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 and PSTN networks. These DSP boards are part of the Prosody product family offering a broad set of media processing functions and call or session control protocols for both TDM and IP. Aculab's family of rich media processing boards today offers a truly comprehensive set of converged, 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 and TDM-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 fax broadcast, prepaid 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 DSP 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 DSP boards. Aculab's protocol coverage also extends to the broadest range of worldwide call control and TDM signalling protocols with appropriate regulatory approvals. The list includes many different national and international variants of SS7, CAS and ISDN (including Q.SIG and DPNSS), for operation over E1 and T1 trunks.

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

Inclusive functionality

Together with our DSP boards, Aculab's IP protocols are an excellent option for many TDM-to-IP gateway functions. Essentially, if you specify a TDM option, gateway and encoding/transcoding functionality comes for free. This is also true for our protocols and media processing software, for they are available under a cost free licence to use with Prosody X boards.You can download Aculab's media processing software and protocol firmwares 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.

Target applications

Aculab's Prosody X DSP boards were designed around an IP core, whilst retaining legacy TDM options; recognising they remain a necessity, despite the migration to fourth generation IP networks (NGN). 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:

• Media and signalling gateways
• IP media servers
• Transcoding units
• Contact and call centres
• IVR servers and voice portals
• Conference servers
• Fax bureaux

• Session border controllers
• Unified messaging platforms
• Voicemail
• Prepaid platforms
• Quality monitoring and test equipment

Product benefits

For more details on Aculab's range of DSP boards and essential media processing functions, see our product bulletin. 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, H.323 and SS7, 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 DSP 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 DSP board variants with different media processing capacities, Ethernet bandwidths, optional E1/T1 trunks 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 evolved from legacy voice boards, the range of DSP boards from Aculab now offers a complete portfolio of call and session control signalling and media processing functions. Protocol stacks include: SIP; H.323; MRCP; ISDN; CAS; SS7; and SIGTRAN. Media processing feature highlights include: call progress analysis, high density TDM/IP gateway; voice recording/playback; DTMF handling; echo cancellation; N-way matrix conferencing; transcoding with a large choice of narrowband and wideband voice codecs; Group 3 and T.38 fax up to V.34 speeds; and many other advanced functions.

For more details on the range of DSP boards available from Aculab, see the product bulletin.

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