Voxeo Talks

After we demonstrated our 16,000 port demo system at SpeechTEK in August as part of our Prophecy 10 announcement, we received a lot of questions about the case we used for the demo system… mostly along the lines of:

“Hey, that’s a really cool case! Where can I buy one?”

The truth is that we built the case ourselves. There is definitely a strong “modding” ethic within Voxeo (of computers, cars, equipment, pretty much anything…) so building this case was right in line with that part of our culture.

In this three part blog post series, I’m going to show how we built the case and then transported it down to New York for SpeechTEK.

First, though, if you haven’t seen the video of Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor talking about the server and Prophecy 10 (and giving a tour of the server), here it is:

As to the name used in the title of this post, we called this 16,000 port system internally “the Beast” and so naturally the case was called “the Beast Cage“.

Now, on to the photos…

We started with an Odyssey FZAR4 4-space rack. This box is normally used to transport high-end audio gear.
	First we modified the rear portion of the case. On the left will be a two-port ethernet connection. On the right is the hole for the power connection.
Here’s a close-up view of the 2-port Ethernet jack plate.
	Here we’re almost done with the Ethernet connection.
We next added two more holes for cooling fans.
	We added two 8mm cooling fans.
Ethernet, cooling fans, and twist-lock power connector are now installed. We paid $8 more for the fans with the blue LED lights.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we get the system ready to go…

Related posts:

1. The Making of the “Beast Cage”, Part 2
2. The Making of the “Beast Cage”, Part 3
3. Voice & Cloud Computing: “Pushing IVR Into The Cloud, Part 1: Making the Move”
4. Photos of Voxeo at SpeechTEK NY 2010 (1st set)

Tags: Beast Cage, SpeechTEK

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