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. [...]
BT Global Services has opened up a second IP Exchange (IPX) hub in Singapore, reports ZD Net. BT execs say IPX will lead to new revenues and the ability to stay competitive against over-the-top (OTT) providers, with HD voice providing revenue opportunities.
Once again, BT is talking up its transcoding solution available through its [...]
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 [...]
Korean-based SK Telecom and Hong Kong-CSL have announced a LTE roaming agreement using Telxtra’s IPX interconnect service. But there’s more to come, says a Telstra official.
“Leveraging QOS enabled networks allows Telstra International to control the quality of the voice call from the origin to the destination across markets in Asia, Europe and US,” [...]
Over the past month, BT Global Telecom has ramped up promotion of HD voice through several blog postings and UK interviews. The carrier is positioning itself as the place to go to exchange HD voice and other SIP services , but it is also waiving around an old idea on how to make money [...]