I'm at HD Comm 09 in New York

Took the early plane from Boston and thus arrived at the HD Communications Summit conference venue at 7:25am, before the registration booth is even open.  Luckily the coffee is out.

The focus is wideband telephony, a.k.a. HD Voice or HD VoIP.  It's a topic I've been promoting at least since the 1997.  Some earlier comments are here, here and here.  If you clicked the 3rd "here" you'll have seen how optimistic I've been at stages in the past.

Today HD Voice is finally getting traction, at least in the IP-PBX space, with actual telephone devices from at least a half dozen companies.

I'll be moderating a panel "HD Broadband Telco" at 2pm with

• Rich Buchanan, CMO, Ooma
• William Bumbernick, CEO, Alteva
• John Hendry, CTO, M5 Networks

More later...