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Over the past week, I’ve been pulling together information to pump up the HDConnectNow website, www.hdconnectnow.org. Here’s a summary of the different thought pieces and the coverage of the first HD Communications Summit back in May (May! How time flies…) Thought pieces on HD Communications HD Communications: The Third Wave HD Communications [...] Videoconferencing and telepresence rigs provide more information for communications options, but HD voice may prove to be the quickest and most cost-effective upgrade for businesses of all sizes. Don’t get me wrong; TANDBERG and Polycom and all the other visual-solutions have their place in the scheme of things, but they are A) expensive B) [...] I had two separate calls today, each with its own unique high-touch component. On the first call, I logged into the weekly VoIP User’s conference session using ZipDX and G.722. Featured speaker was Anthony Stankus, Gigaset Communications product manager for North America — needless to say, he was drinking his own champaigne by using [...] Business VoIP provider 8×8 is getting ready for the introduction of high-quality voice services sometime in the near future. The company anticipates deploying the G.722 codec in a firmware push to its over 16,000 customers, with the exact timing and business model to be determined. “[High quality voice] would just simply be a firmware [...] Or why you should care about wideband. Really. Voice communications is entering into its third wave of evolution. A third wave move to HD Communications represents an opportunity for carriers to redefine themselves and reassert their superiority relative to the “me too” VoIP service providers that have driven cost down, but at the price [...] TechCrunch says ooma has raised another $14 million, for a total of $56 million in VC money raised over the course of the company’s history. Leading the round was Worldwide Technology Partners. and the deal reportedly wipes out (probably dilutes out) the other investors. TCrunch says that ooma was “really on the roaps and [...] Going over my notes from the HD Communications Summit last month, it is instructive to look at the European carrier most bullish on HD voice — France Telecom (FT). The comapny currently has the largest documented HD deployment in the world having sold over 400,000 HD handsets to a VoIP customer base of around [...] Security vendor Sipera Systems says it is seeing evidence of G.722 uptake among its enterprise customers. While VP of Marketing Adam Boone didn’t have specific numbers, Sipera’s sales force has lot of “anecdotal” evidence of customers and channels asking about G.722 support. G.722 provides an advantage over other codecs as it provides higher voice [...] What can the Obama Administration do for HD Communications? A look back at what Vice President Al Gore did before he won his Nobel Prize provides some clues. Back in 1994, Al was the point many for “Reinventing Government” As a part of his mission, he put a “date certain” marker down for all [...] Optimum Lightpath’s HD voice offering is as much about being just another hosted application as it is about better quality voice calls, said company officials. “One of the great promises of hosted voice is as the feature server is upgraded, [customers] don’t have to pay for an upgrade, said John Macario, Optimum Senior Vice [...] |
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