TrFO - Transcoder Free Operation

By Pramod Kumar - October 17, 2012

In Early legacy telephone network, A call between the two mobiles involved with two transcoding
function at both the end which decrease the voice quality. The Transcoding Function done by the
TRAU (Transcoding and Rate Adaptation Unit) to compress and decompress the speech.

Transcoder Free Operation (TrFO) is transport of compressed speech, which

eliminates unnecessary coding and decoding of the signals when both end uses the same
codecs. TrFO utilizes out of band signaling capabilities that include the ability to determine the
negotiated codec type to be used at the two end nodes. If the two end nodes are capable of the
same codec operations, it may be possible to traverse the entire packet network using only the
compressed speech (of the preferred codec). TrFO is basic function of codec Management.

Following are the benefits of achieving the TrFO:

1.) Improve the voice quality because of elimination of coding and decoding of suppressed codecs.
2.) We can optimize the resources by skipping the transcodes at both ends.
3.) We can increase the bandwidth in the Core Network.
4.) Increase the transmission delay by skipping the compression and decompression to G.711
codec.

It can improve the voice quality and above features using the TrFo and TFO simultaneously.