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In the ever-changing VoIP landscape, analog telephone adapter (ATA) vendors need to design and build stable products that can be brought to market quickly. VOCAL Reference Designs enable licensees to easily develop standards-based, next-generation products with an extensive feature list, world-wide configurability, multilingual support, and simple upgrade/expansion paths. Our Reference Designs far surpass the competition in terms of cost advantage and time-to-market potential, achieving scalable channel density while supporting easy integration of new feature modules. Component choices include industrial grade parts for ATAs designed for use in harsh environments, over industrial temperature range -40ºC - +85ºC.
VOCAL's highly optimized On-One™ DSP technology can significantly reduce materials cost. By running all DSP functions and application protocols under its own simple network operating system, all high density processing can be performed on a single processor. For higher channel densities, our Reference Designs scale to the use of a full operating system, such as embedded Linux (e.g. uClinux).
We have over 20 years of custom design and development experience in the telecommunications industry. Our expertise and extensive customization support will result in the product you want at an unbeatable cost. Since VOCAL provides both the hardware design and a complete, optimized software solution, the result is a fully integrated, robust product which can be brought to market quickly.
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The compliance of our telephony software to industry standards has been consistently demonstrated over the course of twenty years of software and hardware development and testing. Over 10 million ports of VOCAL products have been shipped by our customers using VOCAL's voice processing, data and facsimile modulations, data protocols, facsimile command sets, and network protocol stacks. Many high density server systems have been developed using VOCAL software, each meeting extensive interoperability standards.
Our ATAs work seamlessly with popular industrial servers such as those available from Cisco, Quintum, NetCentrex, and Asterisk. VOCAL has conducted exhaustive compatibility and interoperability testing using many VoIP providers. Example configurations for service providers such as Vonage, Broadsoft, Global Village, Free World Dialup, as well as many others are available. ATA configuration can be completely managed using the web interface built into the ATA software or restricted as desired by the licensee. For further information regarding compatibility and interoperability testing, please contact us.
The provisioning and continued management of deployed ATAs is a common consideration for many VoIP service providers and product manufacturers. VOCAL's flexible software interface is designed to support many common provisioning restrictions, including hierarchical user access levels, restricted network or internet access, as well as manual or automatic firmware updates. In addition, we can customize our provisioning mechanisms to meet any specific provisioning requirements.
Individual advanced features may be configured based upon the customer's service plan and administrators may prepare configuration change files and firmware updates for automatic distribution to deployed ATAs. All tone and ring cadences and frequencies are configurable to meet world-wide requirements and international call progress standards. Similarly, multilingual web access and configuration of the ATA through its built-in web server is not only possible but may be set dynamically. Since configuration files may be developed for specific ATAs or a whole product line with similar ease, management and control of the ATA is under complete administrator control.
The 2x2+1 ATA Reference Design supports up to two telephone lines, two Ethernet ports and a PSTN life-line port for automated voice service switching in case of a power outage or network disconnection and is stackable to larger port configurations. End users can connect their homes and businesses to VoIP services using conventional wired and cordless phones without incurring additional monthly service fees or adding extra hardware. The 2x2+1 ATA solution initiates calls using the rapidly emerging IP telephony standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIPv2) and supports multiple advanced codecs to optimize performance. For VoIP service providers looking for a design that is easily configurable with their networks, the solution provides secure and sophisticated Web-based provisioning and firmware update technology.
The 2x2+1 ATA solution is reconfigurable in the field and designed to give OEMs and service providers the ability to bring their products to market quickly and deploy them with immediate interoperability in most broadband VoIP service provider networks. OEM customers can also take advantage of VOCAL's high-end customization capabilities, including reference design assistance and integration of value-added features.
Unlike traditional architectures, the 2x2+1 ATA hardware and software designs fully utilize leading DSP resources and advanced patent-pending algorithms to eliminate the need for an additional RISC processor, reducing the cost of typical bill of material by as much as $8 per design. This solution is ideal for VoIP equipment suppliers desiring to add a low-cost, compact ATA solution to their portfolios.