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Global Crossing (www.globalcrossing) has installed some heavy duty bandwidth at baseball stadiums around the country as a part of its deal with MLB.com. The company has installed 155 Mbps circuits to all 30 Major League Baseball ballparks around the country and a whopping 2.5 Gbps circuit in New York to enable the MLB.com site to [...] During the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) call last Friday, I put down my markers for the advance of HD Voice in North America, using the statements and actions of various service providers to provide context for my predictions. The benchmarks I used were– Cablevision’s rollout of hosted HD Voice service this summer – The leading/bleeding edge Adam Uzelac — aka voiploser on Twitter — is tweeting Global Crossing rolling out Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) R2. This makes two carriers that have embraced OCS for internal usage. At VoiceCon this spring, Sprint was talking about its love for OCS and how it would save them a ton of money since the company [...] 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 of quality. The [...] Global Crossing is currently implementing HD voice conferencing for a very few of its elite (i.e. the guys who spend lotta money) customers on a one-off, customized basis, but the company expects to offer a productized hosted HD audio product in the near future. “We have around two and a half types of customers who want [...] As I clean out my in-box of bits and pieces this week, Cox and Global Crossing are two different companies that have indicated they doing to do something with HD Communications and HD Voice. The bigger questions are “When?” and “How?” A Cox spokesperson said the company was looking into HD Voice, but at this point [...] |
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