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FaxLogic™ Wins With

FaxLogic offers its enterprise customers a unique cloud-based way to outsource the enterprise fax server using BladeWare andBladeWare Fax Media...

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The Force Awakens

By visiting both booths, you can learn how BladeWare can provide necessary solutions for OEMs, and how NetGen can help...

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Call-Progress Analysis

Every time we place a call, we instinctively perform call-progress analysis (CPA). We listen for dial tone before dialing, detect...

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FoIP Pioneers

A new BladeWare customer—an enterprise-fax OEM—reported that one of his end-users was dissatisfied with their fax server’s performance as they...

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FoIP Problems?

Imagine … or, perhaps, you’ve even been there. You’re having an FoIP problem so you run a test by sending,...

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We Make FoIP Work

Commetrex isn’t on the lips of every telecom CEO, but its technology is what’s making FoIP work.  Since 1998, Commetrex’...

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See Us at ITEXPO West in Austin

Hope you’re going to ITEXPO West 2012 in Austin (Oct. 2-5). We’ll be there in booth 722. If you’re an...

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The State of FoIP: 3Q2012

In 3Q2012, the state of FoIP is good. Why? Because the right things are happening. In the enterprise, FoIP has...

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More from the Trenches

Continuing in reverse-chronological order from March 8

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Reporting from the Trenches in the FoIP Wars

What is the key to FoIP success when using SIP trunking? First, you must have FoIP endpoints that really work....

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So, What Is a Fax, Anyway?

So, what is a fax, anyway? Well, we all know what a fax is, but can we settle on a...

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Smart ATA: It’s Just Amazing

We were in Miami Beach last week at ITEXPO. Great duty. The weather let us know why folks go there...

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What Does Great OEM Developer Support Look Like?

What does great OEM developer support look like? Here’s but a small sample. It’s a response by our support guy...

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The Rodney Dangerfield of Technologies?

Fax just don’t get no respect! Every business uses fax, but, until recently, making FoIP work has been, at best,...

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ITEXPO West 2011

Just returned from ITEXPO. It was in blazing-hot Austin, TX, which is a very cool town. And it was very...

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The Smart ATA Story: Solving Three Big FoIP Problems

If you read our newsletters, you may remember that Commetrex has developed a new FoIP technology, Smart FoIP, which, among...

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FoIP Needs ENUM!

Two years ago we did some serious outbound testing with the cooperation of Copia International, one of our enterprise-fax server...

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FoIP Presentation at ITEXPO East 2011

Here’s a summary of my talk at ITEXPO given on 2/3/11. “Telefacsimile” went commercial 150 years ago. Seems like yesterday,...

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Cut the Big Guys Some Slack

In marketing, it’s axiomatic that the market leader enjoys the highest margins, but it doesn’t end there. It extends to...

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Smart FoIP in Gateways

The wide-scale deployment of V.34 fax terminals is making the design of FoIP-capable IP-PSTN gateways much more of a challenge...

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T.38’s Not the Problem!

Whenever I hear someone tell me that T.38 isn’t capable of bringing reliable real-time fax to IP-carrier networks, I resist...

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The Skinny on FoIP for TMCnet.com

I was recently interviewed by Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director at TMCnet.com (Technology Marketing Corporation). TMC is “The World’s Largest...

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What Gives with V.34 Fax?

Currently, there are not many V.34-capable gateways available, and only one V.34-capable FoIP fax server. This is so despite the...

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What’s the Big Deal with FoIP Interop Anyway?

I recently shared with you that the industry’s deployment of FoIP is proceeding in phases. Phase I, which extended from...

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An Industry First: Commetrex Enhances BladeWare with G.711 Pass-Through Support for V.34

Commetrex, inventor of T.38 fax termination now used in media servers everywhere, continues its record of innovation with the announcement...

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Appliances … Appliances!

What’s going on? Suddenly, is seems that nearly all of our enterprise-fax OEMs are using BladeWare as the platform for...

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What’s a Fax, Anyway?

Quick! Define the term “fax”. Well, if you really try, you may find that defining fax is a little like...

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The Long-Fax-Failure Problem Revealed Commetrex Solves Problem That Has Plagued the Industry

In my last blog post, I explained how slow signaling in carrier networks can result in the failure of a...

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The Slow-Network-Signaling Problem Revealed!

All T.38 implementations are the same if they conform to the T.38 recommendation, right? Wrong! You could easily have a...

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I Confess … I’m a Stickler

A stickler—someone who cringes when exposed to bad grammar and punctuation, and someone everyone hates. You know the type: we’re...

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Another Long Tail?

Your product plans call for the development of a product that requires multi-channel media-processing resources. You’ve looked at the market...

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What Is Experience Worth?

Commetrex has been developing and marketing fax-technology products for over 15 years, and BladeWare, our HMP media server has been...

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