The communications appliance

Pentacomm

One platform for every conversation, on hardware you own.

A full PBX, integrated call center, carrier trunking, compliant call recording, and live operational visibility — unified in one multi-tenant, standards-based appliance you own and control.

Pentacomm admin console — live calls, extensions, trunks and service health.
A single web console for the entire platform.
Executive summary

One platform for every conversation

Pentacomm consolidates the systems an organization normally buys separately — a phone system, a contact-center suite, a session border controller, and a call recorder — into a single, self-contained appliance managed from one web console. It runs on your own hardware or private cloud, so calls, recordings, and customer data never leave your control.

Because Pentacomm is multi-tenant at its core, one appliance can serve many departments, sites, or customers in complete isolation. And because it speaks open telecom standards end to end, it interoperates with any SIP carrier and any standards-based phone or browser — with no proprietary lock-in at the protocol layer.

Why it matters

What decision-makers get

Consolidate the stack

Replace a PBX, a call-center platform, an SBC, and a recording server with one system — fewer vendors, fewer integrations, lower total cost.

Own your data

Deployed on-premises or in your private cloud. Media and recordings stay inside your perimeter, encrypted and under your control.

Compliance-ready

GDPR consent prompts, caller opt-out, pause / mask recording, and a full audit trail are built in — not bolted on.

No lock-in

Standards-based SIP and WebRTC mean you keep your carriers, your numbers, and your phones. Switch providers without switching platforms.

Scales by tenant

Service providers and multi-site enterprises host many isolated organizations on a single, database-enforced multi-tenant platform.

Fast to deploy

A single install and a guided first-boot wizard take a clean server to a live system in minutes.

Capabilities

Everything a modern voice platform needs

Each area below is production-ready today and managed from the same console, with role-based access for administrators, supervisors, and agents.

Cloud PBX core

Extensions, ring groups, inbound and outbound routing with trunk failover, weekly business-hours modes and holidays, voicemail with message-waiting indication, and class-of-service dialing controls.

Standard IVR auto-attendant

Multi-level, menu-driven auto-attendants — DTMF menus, time-of-day routing, prompt playback and directed call handling to extensions, queues, voicemail or sub-menus. Edits are live on the next call, no reload.

Integrated call center

Queues and agents, an in-browser WebRTC softphone (no plugins), a live wallboard, supervisor KPI reports and QA scoring, scheduled callbacks, and self-service agent and supervisor portals.

Audio conference bridge

Multi-party audio conferencing with PIN-protected rooms, moderator controls (mute, kick, lock, record), scheduling with dial-out to invitees, and a live web console — secured by the same SRTP media edge.

Carrier trunks & secure media

SIP trunks in register, auth, or peer mode with ordered failover and per-trunk caller-ID rules. A hardened media edge terminates SRTP / DTLS so every leg — carrier, desk phone, or browser — is encrypted.

Fax server

Inbound and outbound fax over T.38 (with G.711 / T.30 fallback) — a web fax inbox, PDF send, and secure fax-to-email delivery, encrypted at rest per tenant. Runs on the same appliance, with no fax hardware and no separate fax server. A licensable module.

Recording & compliance

Per-tenant call recording encrypted with dedicated keys. GDPR consent announcements, DTMF opt-out, periodic beep, and supervisor pause / mask keep you on the right side of regulation.

Visibility & reporting

Searchable call-detail records with CSV, XLSX, and PDF export; a real-time dashboard of live calls and registrations; a GDPR-grade audit log; and live diagnostics for operations teams.

Built-in firewall & intrusion prevention

A perimeter firewall with automated intrusion-prevention jails that detect and block SIP scanners, credential brute-force, and web-login abuse — with allow / block lists and per-jail tuning from the console.

Security & multi-tenancy

Strict per-tenant isolation enforced in the database, role-based access control, TLS throughout, and an offline license bound to the hardware to prevent cloning.

What sets Pentacomm apart

Engineered for control, compliance, and trust

One appliance, the whole stack

Installed from a single package with a guided setup wizard. There is no sprawl of servers to integrate — the PBX, call center, trunking, recording, and reporting are one coherent system.

Standards-first, not vendor-first

A standards-conformant SIP edge and secure WebRTC softphones mean interoperability with any carrier and any compliant device. Your investment is protected against any single vendor's roadmap.

Compliance designed in

Recording consent, opt-out, pause / mask, encryption, and audit logging are core features — giving legal and compliance teams the controls they need without custom work.

Multi-tenant by architecture

Tenant isolation is enforced at the database layer, not left to application convention. One customer can never see another's data.

Continuously validated

An automated SIP call-flow test suite exercises real scenarios on every release, so upgrades are safe and behaviour is predictable in production.

You keep ownership

On-premises or private-cloud deployment keeps numbers, recordings, and customer data inside your control.

The bottom line

Fewer vendors. Lower cost. Full control of your data — and the compliance evidence to prove it.

Sizing & capacity

Right-sized for your traffic

Pentacomm runs the entire stack on one appliance, so capacity scales with the cores, memory and storage you give it. The figures below are indicative, assuming standard G.711 / Opus pass-through media (no transcoding) with SRTP relayed through the kernel media edge. Real-world capacity depends on your codec mix, recording ratio and average call duration — we certify a target profile with a proof-of-concept load test.

Hardware appliances

Purpose-built, ready-to-rack appliances — each with four Gigabit network interfaces for clean separation of carrier, LAN, management and out-of-band traffic.

Hardware appliance

Pentacomm 100

Branch / SMB — 4-core CPU, 8 GB RAM, 240 GB SSD, 4× 1 GbE. Up to ~100 endpoints and ~50 concurrent calls.

Hardware appliance

Pentacomm 500

Mid-market — 6-core CPU, 16 GB RAM, 2× 480 GB SSD (RAID 1), 4× 1 GbE. Up to ~500 endpoints and ~120 concurrent calls.

Hardware appliance

Pentacomm 2000

Enterprise — 8-core CPU, 32 GB RAM, 2× 960 GB SSD (RAID 1), 4× 1 GbE. Up to ~2,000 endpoints and ~250 concurrent calls.

Virtual appliance (private cloud)

The same platform as a VM on your VMware, Proxmox, KVM or private-cloud hypervisor, in four sizing tiers. The largest, high-density tier is virtual-only.

Small
4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB — ~100 endpoints, ~50 concurrent calls, ~5 calls/sec, ~25 conference participants.
Medium
6 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 250 GB — ~500 endpoints, ~120 concurrent calls, ~15 calls/sec, ~100 conference participants.
Large
8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · 500 GB — ~2,000 endpoints, ~250 concurrent calls, ~30 calls/sec, ~200 conference participants.
X-Large / Carrier
16 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 1 TB — ~5,000 endpoints, ~1,000 concurrent calls, ~60 calls/sec, ~500 conference participants. Adds cores for high density.

What drives capacity

Transcoding
G.711 / Opus pass-through is near-free; codec-mismatch transcoding (e.g. G.729) is CPU-bound — add cores where carriers force it.
Call recording
Adds AES-256-GCM encryption per recorded leg plus storage — budget ~30 MB per hour per recorded G.711 call; size the data disk to your retention policy.
SIP registrations
Thousands of registrations are inexpensive (signalling only) and consume no media capacity until calls are active.
Product roadmap

Where Pentacomm is heading

The platform evolves on a published roadmap. The following capabilities are in active development, building on the same standards-based foundation.

In development

Visual IVR designer

A drag-and-drop call-flow builder — design menus, prompts, business-hours branches, queue and voicemail targets on a visual canvas, with no scripting. Publishes straight to the live dialplan, on top of the standard IVR that ships today.

In development

AI IVR

Conversational, natural-language self-service — speech-to-text, intent understanding and text-to-speech let callers be routed and served by voice, with graceful hand-off to a live agent.

In development

Hotel link

Hospitality / PMS integration — wake-up calls, room status and check-in/out, minibar posting and per-room call billing, linked to the property management system. A licensable module for hotels.

Put your phone system in every pocket.

See Pentacomm running on a live appliance and PentaPhone registered against it — or against your existing SIP platform. Talk to us about a proof-of-concept, licensing, and deployment.

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