IT EXPO East 2012–General Telecom launches HD voice hosted private label solution

Miami FL – General Telecom (www.gentel.net) has joined the hosted VoIP world, offering a “cost effective, scalable” private label hosted VoIP solution.  The white label VoIP solution supports G.722.

The white label VoIP program allows VARs, interconnects, ISPs, system integrations and “other non-traditional service providers” to sell hosted IP PBX and SIP services (Hmm, HD Voice [...]

Virtual PBX announces “VoIP Anywhere” with HD voice support

Virtual PBX (www.virtualpbx.com) announced the latest enhancements to its hosted PBX service, VoIP Anywhere.  The service can be accessed through any standard softphone, including clients on Android and the Apple iOS family.  

Devices appear as VoIP extensions in the Virtual PBX system, so calls made include full access to all system features, including business caller ID [...]

XO intros HD voice and video service; working with Neutral Tandem for “off-net” calls

At Enterprise Connect in Orlando, XO Communications launched its new Enterprise Cloud Communications service featuring HD voice and video.  It also revealed it is working with Neutral Tandem for exchanging SIP calls with other carriers in the future.

XO Enterprise Cloud Communications puts together local and long distance calling, enterprise-wide HD voice and video, network services and [...]

Polycom goes UC crazy, announces cloud solution with Broadsoft, Android-based app, Microsoft H.264 SVC support.

Voice and video hardware manufacturer Polycom (www.polycom.com) went a little UC-crazy today, with a trio of announcements including a cloud solution with BroadSoft (www.broadsoft.com), an Android-based client for Samsung’s GALAXY Tab, and Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) lining up to support Polycom’s H.264 SVC technology for video.

BroadSoft and Polycom have teamed up to roll out a hosted UC cloud [...]

XO plans new hosted offering with HD voice in Q1 2011

XO Communications is planning to roll out HD voice service in a new hosted offering in the first quarter of 2011.  Perhaps this is one of the “major carriers” Cincinnati Bell and Metaswitch Networks were hinting at over the past two weeks

The news came in a In a brief email exchange with a spokesperson from XO [...]

Cloud Communications Alliance emerges, embraces HD voice

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 CCA [...]

HD voice gets a CrystalBlue Lite boost

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 is [...]

VoIP providers FreecoNet, Edge Solutions offer HD voice in Poland

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 and [...]

Broadvox lines up behind HD voice with new hosted product

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 separating [...]

MegaPath starts scooting towards HD voice

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.

In [...]