Odin TeleSystems introduced the Alvis product family to provide the ultimate industry solution for voice (VoIP) and video streaming applications (TVoIP) essential for soft switch systems, media gateways and transcoding applications.

The Alvis-CSI is a complete stand-alone processing system in a compact desktop or wall-mountable unit. The product is available with or without E1/T1 interfaces. The Ethernet-only version can be used for router, soft-switch, and trans-coding applications. The Quad E1/T1 version can be used for media gateway applications (PRI VoIP), T1/T1link extensions (TDMoP/E) and T1/E1 recording systems.

The Alvis-CSI (Complete Solution Integration) is based on Texas Instruments' dual core DaVinci TMS320DM6443 Digital Media processor. This processor provides an astonishing amount of processing power which facilitates encoding and decoding of numerous simultaneous channels.

The dual core processor on the Alvis-CSI consists of one ARM9 core and one DSP C64x+ core. For optimum performance, the work load is split between the two cores. The ARM core runs the MontaVista Linux operating system and handles higher layer stacks like Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and TCP/IP. The DSP core runs DSP/BIOS (xDM codecs) and handles all real-time encoding/decoding operations.

The open architecture and the small footprint of the Alvis-CSI provides system designers with the horsepower needed to build a very powerful soft-switch or media gateway application, yet providing full flexibility for customization.