Verizon VIPER looking at HD voice support by end of year

Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) introduction of VoIP Enterprise Routing – VIPER, not to be confused with Cisco’s VIPR – means no-toll domestic or international per-minute charges when calls are made between two Verizon VoIP customers in either the U.S. or Europe who are signed up for the feature.  Yes, it’s an all-SIP, no PSTN service feature [...]

From AstriCon: Rumors of AT&T running HD voice in San Antonio

AT&T is doing something with HD voice in San Antonio, but details are relatively sparse.  Sources say that AT&T is doing an in-house trial, but have not clarified if this would be a consumer or business service.

If true, AT&T would join Verizon as the second/other major North American carrier working with HD Voice. Verizon has [...]

Verizon in HD Voice – Ivan has it

Verizon has revealed more details to its internal HD voice deployment.  The company’s Basking Ridge, NJ headquarters campus has almost 5,000 users with Polycom HD phones — including Chairman/CEO Ivan Seidenberg.

The deployment started around a year ago, with executives and conference rooms getting the first wave of phones, followed by deployment to all the end-users [...]

HD Comm '09 – Verizon signs up for HD champagne, calls for revised VoIP tariffs

Verizon has installed HD voice in at least one of its locations and believes VoIP to be classed as a data service if it expects to make money and for HD interconnects to happen.

Speaking at the HD Communications Summit last week in New York City, Verizon Product Manager Alla Reznik declared there is a future [...]

Afternoon Tweets from the HD Communications Summit/HD Comm '09, September 15, 2009, New World Stages, New York, New York

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 [...]

Speakers, registration announced for HD Comm '09

Registration is now open for HD Comm ’09 and the schedule of speakers has been announced.

The one-day event will highlight advances in HD Communications, with participating speakers from (in no particular order) BroadCom, GIPS, WYDEVoice, AudioCodes, SpiritDSP, Polycom, Uniden, ZipDX, DSPGroup, XConnect, Gigaset, Dialogic, Verizon and Time Warner.