Tata Communications has officially announced an HD voice call routing service, joining the club of IPX providers and other intermediaries.
Mobile network operators (MNOs) would use Tata’s service to route international HD voice calls via end-to-end IP without transcoding “ensuring that HD customers calling HD-compatible destinations internationally will receive the full HD experience,” [...]
Orange has launched an international HD voice call exchange, making it available to third-party operators and service providers.
The service is operated by Orange’s wholesale group and provides a single IP connection point and full IP routing for end-to-end HD voice service quality. For businesses, Orange is offering HD voice on IPX via [...]
KPN wholesale has lined up nine Dutch-based carriers for its IP interconnection service. The report in Telecompaper indicates five service providers have or will connect by the end of the year and another four networks will be connected at the beginning of next year.
Participating providers include CaiWay (CAIW), Dean Connect (DEAN), Edutel [...]
IntelePeer made two HD voice interconnection announcements in October, but trying to parse through the marketing speak has proved to be painful. The company can route G.722 calls via its CoreCloud product and has a federation-style offering for BroadSoft customers under the name of Fluent.
With CoreCloud, IntelePeer supports G.722 via SIP trunking. [...]
Orange (France Telecom) has mobile HD voice calls moving seamlessly between Moldova and Romania, the first official announcement of interop between two mobile networks. This announcement hits an HD voice interoperability goal the carrier announced back in 2011. Further in the release, the company notes it how has “almost” 4 million HD voice customers [...]
The Cloud Communications Alliance is currently looking over three hardware solutions to provide SIP interconnectivity between its members. Co-founder Dean Parker said a decision is expected shortly to pick one vendor and start building several exchange points.
Parker said the exchange will have three main exchange points, with Dallas, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles [...]
IT EXPO West 2012 – 8×8 says its customers love HD voice, but it is not moving any traffic outside of its own network.
“We’ve gotten very good feedback from customers,” said VP if Business Development Huw Rees. “They really enjoy it, they really like the quality. But we’ve got to find a way [...]
Aicent (www.aicent.com) announced it has joined the i3 Forum, becoming the 47th member of the community of operators and service providers dedicated to advanced IP interconnectivity.
The company says it serves more than three billion mobile users around the world, operating one of the world’s largest mobile IPX network exchanges connecting to over 200 [...]
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 [...]
This week, KPN-subsidiary IBasis announced Reliance Communications (RCom)will be joining the iBasis IPX (IP eXchange) network.
IPX services, such as IBasis’, provide full-blown SIP exchange with Quality of Service (QoS) to support services such as HD voice, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and videoconferencing. IPX is necessary for LTE roaming and provides high-quality VoIP in [...]