Aculab, a leading provider of enabling technology for the communications market

Aculab offers a wide range of hardware and software products for high density IP media processing. With our IP voice boards and host media processing (HMP) IP software options you will be able to create powerful multimodal solutions for deployment across Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

IP telephony boards and HMP are principle offerings from our enabling technology product family - the award winning Prosody brand. This reliable, deployment proven portfolio presents a truly comprehensive, feature rich set of IP-based media (voice, vocoder, video, fax and data/modem over IP) processing functions. Together with standards-based H.323 signalling and RFC compliant SIP session control protocols, Aculab's IP enabled components, designed from the beginning around an IP core, can be used by application developers, systems integrators and equipment manufacturers alike to create high-performance, fourth generation IP media servers and IP-based subsystems.

IP boards and software

Prosody X IP media processing boards provide essential functionality that can be used to build a wide range of next generation telco and enterprise applications, and IP-enabled service delivery platforms.

Prosody S, Aculab's advanced HMP offers a viable alternative to using DSP-based media processing resource cards, bringing granular scalability and cost-efficiencies to those familiar with traditional, board-based designs.

With Aculab's highly integrated, advanced SIP stack users can take advantage of a wide range of SIP capabilities, including independent media and signalling control.

Who needs Aculab IP boards and software?

Aculab's IP media processing boards and host media processing (HMP) software are ideal for a wide variety of companies producing all manner of communications products and solutions for fourth generation IP networks.

Offering IP-enabled products ranging from inbound/outbound applications using sophisticated call progress analysis to speech enabled IVR/self-service solutions, premium rate, prepaid and messaging platforms via conferencing, fax and broadcast, hosted services, unified messaging, IP media servers and gateways, etc., our customers and partners target many horizontal and vertical market segments - see solutions for a taste of what can be achieved.

Some of those who benefit from Aculab's enabling technologies include, et alia:

• Application developers and systems integrators; business solutions and service providers; network operators or telcos, carriers and service providers; and platform developers, telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs) or network equipment providers (NEPs)

Deployment choice

IP media processing boards and host-based media processing variants of the Prosody family, although very different types of IP-based enabling technology, share some essential qualities - APIs, media processing features, distributed architecture and call/session control functionality, for example. For these reasons, an application suitably developed using Aculab's consistent, high level API set can be easily ported to any of the products in the portfolio. Applications can be developed and deployed on HMP or an IP DSP board-based platform, or ported from HMP to use IP telephony boards. It's really a deployment choice - from proven and versatile alternatives that provide a perfect fit for both current and future applications.

Product benefits

• Highest density IP media processing boards at lowest per channel cost - significantly improves margins
• The low entry cost of a host media processing software only product can open up new markets and increase margins in a competitive environment
• Prosody X multimedia DSP resource boards are available in a range of variants and industry standard form factors enabling the most appropriate platform for each user environment - independent of the application
• Prosody S HMP software can be deployed on any platform or form factor - users can choose the server that best suits their application, deployment environment, target market and price points
• IP boards and HMP software are distributable amongst different chassis - enabling scalable, redundant and resilient solutions
• The granular channel count and high density capability of HMP means applications can be expanded or scaled to suit any end-user channel count requirement
• IP boards and HMP software support the separation of application and media servers - tomorrow's architecture today
• IP telephony boards and HMP software share a consistent API - ensuring ease of use with faster time to market and offering a flexible deployment choice

If you wish to discuss any IP product requirements, please talk to your Account Manager or email sales@aculab.com

Scalability

Scalability is essential for every communications service or application, to support future growth of usage capacity with minimal added costs. Aculab's IP boards and HMP software feature linear scalability, allowing seamless growth from one to thousands of channels in a solution. A unique capability of these products allows the creation of solutions with distributed physical architecture, enabling platforms to scale cost-effectively beyond a single node.

Active redundancy

Aculab's IP media processing products enable the creation of highly resilient solutions using redundant functional components and eliminating single points of failure. Additionally, with the distributed architecture, load balancing software can be implemented to minimise the impact of a failover event. Furthermore, automatic failover mechanisms are also supported by the range of platforms, making a solution fault tolerant, from the low level media processing layer - IP-based hardware or HMP software - up to the application part.

Choices, options, preferences

To achieve maximum cost-efficiency for every system, the product family offers a choice of hardware and software variants with different media processing capacity. Aculabs VoIP boards offer additional choices in terms of industry standard form factors and IP network interfaces. With a range of technical support and professional services options, plus competitive pricing, outstanding value for money is guaranteed. Support for a variety of operating systems is also available, including Linux, SPARC Solaris, Windows XP, Server 2003, Windows 7 and Server 2008.

Media processing products

If you wish to discuss any IP product requirements, please talk to your Account Manager or email sales@aculab.com