Commetrex’ business is to develop, produce, and market business-enabling
technology products for the developer of digital-media telephony systems. Our
purpose is to help the developer to get his product to market quicker and with
less investment. Commetrex does this by providing the hard-core technologies
that are common to all multi-line integrated-media systems, eliminating the
OEM’s need to spend the millions of dollars and years of market-entry delay that
would result from in-house development. Our mission is to bring the
value-creation efficiencies that characterize the Wintel business ecosystem to the
telecommunications industry.
Attendees search for the best and brightest new products at the Voice on the Net Show.
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VON attendees visit Commetrex' Booth at the Spring Show in San Jose.
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Many of the finest names in telecom equipment use Commetrex’ technology to
develop products such as media gateways and servers for the access network
and integrated communications servers for the enterprise.
Commetrex' development lab becomes a hot spot during the integration phase
of a large product such as the recent marriage between the MSP-H8 and OTF® Kernel.
Commetrex was founded by Mike Coffee and Cliff Schornak. Coffee and
Schornak formed Commetrex to bring media and applications integration to the
enterprise and carrier-equipment markets. Schornak serves as Chief Technical
Officer while Coffee serves as Chairman and CEO. The founders are part of a
seasoned five-person management team, four of whom have served as CEO at
telecom companies.
All high-density integrated-media digital-media telephony systems include six
major elements: the chassis with a host computer, media-processing hardware
resources, media-stream software environment, media-processing technologies,
telephony middleware, and, finally, the application. Commetrex provides all but
the chassis and computer, and the application.
Open Telecommunications Framework® Kernel (OTF) is the industry’s only
telephony middleware offered as a licensed component; OpenMedia™ is the
industry’s only standards-based media-stream framework. These two products
are integrated to comprise BladeWare™, the only host-media-processing system
platform to offer terminating T.38 IP fax relay. Commetrex also has a
comprehensive product line of signal-processing software products and digital-
media telephony resource boards.
Commetrex’ software products—OTF Kernel, OpenMedia, and a suite of media
technologies—are used by OEMs to develop enterprise and carrier-equipment
systems. Since the Company’s focus is on the signal processing of a call’s
media stream, these systems are at the network’s edge and the enterprise
premises. So any developer of a telecommunications product that processes a
call’s media stream is a prospective Commetrex customer.
The MSP Media Gateway hardware products, which provide media-processing
and network-interface resources, focus the common software products on
particular markets. The MSP-H8 cuts the price of low-density enterprise systems
in half, while the MSP-320 scales to 120 ports in one PCI slot.
Commetrex’ MSP-640 and MSP-1200C PCI and hot-swap CompactPCI boards,
currently in development, bring densities of 1000 ports to the PCI form factor and
double that number for CompactPCI. These products are used in media servers
and gateways.
Software Design Engineer analyzes a modem wave form.
Commetrex’ four product categories—media-processing resource hardware,
media-stream software environments, media-processing technologies, and
telephony middleware— are imbedded in every multi-line integrated-media
system. Other manufacturers offer them as part of an integrated closed-
architecture system platform that cannot be modified by the OEM. But
Commetrex offers these system elements as separate products that can be used
individually or part of an integrated platform. And, source code is licensed for
each product. This combination of modularity and source-code licensing are the
keys to “captive-technology jail” that Commetrex hands each customer.
Commetrex is a leading member of Texas Instruments’ Third-Party Developer
Network. Commetrex offers all of its media-technology products in highly
optimized versions for TI’s extensive product line. For example, Commetrex’
implementation of the G.726 waveform coder and the V.17 fax modem are the
most efficient implementations in the industry.
Commetrex works closely with TI sales to make sure telecom system developers
have the best solution available for their product-development needs.
Commetrex and the other members of the MSP Consortium have released
for comment a draft of the Media Stream Processor (M.100) Specification.
The MSP Consortium is soliciting support for this specification from other
communications system-resource vendors that want to be involved in developing
a specification to lower the barriers to market entry for companies wishing
to develop integrated-media Open Communications system-resource boards.
A copy of the specification can be obtained from the MSP Consortium’s web
site.
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