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February 22, 2008
Amtelco XDS Telecom Boards Now Support Asterisk
By Richard Grigonis, Executive Editor, IP Communications Group
Telecom board makers have come and gone over the years, and Yours Truly has come to know practically all of them. The best are able to both size up existing markets and to recognize the leading edge of dramatic transformations in the communications industry as it evolves.
One of these companies, founded in 1976, is Amtelco (www.amtelco.com). They’ve been active in both call center and telephony innovations. They formed their XDS CTI Boards Division (www.xds.amtelco.com) in Madison, Wisconsin in 1980, which designs, manufactures, and markets telephony interface boards, conferencing boards, multi-chassis interconnection boards, BRI boards, and analog port boards in various formats (MVIP, SCSA, H.100 PCI, and H.110 CompactPCI (News - Alert)). Amtelco XDS also modifies these boards for special applications. Somewhere in the world right now, developers and specialized computer and telephony board manufacturers are using XDS technology in their many solutions for call centers, central offices, wireless switching platforms, and conferencing platforms.
Much of Amtelco’s success has stemmed from the work of Jim Becker, Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Director of XDS division. A veteran of Amtelco since 1985, he avoided the crowded world of voice boards and instead adroitly guided the company through the development of telephone interfaces and switching that just weren't available anywhere else: its two and four-wire E&M tie line boards, then to its PC switching resources, multi-chassis interconnection, BRI ISDN boards specifically for central offices, mammoth conferencing boards and then on to e-business software.
…And now to open source. Amtelco XDS has entered the open source world by announcing Asterisk (News - Alert) support for their Amtelco XDS Boards. Developers of Asterisk-based applications can now call upon Amtelco’s high density and highly reliable analog and digital telephony boards, such as the XDS High Density Loop Start Boards (with 12 or 24 ports), the XDS Station/Operator Boards (with 24 ports), the XDS E&M Boards (with 8 ports), and the XDS 4-Span and 8-Span E1/T1 Boards.
Amtelco XDS continues to offer its solid line of H.100 PCI and XDS H.110 CompactPCI boards, including the MC-3 Multi-Chassis Interconnect Boards, Enhanced Conference Boards, E&M Boards, High Density Station Boards, Loop Start Boards, and BRI Boards. Software drivers are available for running Amtelco hardware under Microsoft (News - Alert) Windows 2000/XP/NT, Linux, UnixWare, Solaris, Gentoo Linux 2006.0 (kernel 2.6), and Fedora Core 3 (kernel 2.6) operating systems.
Amtelco software driver packages are distributed free of charge to XDS customers, with open source code for the driver and all supporting applications.
Richard Grigonis is an internationally-known technology editor and writer. Prior to joining TMC (News - Alert) as Executive Editor of its IP Communications Group, he was the Editor-in-Chief of VON Magazine from its founding in 2003 to August 2006. He also served as the Chief Technical Editor of CMP Media’s Computer Telephony magazine, later called Communications Convergence (News - Alert), from its first year of operation in 1994 until 2003. In addition, he has written five books on computers and telecom (including the Computer Telephony Encyclopedia and Dictionary of IP Communications). To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
Transmission Level 1 (T1) | X | | A T-1 is connected between a Class 5 Central Office and Customer Premise Equipment switching system such as a PBX or ACD or data communications system such as a router, Frame Relay Access Device, etc....more |
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) | X | | CTI or computer telephony integration is the linking of computing systems with telephone systems. The caller is connected via telephone companies to a customer ACD-PBX. The ACD-PBX passes the teleph...more |
Internet Protocol (IP) | X | | IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data
in packets over the Internet. I...more |
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) | X | | ISDN BRI is digital transmission using 2B+D or two B channels of 64,000 BPS for voice, data and video services and one D channel of 16,000 BPS for signaling over one-pair of twisted-pair telephone lin...more |
(source: http://ip-telephony.tmcnet.com/topics/articles/21347-amtelco-xds-telecom-boards-now-support-asterisk.htm)
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