High Definition VoIP (HD VoIP) - Market Requirements

In the past 10 years, Voice over IP has emerged as an alternative to the traditional Telephony (PSTN) allowing a reduction in costs and increased capacity on long-distance telephone calls. While providing for lower costs and greater flexibility on converged voice and data networks, VoIP in general failed to deliver ‘better-than-PSTN’ quality, mainly due to the 3.4 Khz bandwidth limitation of legacy narrowband speech codecs. Capitalizing on expanding IP broadband networks, wideband speech codecs which encode 7.1 Khz of the voice spectrum can now be effectively deployed in VoIP. This enables the doubling of bandwidth for voice communications, allowing the elevation of daily voice communication to be similar to that of FM radio and/or conference room quality.

 

High Definition VoIP (HD VoIP) - AudioCodes Solution

AudioCodes HD VoIP delivers innovative, reliable technology providing customers and partners with a comprehensive selection of cost-effective and flexible network devices, end-user appliances and voice processing technologies.

AudioCodes’ portfolio of products can be seamlessly integrated with many Application Server Providers, offering a complete solution for a variety of High Definition applications in many key segments, i.e. Banks and Trading Rooms, Travel Agencies, Government, Health and Telemedicine, Air Traffic Control, Public Safety, Education and the Army. All require top quality voice technology such as media adaptation, encoding, decoding and the mixing of wideband voice.

AudioCodes’ Current and Planned HD Enabled products consist of the IPmedia 3000 Media Server, Mediant 3000 Media Gateway, Mediant 1000 MSBG and the Mediant family of Microsoft certified basic Hybrid Gateways. AudioCodes’ Media Servers and Gateways now enable true HD transcoding between different wideband coders (i.e. G.722, AMR-WB and Microsoft RTA) while retaining a wideband quality. This will allow interworking and connectivity between different wideband networks such as the mobile and broadband networks.