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Sangoma Technologies Now Shipping Industry-Proven A200 FXO/FXS Analog Telephony Support SystemTORONTO & FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- Jan. 25, 2006 -- New engineering meets global demand for FXO/FXS technologies Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSX VENTURE:STC) (www.sangoma.com), a leading provider of connectivity hardware and software products for VoIP, TDM voice, WANs and Internet infrastructure, is now shipping its newly-engineered A200 analog FXO/FXS PCI cards. Meeting growing global demand in the telephony space, the A200 and Sangoma's REMORA system together, comprise the FXO/FXS version of the company's Advanced Flexible Telecommunications (AFT) hardware designed for optimum support of analog voice traffic. "There is still a huge demand and need for FXO/FXS technologies in many countries around the world," says Sangoma Technologies President and CEO David Mandelstam. "Not all telephone systems require the latest VoIP technologies, but still require robust analog capabilities to maintain quality of service. We understand this need and are taking an industry lead by providing a price/performance solution that our competitors will now follow." The A200 solution supports any combination of up to 24 FXO or FXS connections. A single PCI slot host connection for all ports ensures common synchronous clocking for all channels. The base AFT architecture is shared with Sangoma's A101, A201 and A104 and soon to be released A108 cards ensuring common 3.3V/5V, high performance PCI compatibility. In keeping with the philosophy of providing complete flexibility to all customers, the A200 has field upgradeable firmware to take advantage of hardware and software improvements as they become available. In continuing to raise the bar by providing price performance for softPBX solutions, Sangoma is shipping an optional low density HW based echo canceller for the A200 series. The A200 consists of a REMORA daughterboard mounted on the AFT PCI card. The REMORA card has two sockets each of which can accept a FXO-2 or FXS-2 module. Each FXO-2 or FXS-2 module supports two FXO or FXS ports respectively. Up to five additional REMORA daughterboards can be mounted in empty slot positions beside the A200 assembly connected to the A200 by a backplane bus connector. "We have invested considerable resources to upgrade and enhance our analog cards and expect to win major contracts in the months ahead," adds Mandelstam. "The FXO or FXS cards are a new addition to our recently launched A104d that uses a common printed circuit board as a host to several daughterboard solutions including hardware-based echo cancellation, 1, 2, 4 or 8 port T1/E1, T3/E3, as well as the FXO/FXS technologies. Visit Sangoma Technologies - Internet Telephony Conference & Expo - Booth # 313 About Sangoma Technologies Corporation Founded in 1984, Sangoma develops and manufactures wide area network (WAN) communication hardware and software products, with an emphasis on the PC platform. The communications solutions, voice, data and video gateways support all popular WAN networks, line protocols and all standard PC operating systems and platforms including Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris. Sangoma Technologies Corporation is publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV: STC - News). Technical Specifications - From 2 to 24 FXO/FXS combinations. - Support for the Asterisk, Yate, OPAL PBX/IVR projects, as well as other Open Source and proprietary PBX/Switch/IVR/VoIP gateway applications. - Single synchronous PCI interface for all 16 FXO/FXS ports. - For RJ11 4/4 ports per REMORA card - Dimensions: 2U Form factor: 120mm x 55 mm for use in restricted chassis. - Short 2U compatible mounting clips available for installation in 2U rackmount servers. - 32 bit bus master DMA data exchanges across PCI interface at 132Mbytes/sec for minimum host processor intervention. - Autosense compatibility with 5v and 3.3v PCI busses. - Fully PCI 2.2 compliant, compatible with all commercially available motherboards, proper interrupt sharing. - Intelligent hardware: Downloadable Field Programmable Gate Array programming with multiple operating modes. Field upgradeable so new features related to voice and/or data can be added when they become available. - Power: 800mA peak, operational 300mA max at +3.3v or 5v. - Temperature range: 0 - 50C. - Optional sandwich DSP card on the A200d - G.168-2002 echo cancellation in hardware - 1024 taps/128ms tail per channel on all channel densities - DTMF decoding and tone recognition - Voice quality enhancement: Octasic music protection, acoustic echo control and adaptive noise reduction Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSX VENTURE:STC) |
