Communications for Offshore Drilling

Reduce the cost of extending communication services to offshore drilling platforms, including transmission of analog telephony, data, and Ethernet via IP satellite uplinks

Owners and operators of offshore drilling rigs wanting to expand the capacity of their communications network while reducing costs can employ RAD’s Vmux voice trunking gateways. Vmux provides 16:1 voice compression, significantly reducing the amount of bandwidth consumed on expensive satellite or microwave links.

 

By minimizing the effects of latency and echo inherent in satellite circuits, the Vmux maintains toll quality voice yet is completely transparent to all PBX services and features. Vmux devices support a variety of analog and digital voice ports along with 10/100BaseT, serial or E1/T1 network links for direct connection to any satellite terminal. They also enable manual ring down (MRD) circuit connections.

 

Further, by converging voice, fax and Ethernet traffic over the same network link, Vmux provides further significant savings in the cost of extending communication services to oil platforms.

• Reduces bandwidth required for voice transmission by 16:1, lowering transmission costs while optimizing the communications infrastructure

• Fast return on investment

• Transparency to PBX features, signaling protocols and LANs protects investment in existing equipment
• Pseudowire multiplexing provides higher bandwidth savings than any standard VoIP solution