Acme Packet lines up HD voice transcoding with AMR-WB, G.722 and EVRC-B

Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com), the dominant name in the session border control (SBC) space has rolled out heavy-duty support for HD voice, including codec management functions and transcoding functions for its Net-Net family.  One big surprise is support for EVRC-B, a narrowband voice codec for the CDMA world.

The new set of capabilities, called HD Voice – [...]

HD voice rumors this week

QUALCOMM made a visit to Verizon Wireless and demonstrated its HD Voice technology.   Don’t read too much into this, since carriers get a lot of tech demos.

Business broadband carrier MegaPath is thinking about a HD voice product for 2010.

HD Comm '09 – Tweets of ATSC Chairman, HD Innovation Panels presentations

The tweets presented below were sent during the HD Communications Summit, September 15, 2009.  Some formatting and selective spelling correction done for readability.

Robert Graves, Chairman, ATSC Forum

Graves – from Bell Labs/AT&T, got involved with video, went to ATSC
Graves – Spent lot of time evangelizing about ATSC/digital TV/HDTV
Graves – ATSC now a whole family of standards, [...]

Afternoon Tweets from the HD Communications Summit/HD Comm '09, September 15, 2009, New World Stages, New York, New York

This is a (laborously cut and paste) summary of the afternoon “tweets” posted from the HD Communications Summit on September 15; the morning will be posted later (hopefully after I figure out an easier way to process the morning Twitter-ing).

Chris Fine, VP Goldman Sachs

Lunch break over; Chris Fine of Goldman Sachs up to talk about [...]