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

Aculab offers a wide range of media processing hardware and software products. With our media processing board and host media processing (HMP) enabling technology options you will be able to create powerful multimodal solutions for deployment across legacy PSTN and fourth generation IP networks.

DSP boards and HMP together form a product family that is offered under the Prosody brand. This reliable, deployment proven portfolio presents a truly comprehensive, feature rich set of converged voice, video*, fax and data media processing functions and call or session control signalling protocols for multimedia call sessions in both TDM and IP.

DSP boards and software

Prosody X media processing boards provide essential functionality for a wide range of telco and enterprise applications and service delivery platforms.

Prosody S, Aculab's advanced HMP, gives solutions providers a viable alternative to using DSP boards, bringing granular scalability and cost-efficiencies to those familiar with traditional, board-based designs.

Aculab also offers VoiceXML and CCXML scripting language interpreters, an MRCP client, an Asterisk channel driver, and its DSP boards and HMP software* are an integral component of Whirlwind with its Telco Perl application engine.

Who needs Aculab boards and software?

Aculab's 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 and legacy PSTN networks.

Offering IP and converged TDM-based 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, 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)

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

Prosody options

DSP-based media processing and host-based media processing variants of the Prosody family, although very different types of 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.

Furthermore, as our DSP boards combine IP and TDM functionality, gateway and transcoding functionality is a given. There is a Prosody option to suit your application, making a perfect fit for both current and future applications.

Product benefits

• Highest density 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
• DSP 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
• 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
• DSP 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
• DSP boards and HMP software support the separation of application and media servers - tomorrow's architecture today
• DSP 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 media processing requirements, please talk to your Account Manager or email sales@aculab.com

Scalability

Scalability is essential for every telecom service application, to support future growth of usage capacity with minimal added costs. Aculab's DSP boards and HMP software, supporting IP and/or TDM media and signalling, 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 media processing product line enables 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 - DSP-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. DSP boards offer additional choices in terms of the number of E1/T1 trunks and industry standard form factors. With inclusive, unlimited technical support and competitive pricing, outstanding value for money is guaranteed.

Support for a variety of operating systems is also available, including Linux, SPARC Solaris, Windows XP/2000, Server 2003, Vista* and Server 2008*.

Media processing products

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