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Astribank is the easy and professional way to connect Asterisk severs to the world of traditional telephony. It is a smart channel bank for an Asterisk PBX that provides 32 FXO/FXS ports, 4 input ports and 2 output ports (I/O ports are used for operating external devices via the telephone and vice versa).
Astribank-32 connects to the Asterisk server via a normal USB-2 device and does not require shutting down the machine and opening panels. Astribank-32 has an architecture that was designed for maximum ease in integration. When used with the Xorcom Rapid distribution or Xorcom TS-1 it is practially “Plug & Play”, unlike any other solution on the market.
Xorcom's driver for Astribank is now officially part of Zaptel. Digium announced the release of Zaptel 1.2.4 for Asterisk in mid-February. Among the changes and improvements, they listed the new driver for Astribank-8 (the first member of the Astribank family) and future models of Astribank.
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Written by Dal on August 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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Note: Being a strong Polycom supporter (Certifed Reseller) I think this is big new. I am just sitting here drooling on myself while reading this. The more and more I think about the possiblities if they pull this off right. I hope with all this video talk along with Asterisk, Polycom will also integrate there video presense solutions to work with Asterisk in some way. Anyway, I like what I am reading and look to see how it is executed.
Polycom, Inc., the world's leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, and Digium Inc., the Asterisk company, today announced a multiyear agreement to develop and market integrated, SIP-based telephony solutions for small and medium-sized businesses which will give SMB customers a tightly integrated, standards-based solution with simplified provisioning, broad support for Asterisk telephony features on the Polycom phones and the delivery of new capabilities such as Polycom's breakthrough HD Voice quality.
"We look forward to expanding our offering and furthering our reach in the marketplace through this partnership with Polycom," said Mark Spencer, President and CEO at Digium. "The interoperability between Asterisk Business Edition and Polycom SIP phones ensures flexibility and broad support for Asterisk telephony features."
Polycom's award-winning SIP desktop and conference phones will be combined with Digium's Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk, the industry's first open source PBX. Through the combined Digium and Polycom offering, SMB customers will have access to advanced telephony solutions which will be more affordable compared to proprietary systems. Additionally, the new offering will give customers the control, rapid feature development and deployment, and rich feature base that the Asterisk open source community and its partners provide. Per the agreement, Polycom will also be the preferred VoIP phone provider for Digium solutions.
"Open source PBX's are gaining significant momentum in the market place because they are easy to deploy and they offer partners and customers the ability to use it as a development platform for customized solutions," said Will Stofega, research manager, VoIP Services at IDC. "The combination of Polycom's broad family of high quality desktop and conference phones and Digium's low-cost, feature-rich platform will deliver a strong integrated VoIP telephony solution to the SMB market."
"The open source approach is an important part of the current IP PBX market and we want to support this community with the renowned voice quality and intuitive user interface of Polycom's phones," said Sunil Bhalla, senior vice president and general manager of voice communications at Polycom. "Through our co-development agreement, Polycom SIP phones will be easy to deploy and manage in a Digium Asterisk Business Edition environment and support the business telephony features to meet the needs of the SMB market."
As part of the agreement, Digium will modify the Asterisk graphic user interface (GUI), Asterisk Business Edition application and Asterisk OS to tightly integrate with Polycom's line of SIP-based desktop and conference phones. The co-development work will enable simplified provisioning and support for advanced telephony features like shared line appearance, XML microbrowser plugins and Polycom HD Voice. Polycom and Digium will also work together on joint marketing initiatives and joint selling through common channels. Polycom phones will also be the exclusive VoIP phone in Digium's Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit (AADK).
Digium Asterisk Business Edition
Asterisk Business Edition is the professional-grade version of Asterisk, the industry's first open source PBX. The Asterisk Business Edition provides tested reliability of critical functions and features, and is tailored for small and enterprise business applications. It supports up to 40 simultaneous calls with upgrades to 240 calls available. Asterisk Business Edition includes a supported rPath Linux distribution with an enhanced installer, an Asterisk technical manual and a quick-start guide, making Asterisk even easier to install, configure, and use.
Polycom's SIP-Based Phones
Polycom offers a complete line of SIP-based desktop phones, including the SoundPoint IP 650 with HD Voice, SoundPoint IP 601, SoundPoint IP 501, SoundPoint IP 430, SoundPoint IP 301, and SoundPoint IP Extension Modules. The line also includes the SoundStation IP 4000 which is a SIP-based conference phone within the award-winning, triangular-shaped SoundStation line, which have become an icon for voice conferencing quality in businesses around the globe.
Polycom's latest development, Polycom HD Voice, incorporates leading technologies that Polycom has developed through more than 15 years in voice communications, including wideband audio, enhanced signal processing, Acoustic Clarity Technology 2 (including next generation technologies for transparent full duplex, echo cancellation, dynamic noise reduction, automatic gain control and microphone management) and specialized system design to deliver unrivaled clarity and richness. This enables better clarity and improved intelligibility of information, which significantly improves comprehension and productivity and reduces listener fatigue. Polycom is working with Digium to make HD Voice available to Asterisk Business Edition customers.
Source: Polycom and Digium
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Ranch Networks, provider of networking appliances designed to facilitate carrier and enterprise grade VoIP deployments, today announced that Intermedia Marketing Solutions will be implementing the Ranch Networks RN series of appliances across its five call centers. The Ranch Networks RN series of appliances provide Intermedi@ Marketing Solutions with Ranch Networks unique features such as VoIP Matrix Technology™, 1+1 High Availability, and Media Bridging.
It is our responsibility to ensure exceptionally high standards of call quality and reliability to our call centers,” said Vance Dailey, vice president of information technology for Intermedi@ Marketing Solutions. “Ranch Networks was key in achieving those goals. I have been very impressed with Ranch Networks products, the professionalism and knowledge of their employees, and most of all their flexibility in working with us to provide the optimal VoIP solution.”
Specifically, Intermedi@ will be using the Ranch Networks RN 40 appliances throughout their call center platform. Intermedi@ Marketing Solutions is currently implementing a thousand seat unified VoIP PBX and predictive dialer based on the Asterisk and VICIDIAL open source projects across its five call centers. The RN 40 series of appliances feature the new VoIP Matrix Technology clustering technique developed to increase scalability, reliability and security across Asterisk server farms.
“Intermedi@ Marketing Solutions chose Ranch Networks because our technology supports large numbers of simultaneous calls without compromising reliability and quality of service,” said Dave Gombos, vice president of sales and marketing for Ranch Networks. “We provide reliable, redundant and uninterrupted VoIP service across the five call centers, while significantly reducing the load on their Asterisk servers.”
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Sangoma Technologies Corporation, a provider of connectivity hardware and software products for VoIP, TDM voice, WANs and Internet infrastructure, announced today that the A102d, a dual port E1/T1/PRI card with carrier-grade echo cancellation, is now shipping.
The A102d includes the same digital processing and PCI/PCI Express technology as the highly successful four-port A104d card and is intended to provide the benefits of hardware-based echo cancellation and voice enhancement for smaller, two-port T1/E1 installations. The A102d also supports DMF encoding/decoding and tone recognition, voice quality enhancement and adaptive noise reduction.
“The A102d was developed in response to the continuing demand for a small capacity, low-cost E1/T1 card with telco-grade echo cancellation,” says Sangoma Technologies president and CEO David Mandelstam. “As an integral part of Sangoma's AFT design family, the A102d inherits the compatibility, enhanced performance and reliability of its siblings.”
The A102d supports PBX, IVR and VoIP applications, such as Asterisk, Yate, FreeSwitch and many proprietary telephony projects.
Source: Sangoma
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Note: These are great liitle boxes for Asterisk setups where you need more
redundancy options.
Redfone Communications, LLC, is a VoIP technology company dedicated to providing ingenious network integration solutions to developers and installers in a growing industry. Redfone announces our next generation foneBRIDGE2 T1/E1 PRI-to-Ethernet Bridge device, scheduled for shipping December '06.
foneBRIDGE2 is a T1/E1 PRI-to-Ethernet bridge. It is an integrated black-box "appliance" designed to streamline installation and enable redundant design of Asterisk based VoIP systems. Designing, building, and installing an Asterisk system has never been this easy!
Engineered around our unique high-speed SoC (System-on-Chip) TDMoE engine, foneBRIDGE2 provides low-latency delivery of your critical voice traffic.
foneBRIDGE is currently available through our
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Source: Redfone Communications
Written by Dal on January 1st, 1970 with no comments.
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To examine our next product architecture, we take another trip across the Atlantic to visit Critical Links and their
edgeBOX product. Critical Links is a wholly owned subsidiary of Critical Software SA. Established in 1998, it has over 100 employees and headquarters in Portugal, plus subsidiary offices in the UK and USA.
The company has a reputation for producing mission- and business-critical networking and telecommunication solutions for the telecoms, public sector, industry, aerospace, and defense markets. Its customers include Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Infineon Technologies, NASA, the European Agency for Defense and Aerospace (EADS), and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Critical Links’ edgeBOX product is a fully integrated network device that includes an IP PBX, with comprehensive security features and integrated Quality of Service (QoS) functions that are designed to support small and medium-size business enterprises (SMBs). One of the interesting aspects of the edgeBOX is that in addition to its IP PBX functions, it typically replaces between four and seven single-function devices, such as a router, security appliance, network access server, file, web, and email servers, VoIP gateway and Wi-Fi access points, but with a fully remotely managed system, and a significantly lower total cost of ownership.
The product’s name, edgeBOX, is thus indicative of the comprehensive suite of functions it performs. Network integrators market edgeBOX to enterprises for deployment at their branch offices, while telecom service providers (TSPs) and managed services providers (MSPs) offer it as a service to their SMB customers. The edgeBOX runs on a Linux-based system, and is therefore compatible with standard servers that are available from a number of hardware vendors, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. Depending upon the hardware platform deployed, the edgeBOX system can support up to 500 end users.
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Note: Danny Sullivan sent this release from PIKA. Thanks Danny.
PIKA Technologies Inc., announced today the release of a new version of its PIKA Connect for Asterisk software package. Among the improvements and new features it contains, this release allows Asterisk users to take advantage of the DSP-quality software-based echo cancellation offered by PIKA's PrimeNet T1/E1 Gateway board and PIKA Connect for Asterisk software.
The
PrimeNet T1/E1 Gateway board was first released to the market in the spring of 2006. Providing support for up to four T1/E1 spans, this 5.3-inch PCI card was specially designed and optimized to work with PIKA's patent-pending AllOnHost media processing software technology. The number of spans the board supports is field upgradeable; if a single span board is initially purchased, it can be expanded to a dual, triple or quad with the simple purchase of a software license.
Installation is as simple as downloading and installing the PIKA channel driver for Asterisk with the AllOnHost media processing software and plugging in the board. A PCIe version of this card, offering the same features and benefits, will be available later this year. PIKA Connect for Asterisk is a channel driver distributed under the GNU Public License.
PIKA's prior version provided Asterisk interoperability with its high-density, four- to 24-port analog boards and low density, one- to four-port analog boards, as well as with Skype. This new version adds interoperability with PIKA's new T1/E1 Digital Gateway board, thus offering a full line of network connectivity options to Asterisk developers and end users around the world. "The Asterisk development community continues to benefit from advanced features like reliable fax and DSP-quality echo cancellation in both analog and digital applications, made possible by PIKA's advanced media processing technology," said Terry Atwood, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Care at PIKA.
"Finally, the Asterisk community has a cost-effective answer when customers and users demand traditionally high levels of voice and fax quality and reliability." Asterisk users can now shop online for PIKA hardware PIKA also opened its new e-commerce web store today.
Available through the company's main site at
www.pikatechnologies.com, the store gives Asterisk developers and end users a fast, easy method to procure the hardware they require. PIKA's analog and digital boards for Asterisk are available through the store. PIKA Connect for Skype, an Asterisk plug-in that allows incoming Skype calls to be handled by an Asterisk system in the same manner as calls received from the traditional telephone network, is also available.
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