Digium Inc., maker of the Asterisk (News - Alert) brand of open source telephony solutions, recently introduced the AEX800, “the industry’s first” eight port PCI Express-based telephony card.

This new telephony card for service providers and enterprises operating VoIP networks features eight two-wire RJ-11 interfaces in a single server slot, eliminating the need for multiple slots, dongles, splitters or any other additional points of possible failure. To provide maximum flexibility in deployments, it is configurable in single-port increments between station and trunk interfaces.

Digium (News - Alert) claims that when this new card is used in tandem with its G.168-compliant hardware echo cancellation solutions it delivers unrivaled echo cancellation for multi-port open source VoIP systems. Digium's hardware echo cancellation solution provides 128ms of echo cancellation for each of the eight channels and is said to eliminate the need for the tuning and training sometimes required to control echo conditions in Asterisk-based voice systems. As such the solution delivers "toll quality," as per AT&T's (News - Alert) Voice Quality Assessment Labs. In fact, Digium claims the QoS solution outperforms AT&T's benchmark lab echo cancellers in all testing categories.

"The AEX800 exemplifies Digium's ongoing effort to provide the market with the absolute latest in VoIP innovation," said Mark Spencer (News - Alert), founder and CTO of Digium, in a press release. "As Asterisk continues to be deployed in businesses around the world, it is essential that its quality and reliability be second to none. Digium's high-performance echo cancellation solutions and PCI Express-based cards once again set the industry standard for performance and price."

For more information about the AEX800 and Digium's echo cancellation solutions, visit http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/hpec.php.

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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for Customer Interaction Solutions magazine and Assignment Editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.