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Features and benefits

Up to 300 rich media processing channels per card
Attractively priced - industry's lowest cost per channel

Based on the new PCI Express bus

‘Future-ready' architecture for video, IMS and mobility solutions

Choice of ‘mix and match' variants reduces CAPEX

Broad functionality set of embedded algorithms under a cost free licence

Enables short development cycles

Target applications
Media and signalling gateways
Media servers with transcoding capabilities
Contact and call centres
IVR servers and voice portals
Conference servers
Fax bureaux
IMS compliant MRF and MGCF/MGW functions
Unified messaging
Quality monitoring and test equipment

Prosody X PCIe is a highly configurable IP media platform that combines support for rich media processing resources, VoIP telephony and optional E1/T1 digital network access functions. The PCI Express variant complements the award winning Prosody X product line, offering a medium density product with the industry's new PCI Express computer bus. Bringing unrivalled industry benchmarks in scalability and low cost per channel, Prosody X PCIe is an ideal building block for converged VoIP and TDM applications. Prosody X PCIe offers a choice of ‘mix and match' modules to provide the best cost efficiency and ROI for a wide range of SME level, converged communications solutions.

Best fit for SME solutions
Prosody X PCIe meets the particular cost, functionality and form factor demands of solutions developers targeting the SME communications market. This attractively priced, medium density card, with the new PCI Express bus, has the best fit for on-premises equipment in a variety of solutions, including enterprise voice gateways, IP-PBX, fax servers, IVR platforms, instant messaging and many others.

Keeping the high service continuity of an enterprise as the paramount objective, Prosody X PCIe utilises the inherent strengths of the distributed IP architecture to provide effective link, card and application protection mechanisms. It supports sophisticated redundancy management to allow the creation of applications with high availability, independent of the final solution scale or channel count. Prosody X PCIe allows flexible allocation of media processing resources, which can be shared between several high level control applications, where one of them could be on the local host and others on remote machines, connected to the enterprise LAN. In case of failure of the main high level application, the card control can be switched to a remote standby alternative, therefore, providing service continuity by implementation of either N+1 or 1+1 protection schemes. To facilitate the remote management of the end user equipment, Prosody X PCIe supports the SNMP protocol, which offers a standards-based capability for remote control and in-field service. Both Net-SNMP and Microsoft's SNMP are offered to provide choice and the host-based solution allows one agent to report on multiple cards.

Unrivalled feature set
The Prosody X PCIe media processing platform enables delivery of feature-rich solutions that address the demands of the IP communications era. The product offers a comprehensive selection of firmware algorithms that can run independently on one or two DSPs. With each DSP capable of supporting up to 150 channels, a total of 300 channels per card is achievable. Key media processing resources include record and playback with a range of voice compressions, DTMF tone generation and detection, matrix conferencing, echo cancellation, fax processing and data transmission protocols. Each algorithm can be used separately, or in combination to develop more sophisticated solutions, making Prosody X PCIe the clear choice for advanced speech processing development. Because Prosody X PCIe can perform all of these functions on a single card, stock holding and the maintenance cost of spares is greatly reduced.

In addition to the comprehensive set of media processing algorithms, the product offers a broad choice of signalling protocols used for call control in VoIP, PSTN, IMS and mobile networks. Aculab offers a complete implementation of SIP and H.323 under a cost free licence. In addition, developers are given an option of using 3rd party signalling stacks with Prosody X to facilitate multi-vendor solutions integration.

On-board TDM options
To complement the comprehensive VoIP support, Prosody X PCIe provides the option of E1/T1 trunk interfaces, to ensure traditional TDM connectivity using the worldwide protocol suite Aculab is renowned for. Protocols include ISDN, CAS and SS7 - Aculab's SS7 protocol stack coverage provides signalling messages for MTP, ISUP, SCCP and TCAP procedures and is constantly being upgraded. Each trunk's configuration may be made individually allowing for different protocols on different trunks, which may be E1 or T1, set with different terminating impedances. This flexibility is unmatched and includes reconfigurations without the need to restart a system, bringing great value to solution providers. A choice of 1, 2 or 4 E1/T1 trunks per card provides for up to 124 channels. The use of CAS/SS7 protocols is enabled by a separate pluggable daughter module, reducing the product cost where these protocols are not required.

Leading architecture
The unique architecture of Prosody X PCIe has been developed to offer rich media processing and call control capabilities for a full set of next generation solutions. Being the enabling technology for a wide range of applications, from IMS, through convergence of IP with mobile or cable networks, to mobile messaging and video, the product is capable of accommodating the comprehensive feature set required for creation of these sophisticated solutions.