeod’s wrap-up of the proceedings at the HD Communications Summit/HD Comm ‘09 on September 15, 2009, at New World Stages in New York City is now available in the original PowerPoint format.

It can be accessed here. A derivative work of the highlights in blog form (i.e. text-based) is expected to be posted tomorrow.