VOCAL’s Media Gateway Reference Design adds video capability to our popular ATA Reference Design to enable licensees to create next-generation video products with a rich, flexible feature set, world-wide configurability, multilingual support, and simple upgrade/expansion paths. Please contact us to discuss your media gateway applications.
VOCAL’s Media Gateway software is modular and optimized for DSPs and conventional processors from TI, ADI, ARM, AMD, Intel and other leading vendors. Our extensive experience with the design and configuration of VoIP, network and telephony applications will help you select the right solution for your media gateway product.
Media Gateway Features
Complete listings of all the features and technical specifications are available. Highlights of the Media Gateway Reference Design include:
- Full color, full motion video using H.264 and MPEG-4
- Video conferencing
- Streaming video and audio player
- T.38 real-time fax over IP
- Flexible device profiles
- Multiple line support for FXS and FXO ports with multiple ethernet ports
- SIP and/or MGCP with H.323 support for multiple VoIP providers
- Encrypted communication using secure RTP (SRTP) with SDES or proprietary key negotiation
- Network stack with NAT/firewall support
- Voice codecs such as G.711, G723.1, G.726, G.729AB, MELP, and iLBC vocoders
- High performance G.168 echo canceller
- An extensive set of telephony features
- Call progress tones with world-wide configurability
- Ringing patterns with multiple ringing tones, message waiting (tone/ring/visual), etc
- Quality of service configurability
- Flexible configuration and provisioning options
- Multilingual Web configuration via built-in Web server and hierarchical user levels
- Mass production support for flashing code image, firmware configuration, and testing
- Remote administration and firmware update
- Power-off/911 service failover
Applications
- Videophone
- Enterprise communications with videoconferencing
- IPTV
- Streaming video and audio players
- Fax gateway
- Information appliances
- Home media gateway
- Telemedicine
- Distance learning
- Lawful interception and surveillance
Media Gateway DSP Software
When used with VOCAL’s highly optimized On-One™ DSP technology, developers 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 (i.e. uClinux).
Since 1986 VOCAL has been developing innovative and custom designs for the telecommunications industry. Our expertise and comprehensive customization support will result in the product you want at an unbeatable cost. The benefit of having VOCAL provide both the hardware design and a complete, optimized software solution means a fully integrated, robust product which can be brought to market quickly.
Reference Design Kit
VOCAL’s Media Gateway Reference Design Kit provides developers a customizable, fully-functional hardware and software solution with:
- Schematics
- BOM
- Complete custom firmware
- Technical engineering assistance with layout design and hardware bringup
- Lifetime product maintenance and support
Interoperability
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 clients over the past 10 years, 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 VoIP suite works 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. Device configuration can be completely managed using the web interface built into the firmware or restricted as desired by the licensee. For further information regarding compatibility and interoperability testing, please contact us.
Provisioning
The provisioning and continued management of deployed devices is a common consideration for many service providers and product manufacturers. VOCAL’s flexible TR-069 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. We can customize our provisioning mechanisms to meet any specific 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 units. All tone and ring cadences are configurable to meet world-wide requirements and international call progress standards. Multilingual web access and configuration of the device through its built-in web server can be performed dynamically. Since configuration files may be developed for specific unitss or a whole product line with similar ease, management and control is under complete administrator control.