While nobody wants to talk about it on the record, turning up HD voice for residential customers over the existing cable infrastructure is not simple. Issue stem from legacy equipment in existing networks, compatibility issues between IP phones and even between manufacturer implementations using the same chipset.
Seeking to make friends among the MSOs, snom (www.snom.com) is showing off its business phones for IP voice and Lync hosted solutions.
Making its first appearance here, the company is featuring (at booth 1321) its snom UC edition “qualified for Microsoft Lync” phones, including the 300 UC, 370 UC, 821 UC and Lync “optimized” [...]
KPN subsidiary iBasis and TI Sparkle, the international services arm of Telecom Italia Group have turned up a multiservice IPX peering connection. The new interconnection will support the exchange of multiple media types, including voice, signaling and GRX traffic generated by and destined for network operators connected to each carrier’s IPX and ensure end-to-end [...]
Sprint (www.sprint.com) has sent out a flurry of announcements this morning trumpeting the arrival of the HTC EVO 4G LTE phone at its stories around the country, including Northern California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Miami, FL and the Washington D.C. area. The press releases all include a reference to “future HD Voice capabilities (1).” [...]
It’s been a busy month of HD voice articles at TMC, including an interview around the making of the 2012 HD Voice Report “Proliferation.”
TMC Group Editorial Director Erik Linask interviewed HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney about the second annual HD voice report and what went into its assembly and production.
Voice processing technology company Audience went public this week, putting roughly 5.3 million shares on NASDAQ at a starting list price of $17 per share. The company’s stock, under the ticker symbol “ADNC,” opened at $19 a share on Thursday, May 10 and closed the first day of trading at $19.40.
At CTIA’s show this week, Leap Wireless was underlining its commitment to CDMA 1X Advanced technology. The company plans to have the HD voice-enabling tech in all of its new phones, with a bunch of 1X Advanced models coming out in the second half of 2012. But no word if it will use the [...]
In conjunction with CTIA this week, Sprint (www.sprint.com) will make the HTC EVO 4G LTE (HE4L) on May 18, with preorders started on May 7. The phone will cost $199.99 with a new line of service, upgrade and two-year service agreement (before taxes). It is now framing the phone for its “future HD voice [...]
D2 Technologies has announced its latest OEM partnership, this time with GCT Semiconductor. D2 will provide its mCUE 4G converged communications client to be combined with GCT’s GDM7240 single chip full-band FDD-LTE.
GCT’s GDM7240 supports all LTE frequency band classes and bandwidths. D2’s mCUE, highly integrated and optimized for Android OS, provides a [...]
Sangoma (www.sangoma.com) Technologies has announced the availability of its NetBorder Transcoding Gateway. The 1U enterprise appliance comes at a good time, as it supports transcoding between narrowband and HD voice codecs, as well as between different HD voice codecs, such as G.722 and AMR-WB.
For those on lossy networks, codecs such as iBLC can [...]