The Title III
Digital Recording System is an invention to satisfy the
digital recording requirements of court ordered wiretapping in accordance with newly generated legislation (CALEA, the Communication Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act), and to replace inefficient Title III
analog recording techniques with
digital recording on inexpensive
Compact Disc (CD) media. Title III refers to a generally accepted reference for legal wiretapping (telephone intercepts). The Title III
Digital Recording System is a recorder that is compliant with requirements set forth in the U.S. Code Title 18, sections 2510 et al. It provides a complete capability to support legally authorized wiretaps, and provides many features to assist the Law
Enforcement professional in conducting the wiretap recording operation. The Title III
Digital Recording System uniquely applies conventional
Compact Disc (CD) recording techniques to specific Law
Enforcement problems. The Title III Digital
Recording System allows the Law Enforcement professional to
record high-fidelity intercepts on
digital recording media, vs. analog tape recordings. It provides for 20 hours of recording on a single CD media. The recording technique utilizes UDF (Universal Data Formatting) on the CD's to optimize
record time and
data integrity. Three digital recordings are performed simultaneously: Primary Evidence CD,
backup Evidence CD, and Working CD. The CDs can be played back in conventional CD R / W players supporting the Universal
Data Format using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) playback
software.