Recently, we had the opportunity to speak with Jim Rhodes, president of Rhino Equipment.

Rhino Equipment Corp. is a USA based, global telecommunications equipment hardware supplier, whose mission is to provide customers with the most reliable, lowest-priced telecommunications equipment that can be trusted to work day in and day out. Each year the company strives to produce new and innovative solutions to technological problems.

Listen to the podcast or read the summary of our call, below:

[VoIPon] So Jim, what’s new at Rhino equipment this year? Are there any interesting products in development or anything recently released that VoIPon’s listeners should know about?

Well, we recently released the Rhino Ceros Desktop, which is a smaller sleeker version of our Ceros line, which started with the Ceros 3U and later migrated to the Rhino Ceros 1U. And the Ceros Desktop is a little bit smaller. Obviously, it’s named after where we’d expect to see it most of the time, which is on the desktop. However, it does come with a wall mount bracket, and it does support the unique Rhino custom consumer/customer configurable display, that allows up to six lines of custom text and a bitmap graphic to be added, to instantly create a product that is credible for a VAR or an OEM.

[VoIPon]  This sounds interesting, Jim. Can you tell me a little more about it, perhaps from the technical side?

Sure, the desktop supports a 2-slot, Atom-based motherboard. It’s normally a single slot motherboard, but Rhino has developed a custom 2-slot riser card, with modifications to make that two slot accessible. It uses an external power supply – a wall-pack type power supply, as well as a smaller sized hard drives, laptop or notebook sized hard drives. It also supports 2 drives in raid-1 configuration. It’s basically taking what we have in our 1U platform, slimming down the size, obviously, but also going to a single core Atom processor, which reduces the number of simultaneous calls down to about fifty calls. All in all, it’s basically the same platform that you get with the 1U and the 3U; it’s just fewer-call capable.

[VoIPon] We know that Rhino is well known for its high quality channel banks that often find homes in the hospitality industry. In what other industries have these channel banks been used and why should someone choose a Rhino channel bank versus those from competing companies, such as Adtran or Carrier Access?

Well the number one answer to that question is auto-T1. Auto T1 is a Rhino first and a Rhino only capability that allows Rhino channel banks to be taken of the box, connected up into the T1 environment, and after a power on, the Rhino channel bank configures itself to the T1 environment.  That works on all three models, our FXS, our FXO and our modular unit.

Another very unique feature is the LCD display, which basically makes the channel bank a test apparatus, that depicts real time operation of what is going on, on the T1. Most channel banks are basically a box with a couple of LEDs, where the Rhino channel bank allows you to see in plain simple English, in alpha numeric letters, what is happening on the T1.

Of course we support universal input voltage. It’s a 2U rack mount unit that comes with a rack mount kit, it’s found itself in places like Iraq with the troops, in weather stations, in both the north and south poles, it’s all over the world in government offices, and of course commercially, in many, many thousands of businesses across the world. It’s a global product.

[VoIPon] We’ve been asking our podcast participants their opinion on the state of the market. What can VoIPon’s listeners expect from VoIP and unified communications in the future? Where do you think the market in general is headed?

Well, it’s hard to obviously predict where the market is going to go. I think the traditional hardware platform that’s been what we call big iron PBXs are a thing of the past. Of course you’re seeing the big players starting to play in the small appliance VoIP marketplace, which is basically bringing, we support the Asterisk community, for example, is bringing Asterisk to the prime time.

I also think what is really needed in the market place is a high reliability industrial and enterprise level type of system, to really make that marketplace rise to the level that people expect or corporations expect. I think that we’ll be seeing a movement toward that in the future.

VoIP network operators and large enterprises with IP call centres that support hundreds of agents can benefit from this high capacity G.729 transcoding solution, which has more than three times the transcoding power of any other PCI Express based product currently available. G.729 is a high-quality, low bit rate codec that saves bandwidth.

Because it is not DSP based, customers can configure their Screamer cards according to their business requirements and upgrade their transcoding capacity whenever they like. By adding multiple cards to a server, companies can build thousands of channels of transcoding into their networks at a fraction of the cost of deploying expensive media gateways.

“The ability to optimise transcoding between G.729 and G.711 codecs means IP telecoms operators can rationalise their infrastructure, as well as create more opportunities for revenue by routing VoIP traffic directly to and from bandwidth-constrained locations,” said Mike Vieyra, CEO of Howler.

The Howler Screamer product line is compatible with many popular softswitches, such as Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, trixbox and elastix. Howler Screamer 64-bit is available to buy today from the VoIPon webstore.

The SmartNode Session Border Controller provides any-to-any protocol mediation for secure connectivity between IP-PBX systems and ITSPs and resolves security and interoperability challenges businesses face when implementing SIP trunking.

The SmartNode™ ESBR lowers overall equipment costs by including an advanced IP router, QoS, VoIP-VPN security, least-cost call routing and IP-link redundancy with no added licensing or support fees.

“SIP Trunking has entered the mainstream,” said John Wu, VoIP product manager, “contributing major interop issues and serious security holes. SmartNode™ addresses both challenges, building on a history of success with Patton’s interop certification program and secure VoIP VPN technology. What sets the ESBR apart is the absence of hidden costs.”

Patton’s SmartNode™ 5200 Enterprise Session Border Router (ESBR) is now available for ordering.

SmartNode™ recently claimed the 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY® Excellence Award—the seventh major award in five years for the product line.

Retail stores, restaurants, campuses, casinos, apartment buildings and business offices looking for a cost-effective, open standard surveillance solution can easily implement these two new indoor cameras for 24×7 security protection of people and assets.

With SIP/VoIP support, business owners can also stream all monitoring activity to a mobile or video phone from anywhere in the world, using the GXV3611’s 2-way audio and video streaming capability.

Unobtrusive, Attractive Dome Cameras for High Definition or Low Light Conditions features include:

• Integrated microphone, speaker and smoke detector for maximum and out-of-the-box
• video + audio + smoke monitoring using industry standard SIP & VoIP technology
• Motion Detection and Alert Notification
• Integrated Power–over-Ethernet (802.3af)
• 24MB pre-/post-event recording buffer
• Easy installation and management using Grandstream’s web-based graphical user interface
• Using GSurf, Grandstream’s free video management software, businesses can monitor and control up to 36 cameras simultaneously.

PLUS:

GXV3611_HD camera includes 2-Mexapixel progressive scan CMOS sensor and advanced lens while delivering multi-rate H.264 real-time video streaming with a maximum resolution of 1,600×900 and at frame rate of up to 25fps.

The GXV3601_LL captures and streams high quality real-time video under low light conditions (as low as 0.05Lux) and up to 30fps with full D1 (720×480) or VGA (640×480) resolution.

The products will be available in March, 2010 at a list price of $389 and $289 respectively.

3CX and Beronet have recently announced a strategic partnership to provide a complete IP PBX solution. Joining us today is Nick Galea CEO of 3CX and Gürsel Kücük, one of the founders of Beronet.

Below is a summary of our call.

VoIPon: Nick, last time we spoke, you mentioned you’d like to explain to us a little more about 3CX and how it works with the various VoIP gateways on the market. Why don’t you tell us a little more about your various interoperability partners?

[Nick Galea, CEO of 3CX] Yes, so 3CX is an open standard solution. We support SIP standard. So we can work with a broad range of SIP devices, including, of course, various VoIP gateways and also IP phones. This is very important for a customer, because they won’t get tied down to a particular brand.

At the same time, we want to of course give an end-to-end user experience and make it easy for a customer to configure 3CX phone with all the different SIP devices. So, what we’ve done is included auto configuration for all the popular VoIP gateways and IP phones that we support, we also have configuration guides, and we also have end to end technical support for supported VoIP gateways, which include Patton Gateways, Beronet Gateways, and of course, Sangoma Gateways & Grandstream Gateways. So we can support various VoIP gateways from different manufacturers, so partners and customers can choose what’s best for them. Plus, we can still provide end to end support, both in the software, as well as through technical support with the customers, so they can be sure they will have a complete working solution.

VoIPon: So Nick, maybe you can tell me, what is so great about the Berofix range?

[Nick Galea, CEO of 3CX] Well, it’s available as a card and as a separate device—so resellers can deploy the same device either in a server or as a separate box, based on customer wishes. It’s priced well too with an E1 gateway well under 1000 Euros. Furthermore, the solution will be available with GSM modules too in the future, which means customers can use the same gateway for both ISDN and GSM, should the need arise.

VoIPon:  Gürsel, is there anything you’d like to add?

[Gürsel Kücük, Co-Founder of Beronet] Due to the modular concept, Berofix is a hybrid solution. Currently, you can mix PRI and BRI modules on one card or even in a box. We are currently working on analog modules (FXS and FXO) as well as on GSM modules. As soon as they are ready, the scope of combinations will be more and more attractive.

VoIPon: Gürsel, what makes Berofix cards different?

[Gürsel Kücük, Co-Founder of Beronet] In comparison to other Media Gateways, Berofix has a very attractive cost-performance ratio. And in comparison to other card solutions, Berofix has a lot more features, for instance T.38 and Codec translation. Berofix is a gateway card and this makes it very unique.

VoIPon: Nick, how about from your perspective, what makes these cards different?

[Nick Galea, CEO of 3CX] Even though they are cards and can be deployed in a server, they are not dependent on the OS, meaning they don’t require drivers and can be addressed via IP. This makes it possible to use the cards in a virtualized environment.

VoIPon: Why bundle 3CX with Berofix?

[Nick Galea, CEO of 3CX] A great thing about 3CX is that you can support both VoIP providers and existing PSTN lines at the same time. This allows a gradual migration and you can keep using your existing ISDN lines as long as you want.

WIth the 3CX/Berofix bundle, customers can buy a total solution and migrate it very cost effectively, whilst being assured of single vendor support. 3CX will support this solution end to end.

Gürsel, Why is Beronet happy to be able to offer this bundle in combination with 3CX?

[Gürsel Kücük, Co-Founder of Beronet] 3CX is one of the leading Software IP PBX vendors for Windows systems and we are happy to assist them with our Berofix solution. 3CX has been rapidly gaining market share because the software is Windows based and easy to manage. The market has been demanding such a solution, and the combination with our Berofix cards makes even more easy to install and to manage an end to end PBX solution.

Please visit the VoIPon website for the 3CX/ Beronet-Berofix bundle promotion.

Last week at TMCnet’s ITExpo, Redfone Communications providers of next-generation open source telephony solutions to small to enterprise-size businesses and makers of the foneBRIDGE product line, announced that they were integrating TeleSoft’s TsLinkNet IP-PBX VoIP Gateway Solution into their Telecom Offerings.

We took the opportunity to interview Mark Warren, the company’s president about their latest offerings and the state of the market. Below is a summary of our call.

1. VoIPon: So in light of this recent announcement, what changes are in store for your product line and what does this mean for your customers?

[Mark Warren, President, Redfone] First of all, thanks for inviting us to participate in the podcast, Kathleen.

With this announcement, first of all we’re really excited to be a partnering with such a first class organization like Telesoft. These guys are highly talented and experienced veterans in the telephony world. As you probably know, Telesoft’s code has been and continues to be used by all of the major telco gear manufacturers around the world. And we’re excited to finally be bringing their offering to the open source community and others.

Specifically, what this product will allow Redfone to do is now offer T1 or E1 to SIP connectivity to any SIP compliant PBX or application. So, we’re getting outside the realm of open source telephony, like Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, or Elastix or Trixbox and we’re branching out to anything that is essentially SIP compliant. And although the product works fantastically with all the popular guys like I just mentioned, like Asterisk and Free SWITCH, we’ll be able to play friendly with other popular products like sipX, another popular product like Open SIP, which is another popular SIP-based product that was called Open SER before, and like I said, anybody that has a SIP compliant application or PBX.

Some of the highlights of the product are, like I said, it basically takes the guesswork out of having to integrate with the PSTN, the public switched telephone network. That seems to be a headache for a lot of developers that don’t understand some of these archaic standards that were built in the ISDN, and we try to take all of the guess work out it with this particular product offering. It does all of the magic and just hands off the connectivity in the form of a simple SIP trunk to the end user, which can then plug into whatever SIP compliant application or device. It can run alongside their software application on the same server, or it can function as a highly robust and affordable, T1/E1 to SIP gateway on a standalone type device.

2. VoIPon: On another front Redfone introduced a new, low-cost single port foneBRIDGE device at the beginning of the year. What is the market for this new offering?

[MW] Well, Redfone has been the de facto standard for large, complex, high availability type systems, for a number of years now. We’ve been happy and successful in that niche. But at the same time, we’ve noticed that many of our customers, and many of the people in the market, have overlooked the fact that our devices are also great alternatives to legacy PCI type interfaces and are a perfect fit for simple, not complex, T1/E1 installs. This new Redfone foneBRIDGE2-EC Single Port offering is positioned for these types of installations. It’s cost competitive when compared to equivalent single port PCI card offerings, and like all of our other products, it’s really simple to install and maintain.

3. VoIPon: There is a lot of competition in this market. Why would someone choose a foneBRIDGE appliance? How do you differentiate yourselves against failover solutions like those from OpenVox (FA40, FB40, FD40) and the  Rhino 1PFAIL?

[MW] Generally speaking, our device is a bit more flexible in terms of compatibility with different types of server platforms. So, one of the areas that we addressed from the very beginning when we got into this game, back in 2004, was to make it a lot easier to integrate Asterisk at the time with the telephone company.

Back then, the only thing that was available was the PCI based cards, and they had a number of issues in terms of compatibility with different types of server mother boards. So we kind of eliminated that factor to begin with.

Speaking directly to the different failover offerings out there, looking at the OpenVox and the Rhino offerings, for example, both of those solutions are based on the fact that to get full redundancy, you have to double up on the number of PCI interface cards, that have on top of that, specific failover gear that sits in the middle, which essentially means that triple the investment that you would normally make.

Second, by virtue of introducing more devices in the mix you’re also introducing more single points of failure, which is kind of counter to what high availability is all about.

The Redfone device provides everything in a single, very robust, durable device solution, at the cost of single PCI card.

To summarize: it’s easier to install; it’s going to be a fraction of the cost of those other solutions; and not to mention, we’ve been in the high availability game, probably longer than anyone else in this particular market.

4. VoIPon: Is there any economic benefit to choosing a Redfone foneBRIDGE2 over say a TDM card + Software installed in a server?

[MW] At face value, our products are very comparable in pricing to the many legacy PCI card offerings on the market. In a few cases, we’re actually even a little more affordable.

Beyond a price comparison, our devices actually allow system architects, much more flexibility in their choice of server hardware, which can also equate to a reduction in their total cost of ownership or implementation.

With the ease of install of our devices, and the fact that they are not so hardware dependent, many of our customers are learning that they no longer have to invest in the biggest, most expensive, brand name server platforms to get everything to work properly. They can go out and buy inexpensive, commodity server hardware and use that savings to leverage better discounts to their end customers, or impress the boss with their savvy money saving strategies.

5. VoIPon: Where do you see the market going and what would you think the next steps are going to be for RedFone?

[MW] Well, definitely we’re seeing a continued growth in the adoption of open source telephony, without a doubt.  You know at this stage in the game, Asterisk, for example, has been on the market now for 10 years. The stigma of it being, just a nerd project, without a lot of legs underneath it to really compete with the big boys has been overcome. The fact that open source telephony has been adopted by governments as well, as large enterprises and in high profile instances in some case, is bolstering the legitimacy of open source. So the uptake of open source telephony in general is going to continue to grow.

Add to that, there is also some pretty strong competition amongst the different open source applications being developed on the market today. It’s pretty apparent that open source is going to be around for a while and people are going to continue to get to know it and use it.

In addition to that, we don’t see the need for traditional TDM connectivity to the PSTN to go away. There is still the need to interface with a T1 or E1 line or even legacy PBXs, if you’re interfacing your open source telephony application with an old PBX.

But long term, it does seem that everything is converging on the SIP protocol, which Redfone is now positioned to serve with our latest offering from the Telesoft stable of products.

VoIPon: Thanks for your time Mark. Mark Warren is president of RedFone Communications.

This has been a VoIP Uncovered Podcast brought to you by VoIPon Solutions. For more information please visit www.voipon.co.uk.

The Highlights
Installation: 5
Documentation: 4
Features: 4.5
Overall: A-

What is the V-114?
- 4 ports of Analog FXO for connecting trunk lines
- Asterisk Integrated on the card
- 1 port of FXS for connecting a phone or a fax machine

Who is the market for this card?
Resellers — because it’s 100% SIP based there is no API to learn.

Installation:
No driver required. It works with Windows, Linux, etc., and simply installs as an Ethernet network adapter into any PCI slot.  You can simply send SIP traffic to the card and it will do SIP to TDM conversion or SIP trunking, making it a simple plug n’ play VoIP gateway.

Operational Testing:

• On an extension to extension test call, the “voice quality was perfect.”  TMC reports.
• They also tested the two built in conference bridges and each performed well with excellent echo cancellation.
• Full console access to the Linux Operating System by SSHing into the card, where you can peruse and modify the important Asterisk Config files.
• Can use a web admin tool to make the changes; however, it is not clear changes need to be saved before they are applied, TMC reports.

Conclusion
The 256MB of permanent and NAND Flash memory is enough for most users. It would be nice to have a larger 512MB option in case power Asterisk developers wish to load large custom applications. It’s easy to order, versatile, and easy to manage. Overall, the reviewer recommended that VoIP developers check out the Postitron Telecom “Asterisk-on-a-card” solutions.

Check out TMC Labs’ full review.

Now discussion is taking place within Government Agencies, which will determine the future of The Maunsell Towers.

July 2007 saw the first licensed Red Sands Radio broadcast from the Redsand Fort.  The 10 day Restricted Service Licence allowed transmission on medium wave and a webcast, commemorating 40 years since the demise of “offshore radio” from the Thames Estuary forts, which VoIPon proudly sponsored.

To date, media support has been excellent. The Project has been covered by the Times, BBC Breakfast TV, The Telegraph and a host of local TV, Radio and newspapers. Project Redsand is supported entirely by voluntary contribution and is a registered charity.

Once restored, some of the proposed uses of the fort include communications towers and a museum.

You can also help preserve this historic structure by donating to registered charity number 1117429.

Service providers and other implementations requiring a large number of PRI ports will appreciate the high density E1/T1 Astribank. This compact unit supports up to 16 PRI ports for up to 480 E1 channels (or up to 384 T1 channels) in a compact, 19″ rack-mountable chassis. This modular, expandable unit features built-in redundancy, as each four-port module works independently, and the entire unit is powered by Xorcom’s dedicated multiple redundant power supply unit.

This week, Howler Technologies officially announced its ground breaking type of transcoding card—the Howler Screamer. The card works with your existing IP PBX software, such as Asterisk and FreeSwitch and is designed to businesses a huge advantage in terms of cost and performance because of the cell technology it uses.

Below is the summary transcription of the podcast we recently recorded.

VoIPon:  You’ve told us that Howler Screamer can process up to 425 simultaneous G.729 calls and is over three times faster than any solution currently on the market. Perhaps you can tell us what sort of technology you’re using, and give us an overview of how this works?

[Jay Fenton, CTO, Howler Technologies:] Hi Kathleen. Yes, so the Howler Screamer card is based on some technology that has been around for a couple of years. It’s called the cell processor. The cell processor has been used in every Playstation 3, and more recently, it’s been in the high-range plasma TVs—high-definition TVs that people like Toshiba are producing.

We’re actually the first company in the world to take that technology to the telecoms market. And what that allows us to do is to give incredible levels of performance that just have not been possible before in the areas of signal processing, in transcoding, and in taking off some of the heavy lifting that is typically done on your host CPU inside of Asterisk and FreeSwitch environments.

VoIPon: What sort of business would benefit from using your Screamer PCIe board?

[JF:] The Screamer Board, as well as the software-based version, the Howlet, which is the G.729 codec that we’ve developed, they’re applicable to quite a range of telephony environments, the first being, for example call centres.

You want to save on bandwidth. Typically, call centres represent a large concentration of users, and internet bandwidth is usually at a premium and…or bandwidth to their local provider.  And by using low bit rate codecs, they can actually drop that bandwidth down substantially and G.729 is literally one eighth of the bandwidth utilisation by G.711, which is the codec that is typically used. So our technology allows the call centre to make great cost savings in that sense.

On the other side of the industry, the VoIP operators themselves, and companies that are making calls over the public internet, and making them over lossy networks, is where G.729 really comes into its own, because it is not only one eighth of the bandwidth, giving you the cost savings on the bandwidth side, but also much better in dealing with those lossy networks, where packets can typically get dropped very easily and with a typical codec, such as G.711, it is able to recover much more gracefully than that, so the call quality is actually is increased, even though the bandwidth is so much lower.

VoIPon: Howler also offers a similar product in a software only format only. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

[JF:] The software product that we sell currently is actually a G.729 codec, and we’ll have other codecs in the future. Howler offers a G.711 and G.729 software and a hardware product which is able to offload the processing onto a PCIe board. Now the software is fantastic, because you just purchase exactly the number of channels you need of G.729 and then download the software, and be up and running in a few minutes.

Historically, people haven’t been deploying things like G.729 for two reasons. The first is there’s been a barrier to entry on costs. So we’ve been working very closely with people like Sipro, the patent holders of our G.729, to bring those costs down as much as possible.

And secondly, G.729, and other low bit rates are very CPU intensive, and so as you start to increase the number of concurrent calls on your Asterisk or FreeSwitch box, you’ll find that you start hitting a bottle neck.

Now ultimately, Howler’s codecs are very, very optimized. We’ve developed them to get as many calls as we can through a box. And typically on an Intel, quad core box, you can 400 – 500 concurrent calls, but if you wanted to do other things on that server, you might have complex, IVRs or Voice Recognition, um, quite a few other things that also want or are vying for CPU attention, then you might as well move that transcoding or signal processing off onto a separate board. And that is what a Howler screamer product is. It uses cell processor technology, mounted on a PCI board, and offloads all of that processing onto the cell processor itself, so your CPU is freed up to do other tasks.

And we’ve brought this to the market at a very good price point. The board itself is only a couple hundred dollars. And just as you can with our software package, you can actually buy just as many G.729 licenses as you need, and upgrade it over time.

Key to the success of our hardware offering is that we can actually give you additional software modules for the board that unlock additional functionality. So you can keep the same board, and literally just upgrade it as the months go by and as Howler releases more and more products for you.

VoIPon: So, have you had any success stories in the field that you’d like to share?

[JF:] Well, we’ve kicked off 2010 with some fantastic sales, and we’re looking to some joint PR with those sales over the next few weeks. Our Howler Screamer board is being used in a large call centre, as well as VoIP operators, and they are very happy with it because now they can actually deploy G.729 to their users and very cost effectively and very, very, scalably, as well.

VoIPon: What makes your product different from the competition, and why should people purchase a Howler Screamer, instead of say the Digium TC400B or the Synway Transcoder Cards?

[JF:] So, Howler’s products are based on quite different technology than the cards you mentioned, and that is one of the reasons why we’re able to achieve four times the performance as anyone else in the industry. The cell processor is a very powerful chip, and by mounting that on a PCIe board and using technology from Toshiba to do that, we have a very reliable product, but also a very scalable and very cost effective product, as well.

Historically, all of the signal processing, the transcoding, of low bit rate codecs has been done on DSPs, digital signal processors. And DSPs have been around for twenty plus years, and although they are mainstay in the telecoms industry, the trouble with DSPs is overtime, they kind of stagnated in their technology. And they are no where the performance of an Intel chip, an AMD chip or in particular, the cell processor, which is even further ahead in terms of performance.

So what Howler has done, is harness that technology and brought it to the telecoms world where it can actually do the work, of several, or actually a dozen DSPs, just on a single chip. That gives you a lot of cost savings, a lot of performance increase, as well, as power savings, as well.

VoIPon: Where do you see the market going and what are the next steps for Howler?

[JF:] Well, the market, the telecoms industry in general, is obviously shifting to an IP and over time to an all IP environment. There’s probably always going to be a need for transcoding.

A lot of people are talking about wideband codecs now, which is something Howler has done a lot of research on. Watch this space for future products from Howler in that regard.

But even in the wideband world, once again, we’re not able to agree on a one codec that fits everyone needs. For example, the mobile networks will all be using AMR wideband, whereas all of the desk phones that are out there are now starting to switch to G.722 and not to AMR. So, where you have two disparate networks that are using different technology, there is going to be a need to do a lot of heavy lifting, a lot of number crunching, to actually turn one codec into another, and actually allow those two networks to communicate together.

So Howler has been focusing on solving that problem, in giving you the best platform that we can to not have to worry too much about how you are going to integrate with all of these other networks. And being able to do it cost effectively, and to have great sounding, and great quality audio that is still going to be able to keep that interoperability.

So in terms of next steps for Howler, as I mentioned, our Howler screamer card is in-field upgradeable, so you can just add additional software modules, which will just run on the card, which will allow us to support new codecs, new signal processing technology. And over the next few months we have quite a few new modules that will be coming out.  So, please have a look at our website which is www.HowlerTech.com.

VoIPon: Thanks for your time Jay. Jay Fenton is the CTO of Howler Technologies.

This has been a VoIP Uncovered Podcast brought to you by VoIPon Solutions. For more information please visit www.voipon.co.uk.