Wayne, N.J. — Taking steps to remove licensing fees for codecs in PacketCable network designs, Cable Television Laboratories Inc. said last week that it has selected low-bit-rate compression codecs ...

The age of voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) is here, bringing together telephony and data communications to provide packetized voice and fax data streamed over low-cost Internet links. The ...

German audio codec manufacturer Mayah Communications has introduced a new product family of C11 audio codecs — including the SPORTY Reporter Codec and FLASHMAN II Recorder/IP Codec. The C11 family ...

It’s late Tuesday afternoon, and you get a call from one of your show’s producers. There’s an expert guest on the other coast, and he’s planned a long-form interview with her tonight. The studio she’s ...

PERTH, AUSTRALIA — codec manufacturer Tieline has confirmed that the new Gateway Multichannel IP audio codec is now available to purchase and is now shipping. The Tieline Gateway is a DSP-based 1RU IP ...

Embarking as the latest member of the dual-channel subscriber line interface circuit (DuSLIC) family for voice and VoIP-enabled devices, the DuSLIC-xT is an energy-efficient CODEC/SLIC that reduces ...

Nuvoton has announced its latest release of the four-channel CODEC/SLIC named W684386 used for short-loop VoIP applications. Nuvoton Technology Corp., a subsidiary of Winbond Electronics Corp, which ...

Tieline ViA Duo. Tieline will debut its ViA Duo codec at the NAB Show. “ViA Duo is an ultra-portable broadcast platform that unifies IP workflows by delivering an all-in-one sol ...

In my August column, “The Audio World Without ISDN,” we looked at the impending demise of ISDN and the options available for those who can no longer get service. With telcos pushing everything into ...

Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-rate tables, and roadmap slides that ...

Following up on the VoIP quality issues that we discussed in last week’s newsletter, this week we’d like to take a deeper dive into some of the possible problems that can make VoIP call quality ...

This article is also available as a download that includes an Excel template you can use to run your own calculations. VoIP bandwidth consumption over a WAN (wide area network) is one of the most ...