LOUISVILLE, CO – After a successful interoperability testing event that focused on wideband high-definition voice, CableLabs has signed a collaboration agreement with the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) Forum.
HD voice technology doubles the transmitted bandwidth of one’s voice by capturing twice the speech information of a standard phone call. At the interop event, held December 6-10 at CableLabs, 11 industry suppliers made a number of wideband high definition voice calls using different components. Features such as registration, paging, Caller ID display, Call Waiting notifications, barge-in, CODEC negotiation and multi-line applications in numerous vendor combinations were also tested successfully.
CableLabs said Monday that it has adopted the DECT Cordless Advanced Technology – internet and quality (CAT-iq) specifications as part of its PacketCable HD Voice initiative.
“This collaboration agreement enables cable operators, CableLabs and the DECT Forum to work together to ensure that all HD Voice capable DECT handsets certified worldwide will operate with cable gateways,” said Jean-François Mulé, CableLabs’ VP of IP technologies and services, in the announcement.
