Voice

Communications infrastructure vendor Genband is launching NUViA, a suite of white-label hosted applications for cable and telco operators that includes videoconferencing, WebEx-like collaboration, HD voice and multimedia messaging.

Genband says its cable customers include Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision Systems, Liberty Global and Virgin Media. The company did not identify which service providers have been testing out NUViA.

Time Warner Cable -- adding a feature aimed at helping to persuade subscribers to keep paying for landline phone service -- introduced a voicemail-to-text feature that transcribes messages and sends the text to a mobile phone or email address.

Comcast introduced a similar feature to its Xfinity Voice customers earlier this year.

Orlando -- CommScope is putting its CCAP cards on the table, with an entry that the vendor says not only beats in the industry’s Converged Cable Access Platform architecture targets for QAM channel density but also will be available in configurations for midsize as well as large headends.

Listen closely in your average cable-system network operations center. The hum is not just that of packets carrying Web pages or video streams. It's now the chatter of Internet protocol voice traffic.

Adding voice traffic is inevitable when you're trying to turn a data network into a single delivery system for all kinds of content and services — and, in the future, might add streams delivering TV channels as well.

Converged services could generate $1 trillion per year in sales by 2010, with voice-over-Internet protocol emerging as the most significant product development, according to a recent research study issued by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.