Spectel Audio Conferencing Bridge Replacement

Owners of Spectel conferencing bridges are faced with a major challenge: how to transition from legacy technology that is no longer sold and supported, to the powerful new generation of audio/web conferencing platforms now on the market. There are many benefits to moving to a modern audio conferencing platform: scalability, ease of upgrading software based bridges, access to the latest most powerful computer hardware to host the conferencing application, support for a wide array of HD hard phones and soft phones like Skype; and ability to integrate with legacy billing and authentication applications.

Wyde Voice has the perfect solution to replace your Spectel bridge. With the Wyde SB-HD 100 and SB-HD1000, you get a bridge that:

  • Can precisely emulate your Spectel call flow so that call hosts and participants don’t have to be re-trained on how to control and interact with the conferencing bridge.
  • Supports both SIP voice traffic (natively) and supports TDM voice traffic(via commodity VoIP gateway)
  • Costs a fraction of your original Spectel bridge
  • Integrates with any web conferencing solution: Adobe Connect, WEBEX,and Persony
  • Integrates with most authentication systems such as RADIUS
  • Runs on off-the-shelf server hardware
  • Allows you to continue to use existing billing applications
  • Introduces many new capabilities such as HD Voice and other items shown in the comparison chart below

Spectel/Wyde Voice Comparison Chart

System Level Features Spectel CS7000 Wyde Voice Softbridge
Uses Off-the-shelf hardware N Y
Operating System Proprietary Linux
Each conference call can share a DID/DDI but have its own language, message, and DTMF set N Y
DTMF commands can be programmed to emulate any bridge call flow including Spectel Spectel only Y
Billing adapters to ease integration of bridge and billing application N Y
Authentication adapters to ease integration of bridge and authentication systems N Y
SIP based N Y
TDM support Y Y (VoIP gateway required)
Softphone support N Y
SNMP monitoring N Y
Easy to deploy and manage at a remote datacenter N Y
Real-time Data Replication N Y
LDAP to MS Active Directory N Y
Dial-in and Dial-Out Conferencing Y Y
Active Speaker Notification (to identify who is talking or which line is generating noise) N Y
Question and Answer Queue Management Tool N Y
Broadcaster Feature (Broadcast any discrete audio file into a live conference to reduce need to repeat training or other content) N Y
Flash-based User Interface that allows operators and hosts to manage conference calls N Y
Access codes of any length N Y
Ability for each call host to control and manage multiple access codes associated with their email address N Y
Platform can have static IPs, take IPs from external DHCP server or work in a separate dedicated subnet and run internal DHCP server for local components N Y
Scheduled and Instant (Reservationless) Conferencing Y Y
Attended and Unattended Services Y Y
Callflow Flexibility - More than 30 parameters related to call flow can be changed through web interface N Y
Each phone line recorded individually in the conference allowing ability to search for time when specific person talked during call N Y
Sub conferencing (ability have create/manage breakout rooms in a conference) N Y
Flash Based Dashboard that allows operators and call hosts to manage Question and Answer Sessions N Y
Web service API and RT API that allows for integration with external web conferencing solutions N Y
Blast Dial-out and Dial-Out to Streaming available through API N Y
Active Speaker Notification (tell who is talking, isolate noisy lines) N Y
Custom greeting available per DNIS and per conference N Y
Access to Call playback via phone or UI N Y
Flexible Mute Control
Individual/Group mute is available via DTMF/Web/API.
Group mute allows moderator to mute/unmute all participants (Open-Mute-Lecture);
Open - all can speak
Mute - all participants muted but can unmute themselves
Lecture - all muted can’t unmute themselves
N Y
High Definition Codec support: G.722, G.722.1, G.722.2, iSAC N Y
Waiting Room Feature for incoming participants. Moderator can review the queue through the UI or interview each participant, and then drop selected calls. N Y
Automatic Gain Control N Y
Support for local and remote software upgrade, monitoring, diagnosis, configuration, and troubleshooting N Y

Learn more about what features a cutting edge bridge should have in our white paper, "Guide to Buying an Audio Conferencing Bridge".