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Product Information

Comma iTA (Intelligent Telephony Adapter) - Is a flexible and comprehensive telephony interface solution for:  

• Asterisk based PBX
• Contact Centre and
• Gateway installations

Overview

• Asterisk telephony applications, built on commodity computer servers, couple with Comma iTA’s via a standard Ethernet interface and an efficient TDM over Packet transfer protocol.
• The Asterisk server thus becomes a pure network appliance.
• Provides dedicated voice processing hardware thus off-loading critical, channel related processing from the host server, while providing integration to legacy telecom infrastructure.
• Supports the deployment of large, feature-rich solutions over a distributed and scalable architecture.
• It is possible to combine multiple iTAs and/or multiple servers in a single system.

Benefits

• Cost effective – compared to similar PCI-based adapters or external Gateway devices
• Seamless expansion - by connecting additional Comma iTA devices to LAN.
• Distributed deployments – over Ethernet LAN infrastructure & TDMoIP or TDMoE transport.
• Robust design – hardware includes power cross and secondary surge protection devices.
• Hot swap – reduce platform down time. Replacing Comma iTA’s is quick and painless as Comma iTA firmware and configuration is stored on the server only. No need to replace PCI cards!

Features

• All PSTN telco interfaces supported, PRI, BRI, FXO, FXS, in a 1U rack mount enclosure
• High quality audio:
  • hardware based echo cancellation
  • timing synchronisation (fax & modem support), no slips
  • Near carrier grade FXS interfaces (3km, REN3)
• Simplfied maintenance: Device discovery and boot over LAN network
• Ethernet interconnect for flexible and scale-able deployment
• Surge protection: Robust & reliable against power surges & lightning strikes with secondary protection devices within hardware
• ICASA certification

Administration

• Management: Comma Proxy Manager (CPM) resides on Asterisk host and manages one or more attached Comma iTA’s.
• Configuration: Configuration files and firmware image reside on Asterisk server and are sent to Comma on startup.
• Status: Status is monitored by CPM and status changes are logged.
• Field Upgrade: Firmware upgrade by changing image on host server and configuration file. Programmable Hardware upgrade by download and upgrade over network.