Siltek Telecoms has signed an agreement with UK-based Aculab to distribute its computer telephony product portfolio.
Michael Aitken, managing director of Siltek Telecoms, explains how the agreement encompasses the entire Aculab range including the Prosody DSP resource card, digital access cards, and the Aculab MC3 card.
"Aculab is a global designer and manufacturer of computer telephony solutions and components. The partnership presents the ideal opportunity to introduce its range of products to the local market," says Aitken.
Chris Gravett, sales and marketing director at Aculab expressed his delight on signing the agreement. 'Siltek Telecoms are the leader in IT distribution in sub Saharan Africa, by partnering with Siltek we can assure our customers of the quality of service and support they come to expect with Aculab's high quality products".
Products in the Aculab range include the Prosody DSP resource card, which explains Aitken, provides developers with high-density processing, for basic speech, conferencing, TTS, ASR and fax, in an extremely compact and flexible form. A single Prosody card, occupying a single slot, can deliver 240 channels of DSP processing. Prosody is available in ISA, PCI and cPCI card formats. Both PCI and cPCI cards can provide up to 120 E1/T1 network access links.
Key benefits of Aculab's digital network access card products stem from the breadth of product and extensive worldwide protocol coverage. The Aculab generic API has been evolved consistently across all of the product line making it easier for applications to be migrated to both different protocols and newer hardware. The application doesn't even need to know which protocol is actually running on the access card, to assist portability. The products have been designed to offer either digital access alone, or in many cases combined with speech resources. Aculab's VoIP gateway is the latest addition to the range.
Aculab has also developed an MC3 card to help developers and integrators address the demand for a quality CT product based in a single PC chassis, but with a larger capacity system. MC3 is a standard, developed within the MVIP community, using the bit -carrying capacity of ATM without the associated overheads.
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Siltek Telecoms
Siltek Telecoms is a specialist telecommunications distributor within the Siltek Technology Supply Chain Group, and has agreements with some of the world's leading vendors. It is the master distributor for the AVAYA range of voice products and Active Voice Corporation's portfolio of PC-based voice processing systems and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) solutions. Controlled by Kunene Technology Ltd, Siltek Telecoms is committed to becoming the supplier of choice for telecommunications VARS and independent resellers.
Siltek Limited
Siltek Limited is the leader in the Technology Supply Chain with projected turnover of R3-billion in the year to end-June 2000. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Siltek comprises several complementary operating divisions, each of which is a dominant player in its niche area.
Aculab
Through a customer-focused approach to development, Aculab has produced the best-of-its-class computer telephony (CT) product portfolio that satisfies the speech resource and global digital connectivity requirements of developers and system integrators. CT applications utilising Aculab's components can handle real-time telephony, through an extensive range of resources and signalling systems.
The evolution of Aculab's generic API, to provide a consistent programming interface, reduces the integration time of a combination of technologies including Text-To-Speech (TTS), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), conferencing and fax. Collectively through supporting a broad range of industry standards and operating systems, Aculab can provide the products needed when quality and performance cannot be compromised.
Aculab's head office is located in Milton Keynes, UK with offices in North America, Germany and Australia. Website: www.aculab.com