Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:23:00 +0000 From: "Stephen Buechler" <stephenb@phylon.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Free BSD porting & ISP testing of new call concentrator product Message-ID: <199709081824.MAA05583@phylon.com>
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Hello, We are currently seeking an ISP or developer that has an interest in porting drivers for our product to the FreeBSD environment. This product is a high performance, DSP-based multi-channel PCI adapter designed to support a wide variety of communications applications under DOS and Windows NT environments. After drivers have been completed, we will also be seeking ISP's that wish to use this product in their service. The product is called the Chameleon and it provides 48/60 channel processors on a single PCI card, which requires less than 25 watts of total power. The on-board H-MVIP/SCSA interfaces provide communications with a broad range of telephony products, such as PRI cards, etc. It supports V.34+ and is software upgradeable to 56K standards. Each DSP is configured on-the-fly by an on-board Intel i-960 processor, to whatever is required by an incoming call. If ISDN is required, then a DSP is configured to accept an ISDN call. If an analog call comes in, a DSP is configured to accept that type of call. The above mentioned "channels" can provide host all analog calls, all ISDN calls, or a mix of both, depending on what is required at that moment. The density of this product allows for multiple cards to be placed in a simple Windows NT server, requiring far less space than existing rack mounted modem solutions. Per port costs for this product will be roughly 1/4 that of competing products, meaning a tremendous cost savings for ISP's. Once FreeBSD support has been completed, we hope to work with ISP's to test this product and get feedback on its design and performance. Our goal is to build a product that is both cost effective & high performance, and ISP feedback and resources would be very valuable to us in achieving this. If you are interested in helping us with this product, by becoming a field test site for the Chameleon, we can provide the hardware to you. To start with, we would need information on how your ISP network is currently constructed and how our product would integrate with that network. At the end of this field test, we expect to have a product that is fine tuned for the ISP market and hope that you consider using it, as opposed to the expensive rack-mount systems that you probably currently deploy in your network. If you are interested in working with us to port our drivers to FreeBSD, we could provide you with C language interface drivers for the Chameleon board. Currently the Chameleon product has DOS and Windows NT drivers. Once ported, we could make those drivers available to others that wish to use this product. If your are interested in the Chameleon product and would be interested in testing it with us or porting its drivers to FreeBSD, please contact me at "stephenb@phylon.com". Please provide me some information on your company and network setup. If your are intested in the seeing what the hardware looks like and getting some detailed data-sheet information, please check our website at "http://www.phylon.com". You can look at "Server Products" and view either the On-line HTML datasheet for the Chameleon or download a PDF version of it. We plan to conduct our field trial with 4 or 5 ISP's. If we select you as one of those trial ISP's, I will get back to you with more information. Sincerely, Stephen Buechler PC Communications Marketing Phylon Communications, Inc. 44736 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 PHONE: (510) 656-2606 FAX: (510) 656-0902 EMAIL: stephenb@phylon.com WEBSITE: http://www.phylon.com
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