By Doug Mohney, on February 4th, 2012
Miami, FL and Washington DC – At the “HD Voice: Improving Voice Quality to Meet Demands of U.S. Customers” panel at IT EXPO East 2012, representatives from Polycom and Neutral Tandem revealed some numbers worth repeating.
Jeff Rodman, CTO and co-founder of Polycom, estimated that his company has shipped all total about three (3) million HD voice [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 1st, 2012
Miami, FL – A brief stop at the Digium (www.digium.com) booth at IT EXPO East revealed the following tidbits on the new family of IP phones–
1) The phone was designed and contracted solely by Digium — it is *not* a OEM/white label product.
2) Manufacture of the phone is done in China by one of those usual [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 1st, 2012
Miami, FL – There are at least three vendors touting new IP phones or software/firmware upgrades to their phones here at IT Expo. I thought we were done with handsets already?
Digium is getting a lot spin along with a good measure of WTF by rolling out its own IP phones; three to be exact, [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 19th, 2011
One of the two panels I moderated in Austin, TX last week was on migrating interconnections between TDM and IP to IMS (peering), but the real eye opener was talking to some of the hosted VoIP service providers on the show floor. Most of them didn’t know who Neutral Tandem or XConnect were and one… well… [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 2nd, 2011
HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be at IT EXPO West 2011 in Austin, Texas, from September 12 through September 14.
If you are seeking a briefing or announcing news, TMC’s media day on Monday starts at noon. It will be at the Austin Convention Center; contact TMC to schedule a briefing time.
Location updates during [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 7th, 2011
Traveling between ITEXPO in Miami and Washington DC, Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney tried to participate in the weekly VoIP Users Conference (#VUC). However, the mobile call into the bridge number kept dropping.
The @VUC moderators wanted to hear about the impact of IPv6 and if people were talking about HD Voice. Here is (More or less) what he [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 2nd, 2011
HD Voice News is currently or tentatively scheduling the following events for visits –
1Q 2011
The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, January 4-7, 2011, Las Vegas
CES Unveiled, Tuesday, January 4, The Sands Convention Center, 4-6 PM
Digital Experience, Wednesday, January 5, Caesars Palace, 7 PM-?
Lunch at Piero’s, Thursday, January 6, Piero’s, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM.
ShowStoppers, January 6, Wynn, 7 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 4th, 2010
Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be moderating two panels at IT EXPO West in Los Angeles:
“Meet the HD Handset Vendors” Tuesday, October 5, 8:30 AM to 10:15 AM.
IP-based communications solutions – yes, including UC – are here today, and every phone vendor is now supporting high definition (HD) voice at the same price as traditional VoIP [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 1st, 2010
Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News
At IT EXPO East 2010, Phone..com CTO Alon Cohen gave a relatively clear demonstration of the difference between “SD” voice (in the form of G.711) and HD voice with a pair of sound clips using the same spoken phrase.
To hear the SD G.722 voice clip, click here.
By Doug Mohney, on January 19th, 2010
After testing the waters at the HD Voice Summit at CES earlier this month, XConnect has formally announced its free trial for its HD voice peering federation. The trial, open to “qualified operators,” waives sign-up and monthly fees during a run from April to June.
Under the trial, multiple providers will be able to test interoperability, scalable [...]
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