Founded in 2004, Xorcom is a privately-held IP-PBX manufacturer. Xorcom harnesses the power of Asterisk® Open Source IP-PBX – the most rapidly growing telephony platform in the world – to design and produce leading-edge hardware telephony solutions for commercial installations. Today, Xorcom offers the widest and most flexible range of solutions and hardware platforms in the Asterisk market. System integrators, telecom equipment manufacturers, and customer premise telephony and VoIP providers use Xorcom products to provide added value to their end users.

Xorcom engineers are part of the worldwide Asterisk development team and cooperate with the main players in this field. The Xorcom driver (xpp-Xorcom Peripheral Protocol) has been a standard component in the DAHDI (formerly Zaptel) package since Asterisk version 1.2.4, released in Feb. 2006.
Xorcom sells its products via a worldwide distribution channel and OEM partners.

Products

Astribank™ - USB-connected telephony interfaces (channel bank) for Asterisk – Astribank is a revolutionary concept in telephony interfaces for Asterisk systems. Using USB 2.0 ports to connect to any Asterisk server, Astribank eliminates the requirement for a PCI (E1/T1) card, and even for PCI slots. The USB 2.0 interface provides a theoretical speed of 480 Mbits per second, which for typical uncompressed phone conversations translates to roughly 2,400 calls per port. Astribank is available in a variety of models, all based on combinations of the following types of modules: FXS, FXO, PRI (E1 and T1), CAS, R2 and BRI ISDN, to match user specifications. Connections for peripheral devices, such as alarms and door openers, are also supported. The USB architecture employed by Xorcom products affords many advantages, including the ability to build large systems that support hundreds of analog extensions, rapid set-up and easy maintenance.

Multiple Astribank units may be connected to a single server using different USB 2.0 ports, or a USB 2.0 hub, or a USB 2.0 PCI card, to easily create a telephony system that supports hundreds of analog extensions. By providing support for MWI (Message Waiting Indicator) in analog phones, Astribank becomes an especially practical solution for large commercial implementations, such as hotels and assisted living facilities. Supported options include utilities for disaster recovery and high availability.

XR1000™, XR2000™, and XR3000™ – Asterisk-based IP-PBX Systems – These all-in-one appliances are based on the Astribank technology and allow seamless communication using both VoIP and traditional telephony protocols. Members of the series differ in the number of supported users and features, starting from the basic XR1000, which is suitable for SOHO, up to the robust XR3000, which supports up to four PRI connections along with hundreds of analog and IP extensions. All XR models are compatible with the leading Asterisk distributions, including: trixbox CE® and Elastix™.

High Availability

Xorcom offers the only commercially-supported high availability PBX based on Asterisk, called TwinStar. This award-winning hot failover solution provides automatic detection of PBX failure and immediate switching of all telephony functions, including traditional and IP-based telephony, to a back-up server within seconds. The singular architecture of the USB 2.0-connected Astribank channel bank, which houses the TwinStar intelligence, enables this unique capability for Asterisk-based systems.

In addition, the Rapid Recovery integrated backup and restore utility enables simple, safe and speedy recovery of all Xorcom's IP-PBX solutions. A redundant power supply unit provides dedicated power to up to 16 Astribank devices via four separate internal power supplies in a microcomputer-based system. In the event that one of the power units malfunctions, an alert is dispatched to the system administrator (via e-mail or automated prerecorded phone message) so that maintenance can be scheduled. In the meantime, all of the Astribanks continue to function seamlessly, since the remaining power units regroup to provide the requisite power.