Belgium: Voxbone s iNum Service Supports High Definition with Skype s SILK.

Byline: datta03

Voxbone, a provider of international Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) origination services and telephone numbers, has announced that its iNum service now supports high-definition (HD) calling between dozens of VoIP networks and Skype.

iNum is a geographically-independent number service from Voxbone . iNum numbers enable billing as local calls when dialed through participating carriers anywhere in the world, say Voxbone officials.

By enabling emerging HD voice technology, Voxbone will transcode, or translate, between Skype's super-wideband SILK codec and the widely deployed HD codec, G.722, said Voxbone officials at eComm Europe 2009.

With iNum supplying the needed uniform identifier across all providers, our support for Skype's SILK codec kicks high-definition voice into higher gear, said Tim Behrsin, Voxbone's business development manager for iNum, in a release.

SIKL is Skype's wideband audio codec for all Skype-to-Skype calls. It aims to improve the audio out to 12,000 Khz and has several improvements, says a blog post at TMCnet.

Skype users who have the latest version of Skype for Windows or Mac can experience HD quality not only in conversations with one another but also when they call most of the world's other HD-capable endpoints.

Voxbone plans to further advance this benefit by supporting more codecs until HD becomes the sound quality standard for VoIP and eventually all telephony.

Prefaced with the ITU-assigned 883 code, iNum numbers refer to the Internet as the 44 country code refers to the U.K. Calls to iNum numbers are routed first to Voxbone, which delivers them to the appropriate service provider over IP, company officials said.

iNum numbers can be dialed from Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) phones as well as IP endpoints, so the new service enables conference calls with attendees on conventional phones, who will hear within the PSTN's audio constraints, and others with high-definition IP endpoints, who will enjoy the richer sound of HD calling.

Partnering with Voxbone logically follows our decision in March to make the SILK codec freely available, said Jonathan Christensen, Skype's general manager for audio and video, in the release. Voxbone's support for SILK is a great endorsement and will enable many providers to offer SILK sound quality without making infrastructure changes.

Voxbone recently made headlines when Nimbuzz selected the company to enable its users to make voice calls to their contacts on any instant messenger (IM) and VoIP service, includingGizmo5 and Skype, without the need of 3G or Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) connectivity, TMCnet reported.

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