We have optional telephone interfaces, Analog (PSTN) or Digital telephone, which are installed in the Octopus. Digital Telephone Interface (DTI) connects through the headset jack on your telephone so there are no compatibility issues communicating with your phone system. The DTI would be used for an IP phone system as well.

Each Octopus unit has 4 XLR inputs for microphones, sound reinforcement or auxiliary. However, the Octopus has unlimited daisy chain capability so you can link units together for as many inputs as you need.

Yes, 3V and 24V phantom power is available.

Yes. You can connect speakers which have their own power source or you can get our optional 40 Watt, 4-output power amplifier installed in the Octopus.

The Octopus is compatible with all Crestron and AMX controllers that connect via RS232 cable. You can also control the Octopus by either downloading the soft dialer from our website and running that on a computer (or a Windows based tablet) or using our handheld dial pad which is included with all units that have a PSTN (analog telephone) interface.

While our software utilities (Setup Wizard, Recording Utility, Soft Dialer, etc…) can only be run on Windows & Linux based systems, once the unit is set up you can connect the Octopus with any computer, including Mac based, for VoIP (Skype, Vidyo, etc…) sessions. Mac OS compatible software utilities will soon be available.