July 30, 2012 -- Octasic Inc. today announced that its Vocallo Media Gateway (MGW) multicore DSP platform has been selected by Hitachi for use in its hybrid IP-PBX NetTower CX-01 targeted at large and medium-sized enterprises. Using Octasic's Vocallo MGW, Hitachi was able to build the NetTower CX-01 to provide enterprise customers the option to seamlessly combine both corporate data networks and TDM voice networks.

The NetTower CX-01 offers an IP-PBX that meets current enterprise requirements in reliability and flexible scalability. Software upgrades can add or improve features and they provide a flexible architecture to the NetTower CX-01, making it easily adaptable to changes in market demands. Support for fixed mobile convergence (FMC) features and smartphones enables the NetTower CX-01 to provide mobile phone users added convenience in their day-to-day work.

Hitachi has integrated Octasic's multicore processor into NetTower CX-01 for voice media processing in VoIP. Octasic also provides the complete software for its processor and acts as a single-source vendor to Hitachi.

The Vocallo MGW software package includes voice processing with support for a wide range of wideband codecs such as AMR-WB (G.722.2), G.722, G.722.1, G.729.1, and SILK. Video-conferencing capabilities can be added to the same platform in a cost-effective manner through a software upgrade. Vocallo MGW's video solutions support all popular codecs including H.263, MPEG-4, and H.264.

Posted by: John Miklosz