Blue line 1/2/4/8 PRI PCIe available from Dialogic

Finally got in the hands new Dialogic hardware. All together it is a new family of host media processing hardware:

Low Profile Blue Line 1 PRI PCIe
Half Size Blue Line 2/4/8 PRI PCIe

The half size boards are equipped with DSP (Digital Signal Processor) for offload of most resource extensive and critical task - G.168 Echo Cancellation.

Boards are supported by standard Dialogic Diva product release and drivers and are exposing same API. This is no problem to use the board with chan_capi. This is just like to Diva boards, only certain media processing features which available on Diva are not available with Blue Line. But Blue Line is even more powerful compared to Diva PRI CTI boards: Echo cancellation is performed using hardware DSP, supporte real time media (RTP). Of cause processing extensive vocoders are not supported by Blue Line.

The Blue Line driver self is provided as binary toolkit and adapter to kernel at build time. This works without problems. Once loaded driver spreads his processing power across of multiple CPU and seems to run at software interrupt level.
At same time user mode driver provided just in case kernel mode driver can not be build. This is no difference taken a look from API which driver is used. But kernel mode scales better.

The conferencing is available too, chancapi "chat" command works without problems.

Taken all together is is very simple to use - just like Diva hardware, using same installation, build and configuratiuon tools.