Neutral Tandem is launching HD Voice Interconnect for the carrier market. The service, which already has been successfully interconnected with 8x8 Inc., is designed to provide easy access to HD carriers interconnected with Neutral Tandem, and to add incremental value to carrier investments in IP networks and VoIP services.
Neutral Tandem says the service allows carriers and service providers the opportunity to efficiently route HD Voice calls between competitive carriers and hosted Voice Application Providers. The service requires a SIP interconnect that routes HD Voice across Neutral Tandem’s network that is capable of terminating calls to more than 550 million telephony endpoints, and offers completion for any call regardless of whether the terminating party can terminate wideband voice.
“[Neutral Tandem] simplif[ied] the delivery of high-quality voice solutions end-to-end, and with their ‘off-net’ routing capabilities, there’s no need to create multiple HD peering relationships or routing configurations with numerous carriers, they do it all," said Bryan Martin, chairman and CEO of 8x8.
Neutral Tandem’s HD Voice service is readily accessible to any carrier with HD Voice traffic. It provides a bridge to connect between carriers and across markets. The solution does not require an ENUM registry, where numbers have to be uploaded by each carrier and ‘dipped’ at call setup. Due to the private nature of the service, customers simply route calls to Neutral Tandem and if the terminating carrier supports HD Voice, it is completed as such; otherwise, the call is completed on Neutral Tandem’s extensive global voice network.
Neutral Tandem’s HD Voice solution is designed to provide the carrier market a broad High Definition footprint to terminate quality voice traffic to mobile and wireline carriers. The service offers improved quality and low-latency voice termination across its entire private SIP-based network.
