Dialogic® PowerMedia™ XMS

PowerMedia XMS

PowerMedia XMS Energizes Application Delivery by Boosting Performance

  • State of the art mixing of media-rich communications
  • Software providing a seamless transition to virtualization and cloud delivery
  • Telco hardened scalability

PowerMedia XMS elevates what developers can create for their customers, from virtually any development environment, connecting to virtually any type of communication endpoint.

GetReadyWebRTC_XMS2

1 Future capability planned for general availability in 2013.

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PowerMedia XMS Overview

PowerMedia XMS is a powerful next-generation software media server that enables standards-based, real-time multimedia communications solutions for mobile and broadband environments. PowerMedia XMS is controlled by the business logic of applications deployed on SIP application servers and web application servers to execute high density real-time multimedia communication functions including inbound and outbound session/call control, audio/video play and record, transcoding, transrating, transizing of video streams, multimedia conference mixing, content streaming, and a wide range of advanced supporting functions for communication sessions.  

PowerMedia XMS Applications

PowerMedia XMS can be used to build a wide variety of real-time multimedia processing solutions. These solutions can range from traditional IVR, voice messaging, notification systems and conferencing, to innovative video conferencing and social interaction applications such as delivering internet content into a video conference in real time.

 

 

Features

Benefits

Support for WebRTC client technology in HTML5 browsers via video and audio media mixing, signaling, and NAT/firewall traversal standards as defined by the IETF and WC3 for WebRTC1

 Facilitates the development and deployment of rich communication apps and services across Web, VoIP/SIP and PSTN networks to virtually all connected endpoints1

Up to 2,000 sessions of high performance software media processing with excellent call rates, voice quality PESQ scores, and low media latency on common datacenter server infrastructure.

Supports the development and deployment of demanding service provider applications such as conferencing, messaging and IVR services without the need for specialized hardware.

Advanced multimedia processing functionality, including HD Voice and real-time video; video transcoding, transrating and transizing up to HD720p resolution

Allows solution providers to attract new users and increase target revenue by offering multimedia solutions with a high user Quality of Experience (QoE)

RESTful interface for multimedia processing and SIP call control via HTTP control messages

Simplifies development for programmers who do not have  an in-depth familiarity with traditional telecommunications interfaces

MSML (RFC 5707) interface for multimedia control protocol support

Enables the delivery of standards-based solutions in IMS and other SIP-based environments
JSR 309 connector software, compliant with the Java Community Process specification for a protocol agnostic API that provides media server control Allows development of real-time multimedia applications and services on standard Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) converged (SIP & HTTP) application servers, leveraging application redundancy and high availability capabilities of J2EE servers 
NetAnn and VXML interfaces Provides standards-based control interfaces for announcements, IVR and speech enabled applications 

Virtualization (VMware ESXI 5.x and KVM) support

Promotes lower CAPEX, and deployment of communications solutions on virtual machines in private and service provider datacenters

User-friendly OA&M that includes a web-based GUI and HTTP RESTful interface for real-time control and monitoring

Helps reduce deployment costs and OPEX by enabling the quick resolution of  operational issues

Simple yet flexible licensing model that allows scaling from ten ports to thousands of ports per server by software upgrade

Can save CAPEX by allowing solutions to be scaled easily as demand grows

1 Future capability planned for general availability in 2013.

Technical
Specifications

 Session Capacity Typical media sessions per server (specific per server results will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to deployment conditions, configurations and equipment):

  • Audio — Up to 2000 sessions of G.711 or 1000 sessions with full-duplex (RTP-RTP) transcoding

  • Video — Up to 450 unidirectional sessions per server (also includes audio transcoding), depending on system capacity, codec, resolution, and frame rate

 Signaling, Protocol, & Control Interfaces

  Signaling and Session Protocols

 

 

 

  • SIP (RFC3261)
  • HTTP WebRTC Interface1
  • RTSP client support for streaming multimedia content from RTSP servers
  • MRCPv2 for connection to speech servers for ASR/TTS - see “Third Party MRCP Speech Vendor Capability” below
 Media Protocols
  • IPv4
  • RTP, RTCP, RTCP-XR, RTCP-HR
  • DTLS/SRTP1
  • ICE Lite1, ICE1 
 Remote Application Interfaces
  • RESTful API - HTTP-based RESTful web services interface for controlling media processing and SIP signaling operations
  • MSML (RFC5707) – Media Server Markup Language, an XML-based media control API
  • JSR 309 Connector – A Java Community Process Java API software connector to control external servers running PowerMedia XMS
  • VXML - A standard XML interface for specifying interactive voice dialogs for IVR or speech enabled applications.
  • NetAnn (RFC4240) – Basic Network Media Services with SIP for announcements, dialogs, and simple conferences

 Media and Coders

  Audio

  
  • Voice & HD Voice play/record
  • Tone generation/detection (DTMF, RFC2833/RFC4733)
  • Call progress analysis
  • Positive Voice Detection (PVD) and Positive Answering Machine Detection (PAMD) for outbound calling scenarios

  Audio Codecs
  • Narrowband codecs: G.711u/a, G.723, G.726, G.729a, G.729b, AMR-NB
  • Wideband codecs: G.722, AMR-WB (G.722.2) – see “Obtaining Third Party Licensing” below
  • WebRTC codecs1: Opus1, iLBC1, iSAC1 
  • Voice activity detection, silence suppression, comfort noise generation
  Audio Conferencing
  • N-way (including HD Voice) audio mixing
  • Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
  • Per party gain/volume control
  • Active talker detection
  • DTMF clamping
  • Coach-pupil (whisper) mode
  • Loudest N-party mixing
  • Privileged party mixing
  • Echo cancellation
  Video
  • Play/record
  • Video transcoding, transrating, and transizing
  • Video overlays (text and image overlay with scrolling)
  Video Codecs
  • H.264 Baseline, Main1 & High1 Profiles
  • VP81
  • MPEG 4 Baseline Profile
  • H.263, H.263+, H.263++ Baseline Profile
  • Image sizes: HD720p, 4CIF, VGA, CIF, QVGA, QCIF
  • Frame rates: Up to 30 FPS
  • Bit rates: Up to 2Mbps
  • Video Fast Update (VFU): Configurable responses to I-Frame Update requests
  Media Handling
  • File operations: HTTP1.1, HTTPS, and/or NFS; RTSP/RTP
  • Audio File Formats: WAV(8k & 16k), PCM(8k & 16k), .aud XMS file format
  • Multimedia File Formats: .3gp via .vid/.aud
Virtualization
  • VMWare ESXi 5.x
  • Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
  • Oracle VM1
System Management
  • Web GUI
  • Real-time monitoring and management via HTTP RESTful control interface
  • Remotely managed tracing and logging
Hardware Support and Minimum System Requirements
  • Hardware: Intel Architecture-based server
  • Operating System (64-bit OS):
       CentOS Release 6.2 ISO installation OR
       RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.2
       Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.2
  • Processor: Intel Dual 545x or greater
  • Ethernet: Dual 1000Base-TX (RJ-45)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM minimum
  • Storage: 60 GB HD minimum

Third Party MRCP Speech Vendor Compatability
  • Lumenvox (ASR & TTS)
  • Nuance (ASR & TTS)
  • Vestec (ASR)
Obtaining Third-Party Licenses

Using the AMR-WB resource in connection with a Dialogic® product described herein does not grant the right to practice the AMR-WB standard. To seek a patent license agreement to practice the standard, contact (as of January 2013) the VoiceAge Corporation at http://www.voiceage.com/licensing.php

1 Future capability planned for general availability in 2013.

Manuals

Data Sheet

  • Dialogic PowerMedia Extended Media Server

    Dialogic® PowerMedia™ Extended Media Server (PowerMedia XMS) energizes application delivery by boosting performance with state of the art mixing of media-rich communications; software providing a seamless transition to virtualization and cloud delivery and telco hardened scalability.

Technology Brief

  • Carrier Class Self-Service Solutions with Oracle Communications Converged Application Server and Dialogic® PowerMedia™ Extended Media Server

    Delivering carrier class business communications services, such as Interactive Voice Response (IVR), for customer self-service and conferencing applications have become a profitable opportunity for service providers. Value added business communication services have proven to be a natural portfolio fit for service providers delivering core communications bandwidth and wide area networking services to large commercial accounts and government agencies. Thanks to the combined solution set of the Oracle Communications Converged Application Server paired with Dialogic® PowerMedia™ Extended Media Server (PowerMedia XMS), carriers and service providers can introduce value-added communication services, such as IVR self-service and conferencing solutions, to their portfolio in a cost effective and efficient manner.

White Paper

  • Developing and Deploying Next Generation
  • The Growing Importance of HD Voice

    This white paper provides an introduction to HD Voice and discusses its current adoption rate and future potential, including use case examples which paint a picture that HD Voice upgrades to certain network and enterprise infrastructure will be seen as important, and perhaps as a necessity to many.

  • IP Packet Exchange - Interconnecting the IP User Experience

    As the industry moves more towards full-scale IP networks, the issue of interconnecting diverse networks and different service providers - each with its own IP network(s) - becomes more important to resolve in order to support the seamless delivery of next generation services. There will be concerns for security and end-to-end quality of service (QoS) to be addressed to make sure the different “moving parts” that make up these services are delivered to the customer in the expected manner.  It will be important to set up the mechanism by which all the participants in the service delivery supply chain are compensated for the value they provide to the overall end-to-end service.

    The GSMA IP eXchange (IPX) provides a visionary approach to the challenges fixed and mobile service providers have with interworking IP-based services and networks. It provides multiple, service-aware connectivity models that provide QoS as well as cost efficient, optimal routing of IP traffic. The same platform can be extended to bridge the gap between IP and legacy TDM networks.

Use the Purchase page linked below to find partners to purchase Dialogic products. The order codes below are for your reference when making a purchase.

Purchase

ProductOrder CodeDescription
XMS-MServer-10G01-120-01PowerMedia XMS license for 10 Ports of Voice Media Server
XMS-HDAudio-10G04-120-01PowerMedia XMS license for 10 ports of G.722, AMR-WB
XMS-LBRAudio-10G03-120-01PowerMedia XMS license for 10 ports of G.723, G.729
XMS-AMRAudio-10G05-120-01PowerMedia XMS license for 10 ports of AMR-NB
XMS-MRCPSpeech-10G07-120-01PowerMedia XMS license for 10 ports of MRCP Speech Server connectivity
XMS-Adv-Video-10G02-120-01PowerMedia XMS license for 10 ports of Advanced video (up to CIF)
XMS-HighResVideo-10G06-120-01PowerMedia XMS license for 10 ports High Resolution Video (up to VGA/720p)
XMS-JSR309G08-120-01PowerMedia XMS license to enable JSR309 (per server)