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presents Aculab’s proven Prosody
media processing resources and protocol support to developers of
telco grade solutions. cPCI has the look and feel of traditional central
office telephone exchange equipment familiar to telco installation and
maintenance staff. It also brings the benefits of industry standard hardware
and software interoperability, including chassis and operating system
independence.
Using the H.110 CT card interconnection specification, the Prosody
cPCI card presents integrators with the highest density and widest range
of media processing functions. A single Prosody card occupying a single
slot can deliver up to 256 channels of media processing resources and up
to 124 E1/T1 bearer channels – in a hot swap environment. The optional
digital network access support enjoys the full benefit of Aculab’s
protocols and approvals making solutions easy to work into international markets.
The learning curve for developers looking to integrate Prosody cPCI technology
is greatly reduced. Rather than dealing with new APIs, attention can
now be directed on how to best use the widest range of media processing
resources currently available. These include: Group
3 fax, record and playback (with multiple data compression rates),
matrix conferencing, echo
cancellation, DTMF tone detection, isolated word speech recognition
and data transmission protocols. These functions are all accessible
via a single, generic API, allowing the development of more versatile
and cost effective solutions. Because Prosody can perform all of these
functions on a single card, stock holding is greatly reduced.
Aculab’s host based speech technologies ASR, TTS and SVI,
using Aculab’s generic API, are available under a cost free licence
from software downloads for use with Prosody cPCI cards. In addition, specialist
speech partner software is supported and Aculab's offering includes an
Audio Provider for Nuance
core speech engine and the Nuance Voice Platform.
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Continuing to set industry firsts in media processing, Aculab’s flexible
DSP architecture, TiNG,
provides developers with the ability to select the functions they require for
an application. This removes the principle of one DSP (or even one card) performing
only a single function and allows feature mixes to be controlled by the developer.
Recognising that a diverse number of applications can be created
using Prosody, a TiNG
utility tool is available that allows developers to profile
the features required in their total application – allowing
them to select unique resource combinations. This provides an optimised,
concentrated and ‘fine tuned’ solution. Such a flexible
approach allows for a more cost-effective use of resources and
maximises competitive edge.
Aculab’s Prosody cPCI card offers all of the essential features
necessary for telco grade products, including high availability,
reliability and scalability in a high performance, standards compliant
media processing resource card. This open standards based cPCI
card has been designed to meet in full the relevant PICMG and H.110
specifications for hot swap and high capacity CT connectivity,
as well as achieving the robust standard of NEBS Level 3. A passive
transition module is provided to ensure a true implementation of
hot swap is possible with rear panel access. This means that live
insertion and extraction, crucial to the availability of any telecom
system, are possible. Cards can therefore be replaced without service
interruption as the need arises.
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