By Doug Mohney, on July 28th, 2010
AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) has rolled out Enterprise Session Border Controller (SBC) capabilities for its Mediant platforms.
The company says the new capabilities target a growing market for a range of IP-enabled services at the enterprise, including SIP trunking, Hosted IP-PBX, remote extension, and contact center and conferencing services.
AudioCodes says the solution addresses the needs of users [...]
By Doug Mohney, on March 22nd, 2010
AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) has gone SIP wild over the past two weeks, announcing support for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) and Skype for SIP.
Last week, the company announced its SIP Phone Support (SPS) for Microsoft Unified Communications, enabling “economically affordable” connections to Microsoft OCS via standard SIP IP phones. A direct connection to OCS is supported [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 29th, 2009
If you don’t feel like plowing through all of the HD Communications Summit pieces, here’s a recap of what went on.
1) Jeff Pulver can still pull over 100 of the “right people” to an event just after InterOp and just before the U.S. Memorial Day weekend.
2) The baseline for a PSTN/POTS phone call hasn’t changed [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 26th, 2009
Unlike the start of VoIP and VON oh-so-long-ago (circa 1997), HD voice is much further down the technology path in terms of technology and deployment. Islands of HD usage are appearing at major corporations, while BT, France Telecom (FT), and T-Mobile are all deploying HD within their territories in Europe. FT expects to be able [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 22nd, 2009
At yesterday’s HD Communications Summit, most equipment manufacturers said they would like to see fewer HD codecs and an “HD voice” logo to slap on to their boxes and gear. Discussion also took place on the relative virtues of a “free” codec and the intellectual property issues associated with free codecs.
Handset manufacturers Polycom and Snom [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 7th, 2009
Things you might want to know for Thursday, May 7–
Cox comes over with a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem for trial.
Vonage has their Q1 earnings report out (Good look with that…)
Yesterday, AudioCodes reported its quarterly earnings; they lost money in the Q1 due to Nortel disintegrating, but no big surprise there.