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We are proud that Rhino is part of the Asterisk community.

Each Rhino is fully compatible with Asterisk; our channel banks feature the Rhino-only automatic setup option called "Auto T1" making installation a breeze.

Reduce the cost of your Asterisk system with the Rhino Channel Bank.

With the Rhino you can use your current analog phones and wiring in conjunction with leading edge Asterisk technology-- without upgrading to new expensive internet capable phones. This way, internet phone calls can still be made with the equipment you are already using.

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Ceros Presentations and Video Sources
  Watch the HTML Ceros Appliance presentation (no movies, self navigated)
  Watch the YouTube Ceros Appliance video presentation
  Download the High Resolution Quicktime Ceros Appliance presentation (150MB)

 

Ceros Chassis for Rhino PCI and PCI Express Cards - Intel Based!

Ceros Software

Standard Features

Providing reliable, flexible, and leading-edge solutions for a demanding industry.

 

Managing your open source telecommunication needs has never been easier than with Rhino products. Ceros provides instant credibility to your Value Added Reseller (VAR) product line, by providing an unmarked PC chassis that is simply customized by editing a simple XML file, plus NEW! your company graphical Logo in BMP format. The graphic and text in the file is displayed on the LCD at all times for your customers to visually identify your own branded PBX product.

 

Knowing that Rhino products are ready to perform right out of the box means that you can spend more time developing important customer relationships. Ceros comes preloaded with Linux and Asterisk, along with all the necessary configurations for the specific installed Rhino hardware. All that is needed is to customize extensions and other outside system environment configurations.

 

The Ceros chassis was designed with VARs in mind. The chassis comes with no external markings or silk screening, and comes shipped in two cartons -- an outside carton that can be discarded so that a pristine, inside carton can be cleanly shipped to your end customer.

Rhino Equipment Corp. offers you a complete line of low cost PCI plug-in cards including Single T1/E1, Dual T1/E1, Quad T1/E1, Quad FXO analog, Octal FXS/FXO and 24-port analog mixed mode analog interfaces. And don’t forget the full line of Rhino Channel Bank products, for large scale analog FXS or FXO applications.

 

Rhino designed products are tough. In the rare case of trouble, our technical support staff is ready to give you the support you need, when you need it. Our 5-year, limited warranty means that you can be confident that Rhino will always work hard in your Open Source Telephony application.

 

Ceros is a reseller item only! Contact a Rhino distributor for details, or email us at sales@rhinoequipment.com.

 

New for 2008 is the ability to have Rhino install any available Asterisk-based Linux distribution. Here is a short list (in alphabetical order) of the expected distributions that will be supported.

 

Elastix (www.elastix.org)

PBX in a Flash (www.pbxinaflash.net)

AsteriskNow (www.asterisknow.org)

trixbox ce 2.6 (www.trixbox.com)

And more to come!

 

Please note that Rhino will install and test Rhino hardware with the distribution of choice. Please let your distributor know which version you would like installed! And if you have a distribution that you would like to see supported, please email us at sales@rhinoequipment.com.

 

Ceros Upgrades:

- 160Gb and 250Gb hard drive

- RAID1 (two mirrored drives)

- Upgrade RAM to 4Gb

- Redundant hot swappable power supply

- Others upon request

 

 

 

•Looks like a PBX!

 

•Asterisk soft PBX tested and ready

 

•Asterisk preloaded and tested with installed Rhino PCI cards

 

•Zaptel compliant open source
module source code included

 

• Ready to go right out of the box, all you add is specific installation data like extensions and names

 

•No need for a monitor or keyboard, the Rhino SLI interface provides all system management interfacing

 

•5-year limited warranty

 

Unlimited Support

 

Standard Ceros Features

Chassis Mechanical Data

•Asterisk soft PBX tested
•Preloaded with your Asterisk distribution of choice
•Accepts all Rhino PCI and PCI Express cards. Full length cards have special anchor brackets to fully secure cards in the chassis
•Fully tested and integrated with all installed Rhino hardware
•3U tall, 17” wide x 13.5 deep” external dimensions

•Washable front air filter
•Rubber bumper feet

•19”and wall mounting brackets - all included in box
•Dual high reliability chassis fans
•Six line graphical Rhino OSLI, serial LCD and 5-button navigation keypad
•No external monitor or keyboard required
•Double shipping box - ship a clean box to your customer!
•5-year limited warranty

 

Size :

3U (5.25") tall 17” wide, 13.5 ” deep

NEW! All Black design

NEW! Front panel aluminum colorization plate

NEW! Single piece top lid, can be opened while rack mounted

 

Form Factor:

Rack mount, wall mount, table top

 

Weight :

25 pounds for base configuration

 

CerosIntel

Base Configurations

•Intel Core2 Duo Processor (Intel DG33 motherboard)
•80G SATA hard drive (upgradeable to 160 and 250GB, RAID1 also available)
•1GB 667MHz DDR2 memory (upgradeable to 4GB)
•400W power supply, 100-240VAC, 50-60Hz, Active PFC

NEW! Optional Dual Redundant 400W power supply, 100-240VAC, 50-60Hz, Active PFC, hot swappable
•Three PCI slots, three PCI Express slots
NEW! Rhino SLI 6-line Graphical LED and 5-button keypad
•Video, mouse and keyboard ports
•Six USB ports, one firewire port, audio stack
•10/100/GbE integrated network

 

* due to improvements, details subject to change at any time

 

Core2 Intel MB IO