January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Host media processing – revisited Faye McClenahan – Aculab

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Agenda What is host media processing (HMP)? HMP in a mixed TDM/IP environment The choice between DSP-based and host-based media processing The future of HMP Summary

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida What is HMP? Host media processing – performs all the tasks traditionally performed on a DSP

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Background Processor power Time

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida What is HMP? HMP is now viable Faster roll out of features Riding the consumer wave rather than the specialist wave

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Why HMP? Key advantage – it’s software-based –Flexibility and speed of deployment –Channel counts –No hardware Cost efficiencies New application opportunities

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida What applications can be based on HMP? All traditional applications –Voic , IVR, conferencing, broadcast, contact centre, etc. New IP-centric applications –Free from TDM and hardware constraints

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida What to look for in an HMP product High channel counts per standard processor Simple pricing and licensing structure Choice of operating system Compliance with IETF standards Not restricted to a particular make of processor

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida What to look for in an HMP product Protocol support – SIP, H.323 Wide portfolio of codec support – iLBC, G.711, G.729AB, G.726, G.728, GSM-FR, etc Choice of operating system Comprehensive set of media processing resources Security – Secure RTP, TLS, SIPS, NAT traversal

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Agenda What is host media processing (HMP)? HMP in a mixed TDM/IP environment The choice between DSP-based and host-based media processing The future of HMP Summary

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida HMP in a mixed TDM/IP environment Best suited to pure IP environments –Adoption of VoIP accelerating fast –Proliferation of VoIP Skype Vonage Jahjah Wireless Internet

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida HMP in a mixed TDM/IP environment How should your HMP-based solution connect to the TDM network? –Add a TDM telephony card –Gateway Key considerations –What are the implications for my solution? –Will it allow me to take full advantage of the benefits of HMP? –What flexibility will it afford me?

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida TDM card

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida TDM card

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Gateway

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida IP enabling existing applications

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Agenda What is host media processing (HMP)? HMP in a mixed TDM/IP environment The choice between DSP-based and host-based media processing The future of HMP Summary

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Deployment choice – application

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Deployment choice – application HMPDSP IVR, fax, conferencing, video, DTMF, call progress, transcoding SIP, H.323, RTP, Secure RTP, RTCP Packet loss concealment, jitter buffer G.711, G.723, G.726, G.728, G.729AB, GSM-FR, GSM EFR, MS-GSM, AMR-NB, EVRC, SMV, iLBC, G.722.2, VMR-WB SIPS, symmetric RTP, STUN, NAT traversal 600 per Dual-core Intel Xeon server 600 channels per PCI slot

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Deployment choice – server

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Agenda What is host media processing (HMP)? HMP in a mixed TDM/IP environment The choice between DSP-based and host-based media processing The future of HMP Summary

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida The future of HMP Performance Resilience Distributed systems Hyperconferencing –Wideband and stereo codecs –3D voice –Video Greater flexibility – architecture

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Resilience 1.Link protection 2.Server protection 3.Control application protection

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Distributed architecture Software, distributed amongst several servers, can act as one solution Contact centre solution

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Questions

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Summary HMP is viable –Flexibility –Cost efficiencies For today’s mixed TDM/IP market –Use a gateway and leverage the advantages an HMP-based solution can bring –Integrate into existing card-based solutions Hardware versus software – it is a deployment choice The future holds some exciting developments for host-based media processing

January 23-26, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Thank you Booth 1217