SOFTWARE ROIP GATEWAY
More dispatchers on every radio gateway, with no new hardware
omniGate is the software gateway for omnicore Enterprise Dispatch Management System. It sits between your consoles and your Omnitronics IPR and DRG radio gateways, so up to 128 operators can share each gateway over a single low-bandwidth stream.
128 consoles per gateway
Up to 128 omnicore console connections on every logical gateway, instead of about 12 on the hardware alone.
128 gateway channels
One omniGate server handles up to 128 IPR and DRG gateway channels.
One stream per gateway
Every console is concentrated into a single RTP stream of about 80 kbps to each gateway.
100% software
Runs on Ubuntu Server as a virtual machine or on a dedicated server, with no gateway hardware to add.
What omniGate does
Break the hardware gateway connection limit
Omnitronics IPR and DRG hardware gateways are built for smaller systems and typically accept around 12 console connections each (up to 48 on an IPR400 S2). When more operators need the same channel at once, or the gateway sits behind a low-bandwidth link, that ceiling becomes the system limit. Multicast can help, but many networks don't support it.
omniGate removes the limit. It runs on a server next to omnicore, takes the SIP and RTP connection from every console and presents each hardware gateway with one static stream. Radio-to-radio patching happens inside the server, so patch groups of more than four radios work even on networks that don't allow multicast.
Need a direct connection to a digital radio network?
omniGate connects consoles to Omnitronics hardware gateways. For a direct software connection to the radio network itself, choose the gateway built for it:
- omniGateP25 – P25 trunked systems over CSSI
- omniGateP25DFSI – P25 conventional base stations and repeaters over DFSI
- omniGateDMR – DMR Tier 2 and Tier 3 systems over AIS
- omniGateAIR – Airbus Agnet broadband push-to-talk to P25 and DMR (coming soon)
- Tetra GatewayDM – DAMM TetraFlex networks
How it works
One server between your consoles and your radio gateways
Consoles connect to omniGate by SIP, the way they would connect to a hardware gateway. omniGate holds a single static connection to each gateway, mixes and arbitrates the audio, and carries the radio control traffic in both directions. A second server with the same gateways gives the consoles somewhere to fail over to.
Consoles connect by SIP
Each omnicore console establishes its own SIP and RTP connection to the logical gateway, from anywhere on the network.
Gateways see one stream
Every gateway receives a single static RTP stream of about 80 kbps, which also lightens the load on the gateway itself.
Patching stays in the server
Patch groups that live entirely in omniGate never leave the host, so they work on networks that block multicast.
Capabilities
What omniGate gives your dispatch system
Fan-out to 128 consoles
Up to 128 console connections per logical gateway. omnicore needs no extra license modules to connect.
Built for low-bandwidth links
Remote sites see one stream of about 80 kbps per gateway rather than one per operator, so satellite and microwave links stay usable.
Radio-to-radio patching
Unicast patch groups of four talk paths and multicast groups of up to 32, routed inside the server. Patching works with all gateway firmware, including older versions.
Automatic failover
A secondary omniGate with the same gateways takes over if the primary becomes unreachable, and consoles stay on it until a manual failback.
Works with your existing fleet
Analog radio through IPR110+ and IPR400 S2, digital radio through DRG100. Group, individual and broadcast calls, emergency, location, text and status messaging pass straight through.
Managed from a browser
Configure, back up and monitor from a web interface with HTTPS and SNMP, so no Linux skills are needed day to day.
Deployment
Runs where your dispatch platform runs
omniGate is a Linux service. Run it as a guest on the omnicore host, on your own hypervisor or on a server sized by Omnitronics for the number of gateways and consoles.
Server
- Ubuntu Server, on a virtual machine or a dedicated server
- Can share a physical host with the omnicore server virtual machine
- Supplied by Omnitronics as a ready-to-run server, or installed on your own hardware
Supported gateways
- IPR110+ – analog radio, one channel
- IPR400 S2 – analog radio, four channels
- DRG100 – digital radio, one channel
- Earlier IPR100, IPR400 and DRG200i gateways
Resilience
- Secondary omniGate server for automatic console failover
- Configuration backup and restore from the web interface
Ready to put more operators on your radio gateways?
Tell us how many consoles and gateways you run and a specialist will size the omniGate server and license to match. New to Omnitronics dispatch? See omnicore Enterprise Dispatch Management System, or become an Omnitronics partner.
