Visitors that bring along a Raspberry Pi - the British designed micro-computer - to Stand 36 will be given the opportunity to transform their hardware into a PBX using ipcortex software. Even if visitors don’t have their Pi with them, ipcortex will be giving away free firmware cards that can turn any Pi into a PBX. All visitors to the stand will be shown how fast they can start to deploy sophisticated UC solutions in just 5 minutes, and can enter a free prize draw to win brand new Raspberry Pis.
ipcortex CEO Rob Pickering commented, “Turning a Pi into a PBX is a brilliant illustration of how software sophistication and ease of interface use is the essence of modern equipment. We’re not trying to show that the Pi is a good platform to run a PBX on - in fact, it isn’t really technically a good use of the Pi hardware, the hardware a PBX runs on is a consideration only of capacity and reliability - the software is the key to functionality and in this case our software runs perfectly well for demo purposes on something as accessible as the Pi.”
ipcortex will also be demonstrating how selection of the right architecture and the ubiquity of open standards such as SIP and, in the future, WebRTC, are making it easy to deploy and manage leading edge UC solutions. Visitors to their stand can expect to experience , first hand, how ipcortex software can run complex scenarios including high availability, whilst also being fast and simple to deploy.