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Eight business VoIP service providers have more formally joined together as the Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA). The newly created organization says it represents more than $100 million in combined annual revenue and collectively serve more than 110,000 businesses in the United States – and it wants to make good on HD voice peering. Members of the [...] Whaleback Systems (http://www.whalebacksystems.com) has announced a managed business service optimized for SIP trunks plus a new carrier partner program for selling the service to the SMB market. CrystalBlue Lite is a managed VoIP offering specifically designed for carriers deploying SIP trunks and includes a “carrier-class” fault-tolerant IP PBX appliance at the customer site. The “low-cost” appliance [...] BankierPress and TMC Net unearth HD voice service providers in Eastern Europe. FreecoNet is described as the largest VoIP operator in Poland with an estimated share of about 40 percent of the pure-play VoIP market and about 65,000 to 70,000 active customers. If the Google translation is correct, FreecoNet first offered HD voice in May [...] During its partner summit, Broadvox (www.broadvox.com) became the latest provider to offer HD voice support. Its newly announced GO!Hosted product lists “HD voice quality” among its many features. GO!Hosted is being touted as “approximately two-thirds less” than what is being charged by (most other) hosted VoIP providers for similar services, with cost savings being delivered by [...] Managed service provider MegaPath (www.megapath.com) is quietly scooting up to HD voice, if the signs from Google and its blog are worth looking into. While the company hasn’t formally said it does HD voice, searching for “HD Voice” via Google typically pops up MegaPath’s “Cloud-Powered Biz VoIP” sponsored ad at the top of the search results. [...] Bandwidth.com (www.bandwidth.com) is quietly using HD voice as one of value-added features to differentiate between its free and pay Phonebooth.com small business service. The Phonebooth Free service supplies a free phone number, 200 minutes per month of free inbound local calling – 6 cents per minute additional – auto attendant, extensions, voicemail, voicemail to email, Find [...] 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 [...] Not disclosing numbers on its initial efforts, Optimum Lightpath is apparently selling a lot of hosted HD voice, if the one line comment HD Voice News received to an inquiry earlier this week. “While we do not disclose number of endpoints, we can say that demand has exceeded our best expectations. This is a [...] Junction Networks has added HD voice support to all of its on-network and conference bridge calls, laying claim to being the first provide doing both. The company’s OnSIP Virtual PBX is now defined as “Wideband-ready” and on-network HD voice calls will be free as are current vanilla VoIP calls. OnSIP is supporting G.722 as the HD [...] 8×8 Vice President of Business Development Huw Rees will discuss the company’s HD voice technology and strategy in greater detail during the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show HD Voice Summit being held on Wednesday, January 6 from 1 – 5:30 p.m. in Las Vegas. 8×8 has formally announced its upgrade to its VoIP network supporting G.722, enabling [...] |
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