Annuncicom Family
Barix Annuncicom IP Intercom Technology
IP Intercom devices for bidirectional transmission of high quality audio, contact closures and serial data over IP networks The Annuncicom IP Intercom products are embedded, reliable, IP-enabled audio devices which can be used in applications such as IP-based paging systems, Intercom systems, general IP Audio distribution, and stored audio/message player applications.
Common hardware features:
- Audio codec (encoder/decoder) for MPEG1&2 Layer3 (MP3), PCM linear and a law, u-law, 8-48k sample rate support.
- 10/100 Mbit/s auto-negotiation Ethernet interface
- USB 1.1 interface for flash memory, FAT16/32 file-system support (USB not available on Annuncicom 1000)
- Wide range power supply input, low power consumption
- Two serial interfaces (RS-232 and RS-485)
Typical software features:
- Streaming with UDP, RTP, TCP, Multicast
- Audio playback and recording from/to USB memory (FAT16/32) (not available on Annuncicom 1000)
- Browser based configuration and User Interface
- Control Interface via Serial, TCP, UDP, CGI
- User programmable in ABCL (Audio Barix Control Language, which is very similar to BASIC)
Software applications available:
Various application-specific firmware packages with different feature sets are available and
can be installed on Annuncicom devices.
Here is an incomplete list of available firmware packages:
- SIP door station, intercom and paging gateway
- Paging/Intercom master
- Paging/Intercom slave with background music support
- Entertainment/Hotel/Paging client
- Audio recording and server upload application
- General-purpose audio streaming
- Digital message player/repeater with contact closure inputs, local recording, network update
- IP Speaker with talkback capability
