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Omnitronics News June 2007
Welcome to the June edition of Omnitronics News. This issue is packed with the latest product releases, applications and information about some exciting product developments. The R&D team at Omnitronics have been working tirelessly to incorporate some smart features into our IPR products. Two recent innovations include multicasting for the Internet and support for DNS. Until now, the ability to perform multicasting over the Internet has not been possible. Omnitronics however, have now implemented a technique to overcome this issue. Omnitronics' Radio Conferencing for the Internet (RCI) enables a number of radios to be linked together over the Internet in a peer-to-peer arrangement. Once in operation, audio received from any radio will be transmitted to every other radio.
Domain Name Services (DNS) functionality has also been added to enable customers to more easily configure IPR devices using URL's instead of IP addresses. Customers can take advantage of this feature to install an IPR device on an ADSL link using a dynamic IP address. This negates the need to purchase a more expensive static IP address.
These new features are currently available for the IPR100, single channel VoIP adapter. Feel free to contact the team at Omnitronics for further information. We hope you enjoy this edition of Omnitronics News.
Regards
John Florenca
CEO
New Release DX-64 with the power of VoIP
The team at Omnitronics have been working tirelessly to develop the new release DX-64 with VoIP capabilities. This highly scalable and cost effective radio management system intergrates telephone and radio which will soon be transportable over an IP network. The new release is planned for July, keep an eye out for this innovative product. The diagram below shows what will be possible with the new DX-64 system.
Malaysian Oil & Gas company achieve remote radio switching using IP
This Malaysian Oil & Gas company operates an offshore platform 150 - 200 Km from their onshore facility. The company needs to use Air band radio to communicate with helicopter crews from its shore based control room. However, Air band radio can not provide reliable coverage because of the distance to the off-shore platform. Omnitronics developed a VoIP solution utilising the existing IP connection between the control room and the platform. The solution is transparent to users and radios. Using a
960CSD console, an operator can switch communications from the local Air band radio to a remote radio on the platform, depending on the position of the helicopter. The switching is carried-out with a couple of simple key strokes on the console's keypad. Under-pinning this solution is the IPR100 VoIP adapter that uses SIP technology to create and manage voice communications through a Wide Area Network.
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IPR's provide real time access to a remote mine site
This large mining organisation required a "back-up" control room 1,500km's away from it's remote Western Australian mine at which staff could talk/listen to operations and emergency radio channels in real time. The client specifically requested to retain SELCAL/ANI functions from the remote site.
Utilising the existing WAN, IPR100's were installed to extend radio channels to the remote Perth control room. The IPR100's are transparent to SELCAL & ANI's, as requested by the customer. The client previously had installed Omnitronics consoles, so operators were already familiar with the hardware. The 960 consoles interfaced to the IPR100's using a direct connection making it as simple as plug 'n' play.
Application - Linking repeater sites for Interoperability
The IPR100 and IPR400 products can be used in various combinations to provide powerful interoperability solutions. The IPR400 can interconnect up to four conventional and Trunking radios. These radios can be linked together to perform cross banding at the radio level or through Voice over IP. This example shows how a multi-radio interoperability site can be linked with a remote VHF repeater site through the Internet or a corporate LAN. The IPR400 handles the cross banding of the disparate radios and automatically provides delayed transmit audio to the Trunking unit. Through IP, the remote VHF repeater can also key each of the radios on the IPR400 and conversely, each of those can key the VHF repeater.
Application - Linking multiple radio sites over the Internet
With Omnitronics' Radio Conferencing for the Internet, clients can link multiple radios in a peer-to-peer arrangement. Audio received on one radio will be broadcast to all of the other radios in the group, via the IPR100's. Whilst the example above shows VHF transceivers, any mix of conventional or Trunking radios is possible. The Internet connection can use either static IP addresses or dynamic IP addresses through DNS. Furthermore, communications through the Internet is secure because of the built-in encryption and bandwidth requirements are minimised by employing audio compression.
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CommunicAsia 2007 highly successful
Omnitronics recently returned from Singapore where we exhibited at the highly popular CommunicAsia Expo. The show was attended by Communications and IT professionals from around the world and this year our VoIP adaptors, audio bridges and radio management products proved very popular. Thank you to everyone who came to visit, we look forward to seeing you there again in 2008.
