company that was founded in 1978 . it is a designer developer and manufacturer specialising in enabling technology for telephony and communication products that are used in fixed line pstn wireless and voip networks . aculab s products are sold worldwide through its direct sales organisation and also via a network of distributors and resellers . aculab s international headquarters and r & d facilities are located in milton keynes uk with important branch offices in norwood massachusetts usa and munich germany . aculab type private industry telecommunication founded 1978 founder alan pound headquarters milton keynes united kingdom website www.aculab.com contents 1 brief company history 2 products 2.1 prosody x 2.2 prosody s 2.3 groomerii 2.4 applianx 2.5 aculab cloud 2.6 aculab rapide 3 references 4 external links brief company history edit in 1978 aculab was a design consultancy involved in the music industry . soon after the first microprocessors were introduced it began to design and manufacture intelligent interfaces and controllers for computer peripherals . in 1988 aculab turned to building analogue speech processing solutions for a number of clients such as british telecom . it was in 1991 that aculab began to ship the first e1 interface cards for the uk and german markets . these pc isa form factor cards enabled pc based speech processing products to be connected to digital pstn networks . the expansion of its product capabilities to include the physical interfaces and telecommunications protocols isdn cas and ss7 needed to reach a broader worldwide market helped to establish aculab as one of the pioneers of the computer telephony industry . 1 later in 1997 aculab introduced its own isa speech processing board the first of its portfolio of dsp based voice boards . and it was in 1998 that aculab introduced a pci product the first combined trunk card and voice board prosody pci . it was novel for its time delivering up to 240 speech channels and 4 e1 t1 trunk interfaces on a single card at a time when the standard was 24 to 30 channels . 1 a prosody cpci compactpci version followed in 2000 . during 1993 aculab introduced groomer a protocol converter that enabled interconnection between disparate telephone networks running incompatible protocols . in 2002 this product was relaunched as groomerii a signalling and media gateway that can be used for connection between equipment and applications deployed in tdm and ip networks . in 2003 aculab introduced prosody s a host media processing hmp alternative to dsp based voice boards for ip only solutions . 2 the applianx range of gateways was launched by aculab in 2007 . 3 aculab cloud was launched in 2011 and is a cloud based telephony service platform . it allows a wide range of voice applications to be built using high level apis in general purpose programming languages such as java c and python . products edit the prosody product range includes prosody x dsp boards and prosody s hmp software . these are enabling technologies for developing a variety of voice fax and signalling products . aculab s portfolio of signalling and media gateways includes groomerii and the applianx range . prosody x edit these dsp based media processing boards offer a range of functions and technologies including voip sip fax conferencing and narrow and wideband hd voice codecs . they also offer optional e1 t1 interfaces with cas isdn and ss7 signalling and protocol support . prosody x variants can also be used with aculab s protocol stacks to connect to ss7 networks for isup and non call related tcap signalling applications . prosody s edit prosody s is an ip based software only host media processing hmp product that offers a range of media server technologies including voip sip t. 38 fax conferencing and narrow and wideband hd voice codecs under a software licence . groomerii edit groomerii is a signalling and media gateway primarily intended for the service provider market . the gateway enables interworking between sip based networks applications and entities and legacy tdm based networks and pbxs running cas isdn or ss7 c7 protocols . applianx edit the applianx ip gateway is a plug and play gateway for interoperability between sip based networks and entities tdm based pbxs and the pstn . the gateway includes sip qsig and dpnss interworking functionality with extensive supplementary services support which capability addresses the gateway needs of the pbx ip pbx enterprise network market in the uk with dpnss and elsewhere with qsig . 4 aculab cloud edit aculab cloud is a telephony platform as a service that presents the user with java python c . net and restful apis enabling interactive voice fax and messaging applications to be written in high level general purpose programming languages . developers can use aculab cloud to add telephony functions to their business applications or create telephony services or applications such as ivr ; conferencing ; voicemail ; broadcast fax ; voice messaging services ; pbxs ; predictive diallers ; and more 1 aculab rapide edit aculab rapide is a telephony media resource server presenting a range of programmable software based telephony resources in a 1u platform for the rapid application development of telecommunications solutions . it presents simple telephony apis written in high level general purpose programming languages ms.net c c vb f python and java . 5 references edit a b pulver jeff december 2006 . von pioneers . von magazine pp 14 18 . retrieved 2009 11 17 . http www.speechtechmag.com articles news industry news aculab announces development of host media processing resource 30273 . aspx aculab launches applian press release . speech technology magazine . march 20 2007 . retrieved 2009 11 18 . viscusi stefania september 15 2008 . aculab brings hope to enterprises with the applianx dpnss to q.sig gateway . tmc website voip developer channel . retrieved 2009 11 18 . http blog.tadsummit.com 2014 10 10 introducing aculab external links edit aculab company website aculab cloud website aculab blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aculab & oldid 698544091 categories computer telephony integrationtelecommunications equipment vendorsvoip companies of the united kingdomtechnology companies established in 1978 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 january 2016 at 19 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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