Digium has quietly announced on it’s channel portal a new transcoder card.  The TCE400 VoIP Transcoder Card will be available for general release on Tuesday, June 30th, subject to change. The TCE400B is a half-length, low-profile PCI-Express x1 card for packet-to-packet VoIP transcoding with Asterisk. The TCE400B decompresses the complex G.729a (8.0kbit) or G.723.1 (5.3/6.3kbit) codecs into G.711 u-law or a-law and transforms the simple G.711 codecs into complex G.729a (8.0kbit) or G.723.1 (5.3kbit).

The TCE400B is rated to handle up to 120 bi-directional G.729a transformations or 92 bi-directional G.723.1 transformations. Unlike Digium’s software G.729a, the TCE400B requires no key registration and all software licensing is bundled into the price of the card. The TCE400B is the PCI-Express equivalent of the already released TC400B PCI card.