Aspire Net

With equal support for both traditional and IP telephony Aspire provides the flexibility to allow businesses to deploy whatever telephony solutions are best suited to their business. This could be 100% IP telephony with all phones connected to the LAN, or at the other extreme all phones can be connected to separate telephony cabling.

Recent studies show that IP telephony is now maturing with over 50% of corporate businesses now implementing degrees of IP telephony.

In a dynamic fast changing environment IP telephony may provide the better solution due to its flexibility of deployments. To add or move an extension, simply plug the phone into the nearest LAN socket. DHCP self configures the Aspire to recognise the new extension.

For many businesses, a mixture of both IP and TDM may be more appropriate. Typically traditional telephony will be used on the main site with outlying branches or remote office/workers connected by IP. Aspire is designed to handle all flavours of telephony equally efficiently. Whether you are connected directly to the Aspire system using normal cabling, or are a remote worker connected to the WAN via IP you still access the same features and services as your colleague on the main site.

Aspire is a distributed IP telephony solution supporting multiple nodes with voice communication on a peer to peer basis.

Aspire IP voice communication takes place seamlessly over the LAN or WAN with no routing via the central Aspire node. The only time the central Aspire node is involved is when a break out from IP to a legacy network such as ISDN or to a TDM phone is required. At that point signal conversion is required. With IP phones mapping only to an IP address no additional hardware such as fixed extension ports/ IP channels are required. The DHCP server carries out the IP address management.

With each node supporting up to 512 ports Aspire distributed networking solutions can build on a modular basis into a network of thousands of users. This makes Aspire the ideal solution for todays evolving businesses that are moving to new organisational models that do not rely on centralising large groups of staff. Changing work patterns are also reinforcing these trends towards devolved networks of workers - virtual offices, remote working, home working, tied together by a common data and voice infrastructure.

Using either H.323 or the AspireNet Voice Architecture IP voice networks can be built up providing feature transparency tailored to your business requirements. Centralised operator, centralised voice mail and auto attendant allow resource sharing across the network, maximising investment and minimising spend.

Even Call Centres can be distributed allowing remotely located staff to be part of a main call centre. Telephony efficiency is aided by networked operator consoles that can be located anywhere on the WAN.

Reliability is enhanced using 173 MIPs RISC processors and the embedded Nucleas real time, multi threading operating system. Aspire telephony applications sit on top of this industrial strength platform.

Voice quality is on ongoing problem within IP networks. Aspire phones can be configured to give the preferred level of voice quality. G711, G729 and G723 compression standards are all supported. Open standards means that AspireNet supports any type of QoS router for prioritising IP traffic.

Resilience and fall back options, vital in an IP network are also designed into AspireNet. Each Aspire IP phone can register onto two Aspire nodes. If an Aspire Voice Module goes down then the Aspirephones will communicate via the second Aspire across the WAN. If the LAN fails each Aspire IP phone can switch over to PSTN/TDM mode making use of legacy network resources such as ISDN or the PSTN. Supporting any combination of IP or legacy phones Aspire networks can be tailored to the level of telephony resilience required.