Cincinnati Bell: Other Tier 1 carriers discussing HD voice peering

Cincinnati Bell’s Evolve hosted HD voice service is currently a stand-alone island, but other carriers – outside of the usual suspects – are starting to kick around the idea of peering HD voice calls directly.

Mike Herman, product manager for Evolve, said that conversations about HD voice peering had literally started in “the last 45 to 60 [...]

Alteva, SimpleSignal announce SIP peering alliance

Alteva and SimpleSignal have formally announced the creation of an IP Peering Alliance.  While the two companies are the first hosted business VoIP service providers to publicly announce a relation to interoperate at the VoIP and SIP level, a number of other companies are reportedly considering joining up. Direct video calls between the two company’s networks [...]

XConnect makes the case for Interconnect 2.0

Is an upgraded interconnection infrastructure necessary for HD communications? Eli Katz, president of XConnect, thinks so.

XConnect is preaching the virtues of Interconnect 2.0, moving up the food change from simple SIP peering to a more sophisticated way for service providers to exchange IP traffic supporting end-to-end HD voice, video, and presence.

“On the HD side, what we’re [...]