Digium Transcoder Cards

Asterisk with Digium G.729a licensing, is capable of transforming the G.729a codec into other codecs for the purpose of call origination or termination, bridging disparate calls, or VoIP to TDM connectivity. These transformations in software are very expensive, in terms of MIPS, and require a substantial amount of CPU time to accomplish. The Digium Transcoder cards not only relieves the CPU of this duty, freeing it up to handle other tasks or to complete additional call processing; but also provides Asterisk with the capability of bridging G.723.1 (5.3kbit) compressed audio into other formats, a capability not previously possible.