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GroomerII goes wild
Aculab's GroomerII is offered as a cost-effective, signalling and media gateway for any telco or service provider function where there is a need for IP and TDM voice network interconnectivity. With its impressive pedigree, GroomerII is a reliable, compliance tested gateway solution that can be used to add new voice services, extend existing infrastructure, and reduce costs in support of a migration strategy to an all IP architecture. It enables the delivery of today's revenue generating, IP-based services into SS7 or legacy CAS and PRI networks....Read more
CEO spotlight (Internet Telephony - May 2008)
At Aculab, our mission is made up of three components - products, people and profit. In respect of our products, we strive to be respected worldwide by customers and competitors alike as a leading provider of enabling technology for the communications market....Read more
HMP software - you've served your apprenticeship; you're hired
Since the first white papers and early builds of software grabbed by some eager innovators, we're now seeing a broader range of HMP products available in the market with better targeted features and stability as the classic software 'version 2s' hit the streets from leading vendors....Read more
Dancing with wolves: The COTS illusion
Enhanced Voice Processor (EVP) units are at the heart of many a military communications system. When sourcing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) enabling technology for these communications, there are always two key requirements that come to the fore: high density and low cost per channel...Read more
Compact PCI media processing board wears more than one hat
Aculab is a supplier of specialist, DSP-based media processing and signalling protocol support. The company developed its Prosody X cPCI, a high density IP media processing resource board, to meet large enterprise and telco grade communication requirements....Read more
VoIP - The growth hormone for voice applications
It has been said that the mature voice communications market is experiencing the greatest growth rate since the invention of the telephone, more than a century ago. But this growth, stimulated by VoIP technology, expands the voice application in a completely new domain, where the full convergence of voice, data and now video, including fixed line with mobile devices, creates a range of exciting applications that would have seemed futuristic even a few of years ago....Read more
An old protocol refuses to budge
The 7th protocol What do you think of when 'seven' is mentioned? What about the Seven Wonders of the World, the Seven Dwarves, or the Seven Deadly Sins? Seven is the fourth prime number and it is also a self number. And interestingly, the Pythagoreans called it the perfect number; three and seven, the triangle and the square, the perfect figures. Sounds a bit like the Da Vinci code!...Read more
Lawful interception
Due to universal concerns over ARPU, telecommunications fraud, denial of service attacks, customer satisfaction, and growing security fears - particularly over global terrorist activities - monitoring and surveillance solutions are on the increase....Read more
