HD Voice news out of VoiceCon Orlando 2010 (The Last Dance)

If you didn’t catch the news, VoiceCon is now being transmorgified into Enterprise Connect.  More details can be found here at www.dougonipcomm.com.  FYI, TechWeb won’t be holding a fall Enterprise Connect event in San Francisco.

The biggest single theme for the HD voice community is the dual push by Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com) and Cisco [...]

Polycom adds HD voice phones for Microsoft Communications Server “14”

Polycom (www.polycom.com) has added a brace of HD voice phones to support Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) Communications Server “14.”

Getting feted at VoiceCon Orlando this week, Microsoft Communications Server “14” will get three new “optimized” Polycom HD voice devices, two handsets and an IP conference phone.  The new phones are the first “Microsoft-optimized” phones to [...]

Acme Packet lines up HD voice transcoding with AMR-WB, G.722 and EVRC-B

Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com), the dominant name in the session border control (SBC) space has rolled out heavy-duty support for HD voice, including codec management functions and transcoding functions for its Net-Net family.  One big surprise is support for EVRC-B, a narrowband voice codec for the CDMA world.

The new set of capabilities, called HD [...]

HD Voice-related events in March

Webinars

“Part 1: The Year of HD”,” Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM EST

TMC (www.tmcnet.com) is hosting, Dialogic (www.dialogic.com) is sponsoring and attendees will learn about the surging use of HD voice in North American and around the globe; Advantages of HD voice over a regular PSTN call and; How affordable HD voice [...]

HD Voice News on site at VoiceCon 2010 Orlando

Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be at VoiceCon 2010 in Orlando from the early afternoon of Tuesday, March 23 through Wednesday, March 24 at about 3-3:30 PM.

Anyone seeking briefings or to just catch up should email him directly at dmohney@hdvoicenews.com.

Polycom's other HD voice release at VoiceCon

This week at VoiceCon, Polycom also underlined the use of its Siren 14/G.7221C voice codec by Vivox.

Vivox, the market leader in providing voice services for developers of online games, virtual words and “the social web,” said it delivers voice chat to over 16 million users and support billions of minutes of chat per [...]