M2M modems gain a datarate Edge

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Mar 23, 2005

Multi-Tech Systems has released its new M2M Edge equipped voice/data modems.

Multi-Tech Systems has released its new M2M Edge equipped voice/data modems.

Edge uses an enhanced modulation technique for increasing the network capacity and datarates of GSM cellular wireless networks.

The Edge technology can bring dramatically increased speeds to GSM services and correspondingly better serve the M2M community.

Multi-Tech's Edge modems include the SocketModem Edge (Model MTSMC-E), which is a member of the company's embedded Universal Socket Connectivity family, and the MultiModem Edge USB or RS232 external industrial chassis models.

"Machine networking represents a new frontier for data communications", states Chip Harleman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Multi-Tech Systems.

"Multi-Tech is committed to that frontier and strives to provide the best and newest technologies".

"Edge is one of those technologies".

"Its promised speed and throughput increases can bring cellular wireless data communications to a new level of performance for applications currently pushing the limits of available wireless services".

"We have users who want to implement wireless to back-up broadband routers".

"Others have multiple machines sharing one wireless connection over Ethernet".

"And we have had interest in using wireless for remote video surveillance".

"All of these applications can benefit from the performance Edge can deliver".

"This is the kind of technology our customers expect from us and that is what we are delivering".

"With Edge we now have what we believe is the widest selection of connectivity solutions available in our embedded products and an equally impressive selection of technologies available in our external USB and RS232 interfaced units".

The embedded SocketModem Edge and external MultiModem Edge cellular wireless modems deliver broadband-like data speeds over GSM networks using Edge technology.

They are Edge (E-GPRS) Class 10 and GPRS Class 12 compliant, equipped with quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz), have packet datarates up to a theoretical 384Kbit/s, and include TCP/IP stack support for TCP, UDP, DNS, FTP, SMTP, POP3 and HTTP.

The modems support Short Message Service (SMS), are AT-like command compatible and include various voice features such as half rate (HR), full rate (FR), enhanced full rate (EFR), adaptive multirate (AMR) as well as hands free echo cancellation, and noise reduction.