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Aculab is a privately held, UK-based limited 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. == Brief company history == 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. 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.〔 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.〔http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/News/Industry-News/Aculab-Announces-Development-of-Host-Media-Processing-Resource--30273.aspx〕 The ApplianX range of gateways was launched by Aculab in 2007. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aculab」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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