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Digium PBX Phone System for YDL San Francisco, California -- 13 August 2002 -- Digium, provider of Linux-based Open Source PBX/IVR software/hardware and services, announces from LinuxWorld availability of the WildCard series of interface cards for Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC. The WildCards are half-length PCI cards that fit into a desktop or rackmount computer, providing a telephony interface to either analog or digital lines. WildCards support industry standard telephony and data protocols, including both RBS and Primary Rate ISDN (PRI) protocol families for voice and PPP, Cisco HDLC, and Frame Relay data modes. WildCards are fully supported by the Asterisk* Open Source PBX and can drive both line-side and trunk-side interfaces, including call features. In addition to conventional telephony, Asterisk with the Wildcard, provides VoIP and TDMoE (TDM over Ethernet) services for greater efficiency and flexibility. Asterisk, a full featured PBX/IVR platform, offers many of the legacy PBX features users are familiar with on higher end systems such as, Three Way Calling, Conferencing and Caller ID. In addition, the voice mail module allows custom configurations for many voice response applications. "We approached Terra Soft because they offer a unique, integrated solution on an important platform. We see the future of our market as a combination of standard consumer boxes with PCI cards and embedded appliances. The PowerPC chip is designed for embedded systems and YDL offers seamless code migration from desktop to set-top. It's a natural evolution," states Mark Spencer, Digium President. Digium demonstrated that a 400MHz G4 running YDL beat a 450MHz PIII in 6 out of 9 processing and data handling tests, some 2-to-1. An older Apple computer, YDL, and Digium's WildCard offer an inexpensive entry to a digital phone system. Kai Staats, Terra Soft CEO offers, "This is such a unique solution, simple and elegant. We hope to see PowerPC, YDL, and the WildCard adopted as a standard for what is really exciting --inexpensive, reliable, open-source phone systems that do not require a service contract." Digium's WildCard is available now from the Terra Soft online Store. Visit with both sales persons and developers at Digium's Booth R17 at LinuxWorld, August 13-15, in San Francisco, where an Apple G4 running YDL will be on display. About Digium Digium is an engineering-driven firm dedicated to the development of innovative converged telecommunications solutions. Digium has developed the Open Source Asterisk Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) software, a modular telephony server platform which supports both traditional analog and digital telephony equipment and Voice over IP. For more information, visit: www.digium.com About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. is a leading developer of innovative technologies and provider of integrated HPC solutions for PowerPC. Yellow Dog Linux, the flagship product, has boosted viability of Linux on PowerPC microprocessors for a variety of platforms. Black Lab is an HPC node creation and management suite. For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com
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