Sangoma Unveils D150 Voice Transcoding Series

Sangoma Technologies (News - Alert) Corporation, a provider of hardware and software components, launched the D150 voice transcoding series, the latest addition to its transcoding board offering, targeted for the embedded and stand-alone VoIP solutions markets.

“The D150 series along with our existing D100 and D500 offering provides increased deployment flexibility for developers and integrators,” Frederic Dickey, director of product management at Sangoma said in a statement.

“Whether your telecom solution integrations call for standard servers with PCI (News - Alert) interfaces or custom development, Sangoma offers a form factor to help you. Moreover, integration development investment is protected because the software that enables all D-series products is exactly the same,” Dickey added.

Sangoma official also clarified that the D150 boards are specifically engineered to perform the required transcoding without impacting the host performance, allowing the system to support a significantly increased number of calls. The D150 series is said to support a wide range of industry standard codecs and is offered in 3 form factors for greater deployment possibilities and flexibility.

The three form factors of D150 series are the D150-ETH board which offers the ability to add transcoding capabilities for compact form factors where no PCI interfaces are available or for when the CPU does not have enough power to handle extra loads; the D150-BOX appliance provides the ability to easily set-up stand-alone transcoding media servers within a very small footprint; the D150-PMC board allows the addition of voice transcoding to be embedded in custom hardware designs using the PMC IEEE (News - Alert) 1386 standard.

A company statement revealed that the D150 board makes it possible to convert numerous simultaneous channels of voice communication from one type of codec to another, without affecting latency or using up precious host CPU resources. Each D150 product can also run up to 400 channels of any-to-any voice codec conversion with unmatched quality.

Moreover, the D150 software drivers also provide “plug-and-play” capabilities for both Asterisk and FreeSWITCH - two leading open source telephony projects. With the compatible drivers, the open source telephony platforms can use the D150 boards as voice transcoding resources, said the company in a press release.

Sangoma recently selected the winners from 70-plus entries from around the world for its 2010 Top Application Contest announced back in December. The winning companies are eligible to present their applications to a worldwide audience during a Sangoma sponsored webinar on May 16 at 2 pm EST.