HD Communications Summit West – May 12. 2010

While there’s no web page up yet, email is circulating for a HD Communications Summit event to take place in Silicon Valley on May 12, 2010.

The event is schedule to take place at the Computer History Museum (www.computerhistory.org) and the email says “we have room for 150 delegates, 25 speakers, and 6 sponsors.” 

In addition, [...]

Aastra and TurboBridge announce HD voice team-up

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 [...]

Skype releases source code for SILK

Credit where credit is due: @voiploser and Michael Graves provided this tip

In its latest filing with the ITEF, Skype (www.skype.com) released the source code to SILK under an open license, with the code presented as an appendix to the filing.

Codec junkies can review “draft-vos-silk-01” at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vos-silk-01, with the fixed-point C code starting at page 28 [...]

GIPS lands HD voice in Turkey

Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) has secured Argela Technologies, a subsidary of Turk Telekom, as a customer for VoiceEngine Mobile to insure “excellent” call quality on TT’s WiRO mobile soft client.

TT WiRO works like most other soft clients these days, allowing customers to avoid international roaming charges by using WiFi and a broadband connection.  Customers can [...]

Largest G.722 HD voice deployments around the globe

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 [...]

TurboBridge focuses on HD voice conferencing without the whistles

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 [...]

HD Voice-related events in March

Webinars

“Part 1: The Year of HD”,” Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM EST

TMC (www.tmcnet.com) is hosting, Dialogic (www.dialogic.com) is sponsoring and attendees will learn about the surging use of HD voice in North American and
around the globe; Advantages of HD voice over a regular PSTN call and; How affordable HD voice is compared to simple [...]

8×8 Hosted HD Voice now available over New Edge Networks

New Edge Networks, the business services side of Earthlink, has announced that 8×8 has joined its “ecosystem” of business applications.  New Edge business customers can access 8×8’s hosted HD voice network via MPLS and 8×8 customers can ride New Edge’s MPLS network with all the advantages it carries, such as end-to-end traffic prioritization and predictable [...]

SimpleSignal announces HD voice conference bridge

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 [...]

Recent HD voice pieces published on other news sites

HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney has published a handful of pieces at other sites over the past month–

TechEye (www.techeye.net)

The Two Minute Guide to mobile HD voice

TMC (www.tmcnet.com)

A Half-Full Glass of HD Voice from Mobile World Congress – And Getting Fuller

Who is ‘Doing’ HD Voice? Five Companies to Think About

Conferencing: The ‘Killer App’ for [...]