Author: James Chapman

Yealink Releases New Firmware V50 for SIP-T2x Series IP Phone

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , , , , , |

Yealink, a leading manufacturer of IP voice and video phones, has released a new firmware update for its award winning series of IP phones—SIP-T2x. This enterprise HD IP phone series encompasses high-performance and affordable SIP telephones that help businesses leverage the increasing benefits of VoIP telephone systems. According to the company, the phones provide high quality audio, a broad range of voice codecs, security protection for privacy and rich telephony features. This new firmware enhancement, available for downloading from Yealink’s website, includes a number of advanced features such as security protection, performance improvement and bug fixes. Specially, the added XML-support enables customization and integration, connecting business processes and people to critical information by providing display-based access to services and applications. Users can easily access information and perform tasks. For example, use the displays on the IP Phones in hotel rooms to make dining reservations, set up wake-up calls, purchase attraction tickets, get directions, and check on flight status and so on. Other new features: XML Screen/Browser—XML browser is a simple sip-phone-custom browser function based on XML. With XML browser, customers can personalize their features，such as weather forecast inquiry, stock information, date inquiry, access to address book, and other functions. Hot Desking—Hot Desking allows users to login their personal accounts on different phones anywhere. It is used in office where staffs are shifting to work especially like call center to...

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Sangoma Voice Transcoding Card Officially Launched, Currently in Customer Trials

Posted by | May 4, 2010 | , , |

Today is a day for transcoding—Sangoma just officially announced its new D100 Card. The D100 supports up to 480 Channels of Premium-Quality Voice Transcoding per card and is designed to create efficiency, cost Savings and top audio quality in open source telephony applications. Octasic also announced a similar card this afternoon, marketed toward larger systems. “Voice transcoding is an essential, but costly, component of most VoIP applications and networks,” said Frederic Dickey, director of product management at Sangoma. “While software solutions can reasonably handle a handful of channels on a server, our card-based solution allows for hundreds of simultaneous voice transcoding channels in a single server, without compromising on audio quality.” Most IP telephony applications require the use of multiple types of voice codecs, which are used to digitally compress the voice signals at any given deployment. While voice signals from the Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN) always come in the form of the G.711 codec, the VoIP terminal equipment and networks support a variety of voice codecs including G.729, G.726, AMR, etc. VoIP infrastructure most often needs to include the capability to mediate between endpoints supporting different codecs, but this ‘transcoding’ digital signal processing task is often costly, resource intensive and can affect the quality of the voice signals if it introduces too much latency or delay. The D100 card, available in PCI and PCI Express form factors,...

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Octasic TXP1000 High-Density Video Transcoding Cards Announced

Posted by | May 4, 2010 | , , , |

Today, Octasic announced the immediate availability of its new range of high density video transcoding cards, the TXP1000. Octasic has designed the TXP1000 PCI Express (PCIe) plug-in cards to directly offload the host CPUs for high channel density video and voice transcoding applications. The TXP1000 cards use Octasic’s award winning Vocallo MGW (DSPs) Digital Signal Processors and media processing software stack to provide an easy to use and low power (less than 25 Watts) accelerator card in a PCI Express form factor. The company claims that the TXP1000 cards provide the highest transcoding density per watt in the industry using: H.264, MPEG4, H.263 video codecs and G711, G729, AMR voice codecs: A single TXP1000 card easily delivers 335 channels of video transcoding while offering power consumption well within the power budget of a single PCI card. The TXP1000 cards should enable network service providers and Internet equipment manufacturers to rapidly develop and deploy efficient and high channel density video transcoding systems. John Fry, director of business development at Octasic Inc. said in today’s press release, “Compared to standard x86 server-based solutions that suffer from serious power, cost and scalability limitations, Octasic’s TXP1000-based systems provide tangible benefits that can cut video transcoding systems capital costs in half, reduce the power consumption by a factor of 8 and still deliver 5 times more channels per unit of rack space. Octasic is...

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Migrating to SIP? Meet ApplianX. VoIPon Interviews Tim Joint, Aculab

Posted by | Apr 22, 2010 | , , , , |

Recently we had the opportunity to interview Tim Joint, Commercial Manager for Aculab. Aculab provides IP and media processing boards, software and gateways to the global communications market. Aculab partners with VoIPon to distribute the ApplianX brand of VoIP gateways in the UK/WorldWide. Listen to the podcast or read the transcription below. [VoIPon]  I’m aware of Aculab but have only recently starting to hear talk of ApplianX (Pronounced: Appliance), is this a new product direction? [Tim Joint, Commercial Manager, Aculab] Well, ApplianX is a brand started by Aculab for the enterprise market, offering telecom appliances. The products are unique in the market, because they are by in large single purpose devices, designed to address specific issues in specific environments. Not only to simplify the design of the product, but also resulting in a much more cost effective solution for both the channel partner, and the end user perspective. We think there’s much less complexity with ApplianX than there are with competing products, which seems to make both the end customers and our distributors very happy which is an important part when operating in today’s channel environment. Specifically, ApplianX has two main products today, which are both gateways. There’s a DPNSS to Q.SIG Gateway, which is primarily for the UK market, and that enables legacy DPNSS based PBXs and services to connect to other devices or services, which don’t support...

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VoIPon Nominated for Distributor of the Year

Posted by | Mar 29, 2010 | , |

VoIPon has been included in the Comms Business Awards 2010 Reader Vote – Distributor of the Year. If you’re a Comms Business Reader, (subscriptions are free), your vote matters! Vote now. The Rules 1. Only votes made by registered readers of Comms Business Magazine will be valid for the three reader vote categories. 2. Only one vote per reader will be counted for each category with up to five votes from any one company. 3. Please note that votes for nominated companies by their own staff will not be counted. According to Comms Business, your vote should be based upon your own experience of working with the companies nominated. Consider the service, products and support offered by them to you or your company. Voting will be open until 14th May 2010. Vote for VoIPon in the Comms Business Awards 2010...

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