CableLabs trials high definition voice

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...