Increased call volumes for disaster teams

RAD Data Communications Vmux voice trunking gateway solution has been selected by Inmarsat for its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) product.

Intended to combine voice and broadband data into one portable device, BGAN has been designed to revolutionise and break the boundaries of mobile offices.

"The unique Vmux voice trunking gateway family is especially designed to allow maritime facilities, the oil and gas industry, broadcasters, disaster recovery teams and the military to increase the number of calls that can be transferred on limited satellite bandwidth," said Asaf Wachtel from RAD Data Communications.

"So more bandwidth can be made available for data or additional voice lines," he added, particularly given it uses state-of-the-art voice codecs, silence suppression, and RAD's unique TDMoIP multiplexing - packing four voice channels into the 32 kbps IP-streaming BGAN service.

As the first mobile system to deliver guaranteed data rates, it is hoped that by utilising Vmux technology, BGAN will connect users even in unreliable network conditions.

"When you pick up a phone anywhere in the world that's connected via a Vmux to BGAN, the quality of the connection will be the same as if you’re picking up a phone on your office desk," Mr Wachtel explained.

Following its commercial introduction to the US in May of last year, BGAN developer Inmarsat announced that its voice and data network had covered 85 per cent of the world's surface.