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Our Echo GSM Voice and SMS Recording devices provide powerful features for building portable to large channel count enterprise level GSM Voice and SMS Recorders. The PCI model occupies a single standard 5V PCI slot and combines a compact low profile form factor with low power consumption for medium density industrial chassis applications.

GSM

The 19" rack version with GSM plugin modules is available with 8 or 16 modules for high density applications. The USB model features a USB 2.0 compatible high throughput USB interface and combines a compact form factor with low power consumption for ultimate portability.

GSM

On-board DSP and large streaming buffers impose very little demand on system and application resources. Signalling support for Call Setup, Connect, Clear, DDI number, CLI number and SMS message decoding and encoding.

The speech encoding/compression is 64kbit/s A-law (G.711), 36kbit/s proprietary encoding. The estimated MTBF is 400,000 hours.

Features & benefits

  • Mid size low profile PCI board for medium density applications
  • 19" rack version with GSM plugin modules for high density applications
  • Mains powered device with USB 2.0 interface for portable applications
  • Integrated back-to-back GSM gateways with easy SIM card access
  • SMA connectors for external antennas reduce EMI
  • Dialled number, Caller ID, User Name and SMS messaging support
  • Digital Signal Processor for voice streaming, tone cadence generation and on-board Call / SMS routing processing
  • Embedded Call / SMS routing fallback transparancy in case of OS / application failure
  • Supports Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 10, Server 2003, 2008 and 2012
  • 64kbit/s A-law and high quality compressed 36kbit/s speech encoding
  • Supports writing of directly playable WAV files to disk
  • CE, FCC and RoHS compliance

Technical specifications

Form factor Mid size low-profile standard 5V PCI card, USB device or 19" rack in half or full width version
Operating temperature 0 oC to +60 oC
Humidity 5% to 80% non-condensing
Maximum power requirements PCI model: +5Vdc (1 A) and USB model: +12Vdc (500 mA)
Operating Systems supported All 32-bit and 64-bit Windows editions
Maximum density Mix of 12 PCI boards for 24 users, mix of 4 USB devices for 8 users or multiple 19" racks for 64-128 users

Interface specifications
GSM interface Quad Band
Gateways Two integrated GSM gateways per user or one GSM gateway per user in conference mode (doubling the amount of users)
RF interface
  • PCI model: SMA connectors at PCI bracket
  • USB model: SMA connectors at backside device
  • Rack model: SMA connectors at frontside
SIM interface
  • PCI model: Slide-in SIM connector at PCI bracket
  • USB model: Slide-in SIM connector at backside device
  • Rack model: Slide-in SIM connector at frontside

Audio processing
Upstream & downstream audio gain Programmable via API
Frequency response 300Hz - 3.4KHz (all compression modes)
Speech encoding/compression 64Kbit/s a-law (G.711), 36Kbit/s proprietary encoding, API programmable

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