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Several requests have come in asking about HD voice companies to look for in Barcelona next week during Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here’s a short list– Codecs VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com) – Did you say “AMR-WB”? VoiceAge has formally launched its patent pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 and made the pricing more end-user friendly from what we can tell. Looks like [...] Note: Ooma is a sponsor of HD Voice News HD voice is by no means a “slam dunk” in 2010. There are five significant problems the HD voice ecosystem of players need to address before victory can be declared and wideband calling is as at least as ubiquitous as VoIP calling. However, four out of five problems [...] XConnect has divulged more information about its HD voice interoperability trial and a company official indicated that over “15 to 20″ U.S. service providers are interested in participating, including cable service providers and CLECs in North America, and service providers in Norway, Holland and Korea. Operators wishing to participate in the HD voice trial must be [...] After testing the waters at the HD Voice Summit at CES earlier this month, XConnect has formally announced its free trial for its HD voice peering federation. The trial, open to “qualified operators,” waives sign-up and monthly fees during a run from April to June. Under the trial, multiple providers will be able to test interoperability, [...] HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES, Las Vegas — XConnect released some information on a free trial for HD voice providers to the company’s Global Alliance platform and said more details will be defined and announced by IT EXPO. The announcement by XConnect Vice President Mark Benisz was greeted with a call for applause by Polycom [...] Tweeting to @DougonIPcomm, @radinfo thinks getting an HD phone is “too early” because there aren’t enough peer-to-peer interconnections right now. The first part of the premise is wrong, while the second part is — for now — correct. If a business are currently shopping for an IP PBX/IP telephony and/or VoIP handsets, you would be foolish NOT [...] This week XConnect announced it has raised $10 million in a second round (a.k.a. Series B) funding. There are multiple good-news pieces here for both the HD communications industry and for XConnect. For the HD Communications industry, XConnect has been promoting its “Interconnect 2.0″ concept. Seeing venture money flow into a company that does both Carrier [...] 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 [...] At the HD Comms ‘09 in New York on Tuesday, Voxbone will announce support for HD calling through its iNum service. Voxbone, a provider of international VoIP services and phone numbers to communication service providers, call centers, and multinational businesses, says that so long as both endpoints are HD-enabled, calls to iNum numbers will “convey a [...] Is an upgraded interconnection infrastructure necessary for HD communications? Eli Katz, president of XConnect, thinks so. XConnect is preaching the virtues of Interconnect 2.0, moving up the food change from simple SIP peering to a more sophisticated way for service providers to exchange IP traffic supporting end-to-end HD voice, video, and presence. “On the HD side, what [...] |
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