Standard offers improved VoIP quality.(ITU)

Telecom Standards Newsletter, May, 2006

SG16 completed work on a new scalable voice codec--G729.1--that will significantly improve voice quality in VoIP calls by offering wideband quality. Wideband telephony gives more natural sounding voice and greatly improves intelligibility and listening comfort. G.729.1 extends the ITU-T G.729 speech coding standard widely used in VoIP systems and is fully interoperable with it.

It will allow smooth transition from narrow band (300-3400 Hz) "PSTN" quality telephony to high quality wideband (50-7000Hz) telephony over IP and efficient deployment in existing infrastructures. G.729.1 can operate at 12 bit rates from 32Kbps down to 8Kbps with wideband quality above 14kbps to dynamically provide the optimum voice quality according to service and network...

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