Contact:
Rick Segrest
Digium, Inc.
(256) 428-6200
rsegrest@digium.com
Janine Savarese
MRB Public Relations
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jsavarese@mrb-pr.com
Huntsville, AL, Hanover, Germany and San Jose, CA — (March 14, 2006) — Digium Inc., the creator of Asterisk™ and pioneer of open source telephony, today announced the availability of its Basic Rate Interface (BRI) card, the B410P, for the European and Worldwide markets. The B410P enables Basic Rate ISDN S/T connectivity for Asterisk users outside of North America and connects eight digital voice channels (four ISDN lines for a total of eight B-channels) per card to an Asterisk server.
"We want to make sure that we are providing Asterisk users in the European and Worldwide markets with all of the tools they need to build a complete open source telephony platform," said Mark Spencer, president of Digium. "The B410P gives Asterisk users the leading solution for terminating BRI interfaces."
The B410P is a half-length, full-height universal 3.3V and 5.0V 32-bit PCI 2.2 card supporting four BRI S/T interfaces. Each of the four ports of the B410P can be independently configured for TE or NT mode, with an optional PWR400M module for supplying power to ISDN telephones. The B410P features on-board hardware echo cancellation performing 64ms or 512 taps per channel for each of the eight voice channels.
Support and Availability
The Digium B410P is available now through Digium's worldwide distributors and through the Digium website. For more information, please contact sales@digium.com or call 1-256-428-6262. All Digium products are backed with a two-year limited warranty, including installation and troubleshooting support. Users can also purchase an optional one-year extended warranty.
About Digium
Digium is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source PBX and Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures.
Digium provides quality hardware and software products that enable telephony applications including legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, next generation gateways, media servers and application servers. Digium also offers a full range of professional services including consulting, technical support and customer software development services.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the world. It supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX, SIP and H.323. It supports US and European standard signaling types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, Asterisk SCF, Switchvox, Asterisk Business Edition, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Appliance and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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