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

Aculab offers a wide range of media processing boards to developers and integrators creating communications platforms and solutions for IP networks. These IP boards are part of the Prosody product family offering a broad set of media processing functions and call or session control protocols for IP applications. Aculab's family of rich media processing boards today offers a truly comprehensive set of voice, fax and data media processing functions. Media processing boards provide essential functionality for a wide range of telco and enterprise applications.

'Best in class' with outstanding value

Aculab's Prosody X series of media processing boards has been specifically designed to enhance an extensive variety of IP-based communications solutions. These range from inbound and outbound contact centre applications and interactive voice response (IVR) systems to hosted service delivery platforms, such as T.38 fax and wideband conferencing, targeted at both enterprise and service provider markets. Whether you are an application developer or solutions provider, an equipment manufacturer or platform developer, a systems integrator or business communications service provider, you will gain significant deployment/OPEX benefits from investing in Aculab's industry leading, media processing enabling technology.

Product details

For more details on Aculab's range of IP boards and essential media processing functions, see the product bulletin.

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

Protocol combinations

For IP telephony and VoIP applications, Aculab offers both SIP and H.323 stacks, which are fully integrated with our call control APIs and IP boards.

For more details on the unrivalled range of protocols available, including H.323, SIP and SS7 (SIGTRAN) compliance, see the protocols and approvals page.

You can download Aculab's media processing software and protocols at any time, via the software downloads page. You can also download all of our consistently designed call/session control and media processing APIs, to read at your convenience, from technical documents. All of our protocols and media processing software are available under a cost free licence to use with Prosody X IP boards.

Target applications

Aculab's Prosody X IP boards were designed around an IP core. This enables market aware developers, systems integrators and equipment manufacturers alike to readily create high-performance, convergence solutions using our media processing resource boards. For an indication of what businesses, just like yours, are able to achieve, take a look at our solutions pages.

The following are examples of the kind of applications or service delivery platforms that can be built:

Product benefits

For more details on Aculab's range of IP boards and essential media processing functions, see the data sheet. Additionally, if you wish to discuss your product requirements or a purchase, please talk to your Account Manager or email sales@aculab.com

To view the unrivalled range of protocols available from Aculab, including SIP and H.323, see protocols and approvals.

You can download Aculab's media processing software and protocols at any time, via the downloads utility that is available from software downloads.

You can also download all of our consistently designed call/session control and media processing APIs, to read at your convenience, from technical documents.

Clear and present advantage

Aculab's IP boards - part of its Prosody family of media processing platforms - offer reliable, deployment proven technology that provides feature rich, high density, converged media processing. Solutions providers and developers looking to integrate multimodal communications platforms, with voice, video* and data, will benefit from the 'future-ready' architecture of Aculab's media processing boards, which are already capable of handling multimedia call sessions.

Distributed architecture

Aculab's Prosody X media processing product line benefits from a distributed architecture and remote API, which means that boards can be installed in different chassis, controlled by local or remote application servers. This offers resilience and excellent scalability, giving the benefit of being able to provision hardware for hosted applications in an optimal, cost-effective way.

Additionally, with this distributed architecture, load balancing and automatic failover mechanisms can be implemented to make a solution fault tolerant; from the low level media processing layer up to the application part. Overall, a durable competitive advantage can be gained for a wide range of communications applications in enterprise or telco environments.

Fit for purpose

To ensure maximum deployment flexibility and 'fit for purpose' cost-effectiveness, a number of IP board variants with different media processing capacities, Ethernet bandwidths, and a choice of industry standard form factors is offered. With the software development kit (SDK) available under a cost free licence, unlimited free technical support and competitive pricing - outstanding value for money is guaranteed.

Features, functions, options

Having been designed around an IP core, the range of IP boards from Aculab now offers a complete portfolio of call and session control signalling and media processing functions. Relevant protocol stacks include: SIP; H.323; and MRCP. Media processing feature highlights include: high density IP encoding; voice recording/playback; DTMF handling; echo cancellation; N-way matrix conferencing; transcoding with a large choice of narrowband and wideband voice codecs; T.38 fax up to V.34 speeds; and many other advanced functions.

For more details on the range of IP boards available from Aculab, see the data sheet.

Additionally, if you wish to discuss your product requirements or a purchase, please talk to your Account Manager or email sales@aculab.com

Product variants