By Doug Mohney, on August 23rd, 2011
XConnect (www.xconnect.net) is touting an AudioCodes HD voice transcoding solution between wireline and wireless networks for its HD Alliance customers. The Alliance is an IP-based federation with 11 service providers.
The new capability uses XConnect’s carrier-ENUM registry and IP interconnection services along with AudioCodes’ Mediant 3000 transcoding solution. XConnect says the solution has been “tested” and “certified” [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 21st, 2011
Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com) has added a hardware transcoding unit to its Net-Net 3820 and 4500 Session Border Control (SBC) Platforms.
The Transcoding Network Interface Unit (NIU), one of two announced today, adds hardware-based transcoding to Acme Packet’s 1RU (1 rack unit) platform family. The NIU family features onboard QoS monitoring and reporting and four 1 Gbps Ethernet [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 14th, 2011
France Telecom has launched a major offensive for HD voice today, declaring it wants to “open up” the use of HD Voice communications by 2013. The company says it now has one million (1M) mobile HD voice users, and has further launches planned this year, particularly in the AMEA (Africa, Middle East, and Asia) region. And [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 14th, 2011
Sonus Networks (www.sonusnetworks.com) has released a software update adding support for “key” HD voice codecs for its media gateway, network border switch, and PSX products. One “of the top five mobile operators” in Europe is reportedly trialing Sonus’s new software to support an HD voice service for its mobile customers.
The latest release adds seamless interworking between [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 7th, 2010
Los Angeles – Aculab (www.aculab.com) said it is currently putting Skype SILK transcoding through its quality assurance process with a targeted Q4 2010 release date (i.e. by the end of the year).
SILK transcoding will be supported through Prosody S software, but only at sampling rates of 8 kHz (narrowband) and 16 kHz (wideband); the company won’t [...]
By Doug Mohney, on April 6th, 2010
“Part 2: Interconnecting HD voice and Video: Options galore,” sponsored by Dialogic and TMC, will take place on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 2 PM EST. Presenters include Martyn Davies, Director of Technology, Dialogic and Doug Mohney, Editor-in-Chief HD Voice News / HD Videoconferencing News.
From the webinar description–
Service providers and carriers of all shapes [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 10th, 2010
Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney is being compensated by TMC for his participation in the webinars.
TMC is putting on a pair of HD voice webinars in March and April, with sponsorship being provided by Dialogic.
“The Year of HD Voice” will take place on Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM ET and will discuss the surging use of HD voice [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 25th, 2010
Note: Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News
VoiceAge has plans to send out a formal press release about revised pricing to its AMR-WB patent pool next week.
At IT EXPO East in Miami last week, the company discussed “aggressive” pricing changes that were favorably received by developers in attendance and said details were available at http://www.voiceage.com/licamrwb.php. [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 3rd, 2009
Aculab has announced its Prosody X and Prosody media products now support more wideband codecs. The company has officially added support for G.722, G.722.1 and G.722.2/AMR-WB.
In a press release this morning, Aculab says the inclusion of the G.722 series codecs gives its Prosody X media processing boards and the Prosody S software platform the “largest range” [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 15th, 2009
Glendale, AZ – Dialogic plans to unveil its first HD voice-supporting media server products in the first quarter of 2009, and a gateway product in the months following.
“HD is very important for us,” said Steve Gladstone, Dialogic Senior VP/GM, Media Enabling Product Group. The new media servers are enhancements of existing products and will be capable [...]
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