Announcing OrcaTec Echo: Making Email Archiving Usable

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) December 20, 2011

OrcaTec today announced it has added to its product line OrcaTec Echo, powered by the OrcaTec Document Decisioning Suite.

OrcaTec Echo transforms the black hole of a traditional email archive into a useful business tool for litigation readiness, regulatory compliance and risk management by making information in email immediately findable once it is archived into Echo. Plus, Echo includes the power of all the OrcaTec tools, such as predictive coding, concept search and other visual analytics, all for one flat monthly fee.

Companies will now be able to find and analyze the information they need from within the massive quantities of data they store, and even watch for potential problems as email is being archived.

Storing is easy; finding is hard, said OrcaTec President and CEO Arnaud Viviers. Many businesses have archives. Theyre very good at getting data in, but its always a challenge getting data out when you need it. If you cant find it again, its almost like not keeping it at all. Thats why we developed Echo. Collect, store, analyze, retrieve thats what Echo-ing your email means.

What makes OrcaTec Echo unique is the combination of the automated email archive, immediate usability, automated filters, proven search tools and budgetability. CFOs are tired of not knowing what its going to cost to process and search through archived email, either for eDiscovery, litigation readiness, or any of the other reasons investigation needs arise. With Echo, they will know what it costs per month, and everybody who needs to search the information can search it for their own reasons without costing the company a penny more, said Viviers.

Deployed either in OrcaTecs secure Tier 3 data facility in Atlanta, or behind a clients firewall on the OrcaPod appliance, Echo provides all the analytic and search tools a company would need for sifting through ever-growing email data stores for eDiscovery first-pass review, early case assessment, regulatory compliance, risk management and human resources purposes.

For a flat monthly fee, were not only storing the data, were making it immediately usable and providing an incredibly powerful suite of tools to get to the meat of whats in the data for no extra charge, Viviers explained.

The tools in the Document Decisioning Suite include predictive coding, concept search, analytic tools, visual sonar showing how people in the company interact, and clustering that automatically updates as new information is added to the data collection.

The tools in the OrcaTec Document Decisioning Suite that power Echo were all developed to work together, and include OrcaSearch, OrcaCluster and OrcaPredict. OrcaTecs patent-holding Chief Scientist and CTO Herbert L. Roitblat, Ph.D., who is known as the father of concept search and a pioneer in predictive coding, said he designed Echo to address real problems.

The OrcaTec Document Decisioning Suite continues to offer an innovative and powerful approach for understanding a data collection and making optimal decisions about each document, Roitblat declared. You can still use the tools for eDiscovery or episodic data review. But now, with your email, you dont have to just archive it, you can Echo it!

Atlanta-based OrcaTec delivers products and services for visually, defensibly and automatically revealing information that is precise, insightful and expert-driven from large collections of electronic documents. Beyond keyword searching, the topic-based OrcaTec Document Decisioning Suite is especially useful in eDiscovery, GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance), or anywhere documents have to be identified, categorized or understood. Cut review time from weeks or months to just days, with demonstrably high levels of accuracy and transparency, using predictive coding, concept search, visual clustering and much more for no additional cost. See how OrcaTec is reinventing eDiscovery with all-in-one smarter predictive coding, ECA and review for one flat monthly fee at http://www.OrcaTec.com or by calling 888-355-2200 x.2.

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GL Announces Echo, Delay, and Voice Quality Analysis of Voice Calls in VoIP, TDM, 2Wire, and Mobile Networks

Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (Vocus/PRWEB) March 04, 2011

GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of its newest Echo Measurement Utility Software(EMU) that measures Echo Path Delay (EPD) and Echo Return Loss (ERL) of voice calls. Speaking to reporters, Mr. Robert Bichefsky, Senior Manager, said, Echo can be as simple as sidetone, or more complex such as line, and acoustic echo. The EMU when combined with GLs VQuad, Dual UTA, T1 E1 Analyzers, or Voiceband Analyzer, additional voice quality metrics such as round trip delay (RTD), voice quality, and noise can also be measured.

He added, A voice call may transit a variety of networks Mobile, VoIP, TDM, and others. A typical call can have many of the following characteristics that can affect quality: narrowband (8 kbps) or wideband call (> 64 kbps), end-to-end digital but with D/D conversions (codec conversions), many D/A and A/D conversions, additive noise and/or background noise, speech level variations, variable delay, echo in the form of sidetone, line echo, or acoustic echo, signaling and voiceband conversions that affect DTMF, FAX, and MODEM transmissions, packet delay, loss, sequencing, and duplications.

Mr. Bichefsky explained, To provide a comprehensive assessment of voice quality irrespective of network type, GL has combined various tools together into one platform consisting of VQuad, Dual UTA, USB T1 E1, and WEBViewer. This platform provides the ability to make VoIP, TDM, and Mobile calls from any fixed or mobile location. All interface flexibility is provided (2Wire, 4Wire, VoIP, TDM, and Mobile) within the Dual UTA and USB T1 E1 Analyzer. In addition, VQuad provides algorithms for signaling, voice transmission, and voice quality assessment. WEBViewer provides the central point where voice metrics are stored and displayed through a WEB interface.

Recently, GL introduced Echo Measurement Utility (EMU) software within this architecture to assess sidetone, line, and acoustic echo and corresponding delays. EMU is an offline adjunct analysis application (under control of VQuad) that compares the source and received files to determine echoes and delay of echoes. The EMU provides delay and ERL measurements for all detected echoes, along with an ERL vs Delay plot where each echo is depicted within the plot. One can zoom-in on a particular echo to gauge overall echo impairments. In addition, the application includes signal graphs for source signal, received signal, error signal, and adaptive filter coefficients.

Main Features:

Measures EPD in msec and ERL in dB

Compares source and received files to determine maximum of 4 echoes

Ability to automate the entire test process using VQuad scripting including sending the results to the central database for access via GLs WebViewer

Detailed offline analysis

Supports Line and Acoustic Echo Modes

Graphically displays source signal, received signal, error signal, and adaptive filter coefficients

Allows zoom-in on each graph, and exporting snapshot of these graphs to a file for later analysis

Calculates adaptive filter coefficients and echo characteristics for the error signal

Speaker option to play the audio files (intrusive and non-intrusive)

Option to zoom-in on any particular echo to investigate further

About GL Communications Inc.,

Founded in 1986, GL Communications Inc. is a leading supplier of test, monitoring, and analysis equipment for TDM, Wireless, IP and VoIP networks. Unlike conventional test equipment, GL's test platforms provide visualization, capture, storage, and convenient features like portability, remotability, and scripting.

GLs TDM Analysis & Emulation line of products includes T1, E1, T3, E3, OC-3, OC-12, STM-1, STM-4, analog four-wire, and analog two-wire interface cards, external portable pods, and complete system solutions. Capabilities include voiceband traffic analysis and emulation across all traffic types (voice, digits, tones, fax, modem), all protocols (ISDN, SS7, GR-303, Frame Relay, HDLC, V5.X, ATM, GSM, GPRS, LTE, etc.), and with capacities up to thousands of channels. Our newest products provide astonishing capacity and capture capability up to and including gigabit speeds.

GLs VoIP and IP products generate / analyze thousands of calls and traffic simultaneously with traffic types such as frames, packets, voice files, digits, video, tones, noise, and fax. Almost all codecs are supported including G.711, G.729, AMR, EVRC-A,B,C, GSM, iSAC, and many more. Additional features include visual analysis, real-time listening, and recording. The product line also includes Ethernet / IP Testing capability that simulates and checks frame transport and throughput parameters of Ethernet and IP networks, including delay, errors and other impairments.

GL's Voice Quality Testing (VQT) product line complements all of GL's products. Using ITU-standard algorithms (PAMS, PSQM, and PESQ), GL's VQT provides a widely accepted solution for assessing voice quality in the telecom industry. Voice Quality Testing across multiple networks (T1, E1, T3, E3, OC-3, OC-12, VoIP, Wireless, and Landline) are all available.

GLs Wireless Products perform protocol analysis and voice quality assessment on GSM, CDMA, UMTS, and LTE networks. Connections can be made to any wireless phone with automated call control, GPS mapping and real-time signal measurements.

GLs Echo Canceller testing solutions provide the broadest range of simulation and analysis, including line and acoustic echo. GLs compliance testing per G.168. G.167, and P.340 across TDM, IP, VoIP and Wireless networks is widely accepted in the industry.

GLs wireless VQT solutions help assessing impairments to voice quality such as poor mobile phone quality, voice compression and decompression algorithms, delay, loss and gain in speech levels, noise, acoustic and landline echo, and other distortions are easily assessed and accurately measured.

GLs Handheld data testers can test a wide variety of communications facilities and equipment including T1, fractional T1, E1, fractional E1, T3 and E3 modems, multiplexers, CSU, DSUs, T1 CSUs, DTUs, NTUs and TIUs and more. The testers provide convenience, economy, and portability for almost any interface, including RS232, RS-422, RS-530, X.21, T1, E1, T3, E3, and many others.

GLs Network Surveillance and Monitoring products include Probes for TDM, IP, VoIP, ATM, and Wireless networks. An open standards based approach provides a scalable, feature rich, real-time access to network characteristics. Centralized or distributed access, efficient transport and database loading allow compatibility with 3rd party and standards based monitoring systems.

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