OpenEndpoint(tm) Provides Phone Service to Emerging Third World Nation
Commetrex has been working on IP voice technologies for some time. But the
most important milestone is when it's all integrated to form a working system.
For OpenEndpoint, that happened in the last week of 2002, and in Egypt of all places. Bruce
Adams, our Director, Signal Processing Technologies, had the pleasure of
spending the last half of December in Cairo working closely with our customer
to get Telecom Egypt's buyoff of the system. It should tremendously speed
up the deployment of telephony services to businesses and homes in Cairo since
it effectively turns one standard telephone line into 64 lines (24 non-
blocking) using voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology.
The system interfaces the legacy Telecom Egypt PSTN lines with an IP gateway.
From there calls travel over a low-bandwidth fixed-wireless line. The
wireless-access modem provides a single low-bandwidth (64K) connection to
the Commetrex-designed IP endpoint device. The job of the endpoint device,
then, is to convert the very low-bit rate IP voice (G.723.1) and fax (T.38)
data arriving over the wireless link into the analog format that legacy phones
and fax terminals are capable of handling. Of course, it does the same in
reverse. The essential part of the story is that this technology turns one
line, either wireless or land-line, into 64 lines!
For more information on OpenEndpoint, call Paul Baron at (770)449-7775 x420 or
visit http://www.commetrex.com/products/
algorithms/OpenEndpoint.html
BladeWare(tm) Pirate Featured on the Cover of "CompactPCI Systems Magazine"
January Issue. New Career as "Cover Pirate" in the Offing?
BladeWare(tm), Commetrex' recently introduced blade server-based media-server
framework, is the subject of this month's cover article in "CompactPCI Systems".
Check the article out on page 56 or visit
http://www.compactpci-systems.com/Current%20Issue/CPCI Guide Commetrex.pdf
The cover, which features the BladeWare Pirate, is shown here http://www.commetrex.com
If you're interested in BladeWare give Mike Coffee, the article's author, a
call at (770)449-7775 x310, or e-mail him at sales@commetrex.com.
BladeWare(tm) Makes Debut as Fax-capable Media Server
The first BladeWare application is Surprise! a fax-media-server application.
Other than four licensees of Commetrex' TerminatingT38(tm), none of the media-
server vendors can deliver a fax-capable IP media server. One of those four
has licensed BladeWare, a bundle comprised of OTF® Kernel and OpenMedia(tm),
plus a SIP Resource Service Manager, and a Media Server Command Markup Language
(MSCML) command interface. MSCML does not currently support fax, as it's
designed to allow application servers to control voice-only media servers, so
we're working with two media-server vendors to add fax support to MSCML.
At the same time we add the SIP RSM to OTF Kernel we'll go ahead and add an
H.323 RSM, as we are already shipping H.323 call control with TerminatingT38.
If you're interested in learning more about BladeWare, click on the Pirate on
our home page at http://www.commetrex.com. If you would like to learn more
about the application, e-mail Cliff Schornak, CTO, at Cschornak@commetrex.com.
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Open Telecommunications Framework® Kernel Meets Linux and Solaris
The first licensee of the BladeWare(tm) application described above requires
the system to run on Sun Solaris. As you may know, we're currently shipping
OTF Kernel and OpenMedia(tm) on Windows2000. But the OTF team is now completing
our port to Linux, which will ship later this month. This porting project
has gone very well because we have a great team, and the team has used an
excellent porting tool called Advanced Communications Environment (ACE). If
you're developing products that must be delivered on multiple operating
systems, and you haven't yet taken a look at ACE you might check it out.
So in 2Q03, OTF Kernel and OpenMedia will be available on Windows2000, Linux,
and Solaris.
If you would like to learn more about this project or the availability of
newer versions, give Paul Baron a call at (770)449-7775 x420. Paul's e-mail
address is pbaron@commetrex.com.
"Emerging Architectures in Media Servers": Panel at Spring VON 2003
Have you attended one of Jeff Pulver's Voice on the Net (VON) events? If
you're interested in packet telephony, this is a must show. The next one
(we'll be exhibiting) is in San Jose, March 31 through April 3.
At VON Fall 2002, Cliff Schornak, Commetrex' CTO, hosted a panel, "Media-Aware
Features in IP Gateways". Senior people from Cisco, Netergy, Sonus, and Surf,
as well as Cliff, gave fascinating presentations. The panel was very well
attended and extremely interesting, as each panelist had a different
perspective on the use of relay technologies in various gateway applications.
At VON Spring 2003, Commetrex will host another panel "Emerging Architectures
in Media Servers". The next issue of The Commetrex Outlook will introduce
the illustrious panel, but in the meantime, why not register to attend
( http://www.pulver.com/von/ )
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