PCI card offers a host of media processing

Pika Technologies has announced the initial release of AllOnHost capabilities available in the Pika MonteCarlo software development kit as well as the release of a digital gateway board.

Pika Technologies has announced the initial release of AllOnHost capabilities available in the Pika MonteCarlo software development kit as well as the release of a digital gateway board.

With Pika's patent-pending AllOnHost architecture, standard voice, tone, and modem applications that have traditionally run only on DSPs can now also run on the host without loss of quality or performance.

Pika's AllOnHost technology incorporates interfaces for both IP and TDM networks, allows applications to make and receive calls, and provides media processing capabilities.

Media processing applications include play and record, tone and DTMF detection/generation, conference summing and low latency switching.

Codec support includes G.711 and G.729.

"Developers can choose between AllOnBoard (DSP-based) media processing, AllOnHost media processing, or a blend of both depending on application requirements", said Doug Petty, Vice President of Technology and Operations at Pika.

"We provide access to both from the same SDK".

"Throughout the design and development process for the host-based technology, we have set aggressive targets for performance and reliability", added Petty.

"For example, in a Windows or Linux environment, depending on the application, Pika AllOnHost can provide up to 600 active channels".

Successful testing has been completed for both Windows and Linux, using Intel and AMD processors.

Cintech, a leading provider of customer connection technology, has built cNotify, a reliable high-volume messaging solution, using Pika AllOnHost processing.

"Using Pika, we were really able to simplify management and improve growth potential with the host-based processing solution", stated Bryant Downey, Cintech's Chief Technology Officer.

"From a scalability perspective, it is very easy to grow the capacity of this solution".

"At Pika, we understand that host-based processing requires not only IP connectivity but also needs to interface to TDM networks", stated Doug Petty.

In an all-IP boardless implementation, Pika AllOnHost software uses the PC's network interface card (NIC) for SIP call control and low latency RTP.

To provide efficient connectivity to traditional TDM networks, Pika has also introduced a digital gateway board.

This first of a new generation of analogue and digital connectivity boards has been specially designed and optimised for AllOnHost-media processing is accomplished using Pika AllOnHost software resources.

The board provides up to four T1/E1 digital interfaces on a 5.3in card and will be released first in a PCI format.

The Pika Digital PCI gateway board is but the first in a series of gateway boards that will be rolled out over the next year.

A PCI Express analogue gateway board will be introduced later this year followed by a PCI Express version of the digital gateway board the first half of next year.

In the early life of the company, as part of the product strategy, the Pika design team made the architectural decision to power the call control stacks on the computer's host processor.

They have leveraged that knowledge and expertise as they enable current DSP-based media processing algorithms to run on the host as well.

The company's product roadmap provides choice for developers in converged TDM/IP and pure IP environments.

The new version of Pika MonteCarlo SDK, which provides the Pika AllOnHost processing capabilities, as well as the Pika Digital PCI Gateway Board, will be available at the end of June.

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