Dialogic® PowerMedia™ Extended Media Server (PowerMedia XMS) is a powerful software media server that enables standards-based, real-time multimedia communications solutions for mobile and broadband environments.
PowerMedia XMS can help reduce development and operational costs by offering standards-based media control interfaces and management capabilities that can be deployed in the cloud or in traditional environments, such as the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).
PowerMedia XMS is built on robust, feature-rich, and award-winning host media processing technology that has been developed by Dialogic and deployed by customers worldwide for more than a decade.
Overview
PowerMedia XMS offers a rich variety of advanced media processing functions, including audio and video play/record and content streaming, and can be used to build a wide variety of real-time multimedia processing solutions. These solutions can range from traditional voice messaging and conferencing to innovative video conferencing and social interaction applications, such as delivering internet content into a video conference in real time using the RTSP protocol.
Deployment Environments
PowerMedia XMS can be deployed on premise or in the cloud, allowing enterprise and service provider customers to benefit from cloud deployment. The control interfaces offered with XMS provide developers with the following choices of deployment environments:
Traditional SIP — A SIP Application Server (AS) controls XMS using the MSML control interface (RFC 5707) to enable deployment as an IMS Media Resource Function (MRF)
Innovative Web 2.0 and Cloud — A web application written in an appropriate language (Python, JavaScript, etc.) can control XMS using an HTTP RESTful interface. Developers can use SIP call processing functionality built into XMS or a third-party call control model where SIP signaling is handled by an AS.
Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
PowerMedia XMS provides powerful and user-friendly OA&M functionality, and can generally be installed and configured for initial use in 30 minutes or less. In order to reduce operational costs when deploying solutions, XMS can be managed remotely through a web-based operator console and an HTTP RESTful interface. XMS also supports remote real-time monitoring, alarms, logging, and tracing.
Licensing
The simple, flexible, and scalable licensing model of PowerMedia XMS lets customers pay only for the functionality they need when they need it. XMS-based solutions can be scaled from ten to thousands of ports by simple software upgrade.
Features
Benefits
Advanced multimedia processing functionality, including HD voice and video
Allows solution providers to attract new users and increase target revenue by offering multimedia solutions with a high user Quality of Experience (QoE)
Multimedia processing and SIP call control via the HTTP RESTful control interface
Simplifies development for programmers who do not have an in-depth familiarity with traditional telecommunications interfaces
Validated on the Amazon EC2 cloud*
Can save OPEX by deploying communications solutions in the cloud
MSML support
Enables the delivery of solutions in IMS and other SIP-based environments
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
Technical Specifications
Audio
Voice play/record, tone generation/detection (DTMF, RFC2833), and call progress analysis
Positive Voice Detection (PVD) and Positive Answering Machine Detection (PAMD) for outbound calling scenarios
Audio conferencing with active talker detection, DTMF clamping; coach-pupil mode and per party gain/volume control
Video conferencing with 1, 4, 6, 9 image tiling, custom layouts, attendee captions via dynamic overlays, static image or video clip display, and conference recording
Video Codecs
H.263, H.263+, H.263++ Baseline Profile
MPEG 4, H.264 Baseline Profile
Image size: VGA, CIF, QCIF
Frame rate: Up to 30 FPS
Bit rate: Up to 768 kbps
Video Fast Update (VFU): Configurable dynamic responses to I-Frame Update requests from clients
File container: WAV
File operations: HTTP and/or NFS, RTSP/RTP
Signaling, Media, and Control Interfaces
IPv4
RTP, RTCP
HTTP-based RESTful web services interface for controlling media processing and SIP signaling operations
MSML (RFC 5707) for media control
RTSP client support for streaming multimedia content from RTSP servers
Capacity
Typical media sessions per server:
Audio — Up to 2000 sessions of G.711 or 1000 sessions with transcoding
Video transcoding — Up to 450 unidirectional sessions per system (also includes audio transcoding), depending on system capacity, codec, resolution, and frame rate
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: CentOS Release 6, provided as part of installation
Processor: Intel Dual 545x or greater
Ethernet: Dual 1000Base-TX (RJ-45)
Memory: 4 GB RAM minimum
Storage: 60 GB HD minimum
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