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News Release from: Pika Technologies | Subject: Daytona
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 February 2006
Fax boards work with open source PBX
software
A new free software layer allows interoperability between Pika high-density analogue boards and Asterisk PBX software.
Pika Technologies has integrated its high-density analogue computer plug-in boards with the open source Asterisk PBX, with the introduction of Pika Connect for Asterisk Pika Connect for Asterisk is a software layer, available free of charge and distributed under the Gnu Public Licence (GPL), which allows interoperability between Pika high-density analogue boards (Daytona MM) and Asterisk PBX software
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The Asterisk development community can now benefit from advanced features for fax and echo cancellation in high density analogue applications, made possible by Pika's DSP processing power on the board", stated Wojciech Tryc, Enterprise VoIP architect at Pika Technologies.
"Because of the native bridging for TDM calls, latency is drastically reduced - nearly eliminated - in this implementation".
"The solution is very reliable, as we have witnessed not only in the lab, but in live customer environments".
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Stroudwater Contact Point, based in Portland Maine, provides software development services, applications and infrastructure for contact centres.
"We have chosen Pika's Daytona MM analogue hardware for analogue support in their upcoming Asterisk-based Dirigo iQueue PBX/ACD product because of the scalability and density of 24 ports for either loop start or POTS.
onboard switching of calls and onboard echo cancellation make the product more efficient and ease demands on the server's CPU.
Further, Pika support throughout our development has been outstanding", said Bill Hunt, President and CTO at Stroudwater Contact Point.
"Our next step is to integrate the Pika onboard fax solution".
Unlimitel offers VoIP services to business customers across Canada using the VoIP/PSTN network and was looking for a way to deliver reliable fax.
Stephan Monette, President of Unlimitel stated: "Using Asterisk and the Pika [high density analogue] Daytona board was quick and easy".
"We were able to demonstrate the stability of the fax service in our lab within 24 hours".
Kanatek Technologies is an Ottawa, Ontario-based systems integrator delivering IT consulting and support services to a variety of companies in North America.
Paul Labelle, Vice President of Operations at Kanatek said: "We were impressed with the flexibility and customisation that the Pika Connect for Asterisk solution could provide".
"We were able to integrate it with our current PBX system, and extend our communications network to nearly 100 users at multiple locations including the corporate office, branch office and remote locations".
Asterisk developers can be up and running quickly with Pika Connect for Asterisk and Pika hardware.
"For those familiar with using the Asterisk platform, no additional training is required".
"They can take advantage of the Pika solution with minimal effort or investment", said Pika Technologies' Wojciech Tryc.
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