Dialogic sponsors TMC webinars on HD voice

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 [...]

VoiceAge confirms AMR-WB patent pool pricing revisions

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 [...]

Aculab adds more HD Voice codec support

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 [...]

AstriCon 2009 – Dialogic talks HD voice media server

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 [...]

HD wireless to wireline – The other transcoding headache

Going through the tweets and notes of last week’s HD Communications Summit / HD Comm ‘09, there’s another reason why transcoding isn’t the best solution to moving between AMR-WB and G.722 — added latency.

While transcoding processes may be very fast, the process is not a non-zero one and adds some amount of latency into both [...]

The "hole" in the HD voice equasion – wireless to broadband

One of the “It’s not going to be perfect” issues emerging with the rollout of HD voice on wireless networks is the ability to transcode between AMR-WB — the current “standard” for mobile HD codecs — and G.722, the de facto HD voice standard on broadband and enterprise networks.

Last week at the HD Communications Summit, [...]