Digium adds “wideband” media engine, extended codec support into Asterisk 10 release

At AstriCon in Denver this week,  Digium (www.digium.com) announced it had added a “wide-band media engine” into the latest release of Asterisk.  The new support is hailed as the biggest upgrade to the software, including support for “an unlimited number” of codecs and support for SILK, 32kHz Speex, and pass-through support for CELT.  Plus there’s a [...]

RHUB adds HD voice with Speex

RHUB Communications, Inc. (www.rhubcom.com) has announced support for HD voice in the latest release of TurboMeeting.

TurboMeeting 4.3 now supports wideband voice sampled at 16kHz using the Speex codec.  A company spokesperson said support for G.722 will be “later.”

The TurboMeeting softphone enables users to conduct IP-based audio conferences with more than 200 participants from both PC and [...]

ageet adds HD voice support to mobile software, promises more

Ageet (www.ageet.com), a VoIP software developer based in Kyoto, Japan, has announced that its latest mobile softphone release will incorporate support for HD voice codecs — but not in today’s release.

The HD voice support for AGEphone Mobile, a Windows Mobile 6.5 client, is described as “pending” and the company indicates it has tested the SPEEX wideband [...]