Basics of Echo Cancellation
Telephone network made up of two major components:
- 4-wire or toll network
- 2-wire or local network
2-wire to 4-wire conversion process (using transformers) leaks signals creating echo
Round trip echo path delay can range from few milliseconds to hundreds of milliseconds (satellite hops)
Echo Cancellation is required to suppress the echo and maintain a clean channel
Echo Cancellers are adaptive filters which model the echo path to generate an estimated echo and subtract it from the real signal.