Gateway approach reduces risks of move to VoIP

Pika Technologies media processing building blocks, designed specifically for the intelligent gateway market, offer viable solutions that can be deployed today, with flexibility for further evolution.

Application developers and enterprise customers are rallying around VoIP.

For many years, this new technology has been gaining market traction.

Now, its original promise to enable significant cost savings and enable value-added features is becoming reality.

Therefore, these audiences are in the midst of determining how best to proceed in this constantly developing market.

Pika Technologies media processing building blocks, designed specifically for the intelligent gateway market, offer viable solutions that can be deployed today, while providing the flexibility for further evolution.

The majority of legacy premise equipment (PBXs and applications) in the market today is TDM based.

IT/telecomms management is faced with two choices if they are to realise the benefits of VoIP: either an expensive forklift upgrade of existing equipment and infrastructure, or the installation of gateway technology.

Pika Technologies believes the gateway approach has more advantages and, thus, will be more palatable to these decision makers.

While an "off-the-shelf" gateway may be a good approach in some cases, there is an inherent problem.

Only basic features, such as protocol conversion, are provided with little or no capability to customise to specific requirements.

Pika Technologies believes application developers will derive major benefit from designing "special purpose" gateways for their customers - enter the intelligent Pika VoIP Gateway.

This hardware/software-based solution from Pika Technologies is flexible, reliable and delivers the necessary platform to ensure customers are future-proofed.

Pika technology can be used to deploy VoIP gateway functionality inside an application server.

The software and hardware media processing building blocks include a low-level API, a variety of line interfaces and densities, AllOnBoard voice and fax processing, and custom DSP applications.

This functionality gives application developers the right tools to deploy intelligent gateways for the enterprise VoIP market.

Pika hardware provides connectivity to the legacy TDM network, thereby leveraging integration with the PSTN (ie call progress tone detection, inband signalling, and voice and answering machine detection).

Pika software translates and converts a variety of TDM protocols to IP.

Intelligent DSP applications include play and record, conferencing, switching, tromboning of calls, as well as custom applications.

Developers can take advantage of Pika Technologies' wide range of voice and fax processing applications by gateway-enabling their products with Pika building blocks.

"The intelligent Pika VoIP Gateway allows developers worldwide to gateway-enable their existing applications", explained Terry Atwood, Vice President Sales, Marketing and Customer Care.

"Our solution for the special purpose, intelligent gateway market takes care of the features the application developers' customers need today".

"The approach is cost effective and easy to install and maintain, while allowing for requirements changes that may be driven by future evolution".

"The Pika VoIP Gateway delivers the benefits of IP in a traditional TDM environment".

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