Audiocodes celebrates 10th year with new architecture

San Jose, Calif-based packet voice infrastructure provider Audiocodes wrapped nine years worth of technology development into a comprehensive architecture called VoIPerfect and introduced it last week at the VON Conference in Boston. The company also announced a product and development partnership with 3Com to address the enterprise VoIP market and a single-board, compact PCI media gateway.

“The VoIPerfect architecture is recognition in a public way of what we have been working on for nine years,” said David Sullivan, vice president of sales for Audiocodes.

The software technology in VoIPerfect includes voice-over-packet DSP software, embedded media streaming, integrated PSTN signaling protocols, VoIP control protocols and provisioning and management engines. The component-based technologies include Audiocodes' own chip sets, blades and analog and digital media gateway platforms. The architecture will be generally available in October.

While Sullivan said Audiocodes will address any market where it can provide differentiated services, the 3Com relationship should provide a healthy enterprise market in which to sell. 3Com is using and will private label Audiocodes’ Mediant gateways, IPmedia media servers and MediaPack analog gateways in its IP telephony products, which includes the 3Com Networked Telephony Solution and the VCX V7000 IP telephony solution. These solutions are comprised of modular software components that perform call control, signaling, application creation, and media control in various LAN, WAN and wireless LAN environments.

The companies also will begin co-developing products, including adding IP media and SIP extensions.

Audiocodes also introduced a board-sized media gateway with a name bigger than its form factor. The TrunkPack-6310 STM-1/OC-3 compact PCI voice-over-packet communications board is a media gateway that supports an OC-3 standard PSTN interface also with packet interfaces. The TP-6310, for short, can be used as a building block for deploying high-density, high-availability voice-over-packet systems. It offers integrated voice and signaling gateway functions and supports various functions for streaming voice and FAX over IP.

“The 6310 is a fully-meshed media gateway on a single slot. It is aimed at the carrier market with high-density gateway requirements,” said Lior Aldema, vice president of marketing for Audiocodes.