Sangoma has today announced the upcoming availability of their new D100 hardware transcoding card and software to enable high density server-based voice and data communications applications with up to 480 channels of voice transcoding per card.
“Voice transcoding is an essential, but costly, component of most VoIP applications and networks,” said Fredric Dickey, Director of Product Management at Sangoma. “While software solutions can reasonably handle a handful of channels on a server, our card-based solution allows for hundreds of simultaneous voice transcoding channels in a single server, without compromising on audio quality.”
The Sangoma D100, available in both PCI and PCI Express form factors, uses dedicated hardware resources to convert multiple simultaneous channels of compressed voice from one codec to another (such as G.711 to G.729) without affecting latency or using the host’s CPU resources. The card supports 30, 90, 120, 240 or 480 channels of any-to-any voice codec conversion.
Sangoma has created the D100 with unparalleled flexibility, which is shown by the impressive list of codecs supported:
- G.711
- G.722
- G.722.1
- G.726
- G.729AB
- GSM-FR, GSM-EFR
- AMR, AMR-WB (G.722.2)
- iLBC
- L8 (Linear 8K), L16 (Linear 16K)
Both Asterisk and FreeSWITCH are supported, with plug-and-play driver support for both, as well as an API for custom development support.
Hardware transcoding cards such as the D100 allow the creation of ultra-high density applications using CPU-intensive codecs such as G.729 with guaranteed performance, all without overloading the host CPU.
The Sangoma D100 is expected to be released in the coming weeks, and has a list price of $750 for the base model with 30 channels.
Update: The Sangoma D100 is now in stock and available for sale, starting at $705.00 for the 30 simultaneous channel version.