Grandstream goes under $100 for HD voice handset

Grandstream Networks (www.grandstream.com) has announced a $95 list price HD voice phone, the GXP285.

Targeted at the small business, the single-line GXP285 includes dual 10/100M Ethernet ports and integrated PoE (Power over Ethernet), a 128×32 LCD, full-duplex speakerphone with acoustic echo cancellation, up to 2 line appearances allowing 2 simultaneous calls, 3 XML programmable soft [...]

HD voice gets a CrystalBlue Lite boost

Whaleback Systems (http://www.whalebacksystems.com) has announced a managed business service optimized for SIP trunks plus a new carrier partner program for selling the service to the SMB market.

CrystalBlue Lite is a managed VoIP offering specifically designed for carriers deploying SIP trunks and includes a “carrier-class” fault-tolerant IP PBX appliance at the customer site. The “low-cost” appliance [...]

Bandwidth.com differentiates Phonebooth service with HD voice

Bandwidth.com (www.bandwidth.com) is quietly using HD voice as one of value-added features to differentiate between its free and pay Phonebooth.com small business service.

The Phonebooth Free service supplies a free phone number, 200 minutes per month of free inbound local calling – 6 cents per minute additional – auto attendant, extensions, voicemail, voicemail to email, Find [...]

IT EXPO East 2010 – CommniGate going HD voice across the board

Miami – CommuniGate Systems has upgraded its entire Unified Communications product suite to incorporate HD voice and G.722.

Speaking at a afternoon panel at IT EXPO, Vice President Jon Doyle indicated that a formal announcement would be coming soon.  CommuniGate has also posted a note on its website indicating the company will be demoing the new [...]

Hosted VoIP provider Junction Networks adds HD voice support

Junction Networks has added HD voice support to all of its on-network and conference bridge calls, laying claim to being the first provide doing both.

The company’s OnSIP Virtual PBX is now defined as “Wideband-ready” and on-network HD voice calls will be free as are current vanilla VoIP calls.  OnSIP is supporting G.722 as the HD [...]

Phone.com launches hosted HD Voice service for SMBs

Editor’s note: Phone.com and ooma are sponsors of www.hdconnectnow.org

Phone.com has announced the introduction of its new HD Business Phone service, adding to the company’s portfolio of VoIP Virtual Office Services.   Businesses can purchase their own HD IP phones to complement their Phone.com Virtual Office account or purchase a phone from phone.com to use the service.

This [...]