By Doug Mohney, on June 3rd, 2010
Snom technologies AG (www.snom.com) has launched the snom 821, a new IP phone that incorporates a gigabit Ethernet switch.
The snom 821 is expected to be fully available in the U.S. by the end of the second quarter – which would mean by the end of June. Like the snom 870 line, the 821 is available [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 20th, 2009
Glendale AZ & Washington DC – A few examples of the many, many G.722/HD voice capable phones available off-the-shelf today. As noted previously, one had to look carefully to find a non-G.722 phone.
Cisco SPA 5xx IP phone line
Cisco’s SPA5xx line of SMB IP phones all have G.722 built-in. You’ll note the range of options [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 15th, 2009
Glendale, AZ – Walking the exhibit floor, it was difficult to find a handset that didn’t have HD voice embedded in it. Well-known names such as Cisco, Panasonic, Polycom, and snom, as well as newcomers Aksys Networks and Yealink all had G.722 handsets available for viewing.
Cisco’s line of SPA5xx IP phones — including a $130 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 16th, 2009
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 26th, 2009
Enterprise: Ready
Consumer: Coming
SMB: A few
Mobile: Waiting
Vendors discussed/cited: ADTRAN, AudioCodes, Avaya, Cisco, Gigaset (Siemens), ooma, Polycom, snom
Enterprise: Ready
You don’t have to try very hard to find G.722 support for enterprise-grade IP phones. All of the usual suspects have G.722 codecs in one or more of their handset lines.
Avaya says all of its handsets already support G.722 [...]