[post on mjgraves] I see that they are available in some versions of Counterpath’s X-Lite and Eyebeam soft phones. Support for these codecs in hardware is something that I’m yet to determine.

Digium’s Kevin Fleming noted that Broadcom has already offered the codecs to the IETF codec working group. The IETF has a meeting in Japan this week. Kevin was searching for Kobe beef, but not finding any. Who would’ve guess?

The really interesting thing about BV16 and BV32 is that Broadcom has put a lot of work into getting these two codecs included in the Cable TV industries standards for PacketCable 1.5 and PacketCable 2.0. That means that they have something of an inside track with respect to voice rollouts by CableCo’s as the codecs are already part of the specs that define the functionality of the set-top boxes. Remember that Comcast recently became the #3 telco in the US. Cable has made a huge move into voice in recent years.

BV32 is notable for being a wideband codec, supporting 16 KHz sampling and a data rate of 32 kbps. That results in the same usable frequency response as G.722 but at half the bandwidth on-net, not unlike Polycom’s Siren7.