What About the Framework Software?
In 1994 the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG)
published the CompactPCI standard, which served notice that
a value-adding market structure was coming to the
network-equipment market, just as it had to the enterprise market,
and the PC market before that. Today, PICMG is developing a
new series of standards called AdvancedTCA (Advanced
Telecommunications Computing Architecture). ATCA holds
the promise of largely obviating the need for equipment
manufacturers to invest the millions required to develop and
qualify hardware that essentially performs the same functions
as that of dozens of other vendors.
But what about the software? Why hasn't it been the subject
of standardization? Protocols are standardized. The hardware
is standardized. What about the software? Much of the
software that underlies the top-level application, such as
telephony middleware and media-processing frameworks,
performs non-differentiating functions, and can be the subject
of at least de facto standardization.
For years the digital-media telephony OEM has been offered
licensed media-processing technology for use on DSPs.
But the system framework, the biggest cost component of a
high-capacity integrated-media system, has not been available
as vendor- and resource-independent licensed software.
Commetrex' Open Telecommunications Framework
Kernel (OTF Kernel) is the system framework software
that integrates the disparate system-service entities,
signaling, and media-processing subsystems into a
cohesive system, allowing the OEM to save several million
dollars in development cost and years of time-to-market
delay.
So, if you're looking at any of the many CompactPCI
or ATCA boards on the market to shorten your
time-to-money, take the logical next step and look at
cutting another $1,000,000 off your development costs
by licensing Commetrex' Open Telecommunications
Framework Kernel. Check it out here,
or contact Mike Coffee at 770-449-7775 X310
or mcoffee@commetrex.com.
New Fax Support for Enterprise Server Developers
Commetrex Corporation, well known for its innovations in fax
technology, including the invention of terminating T.38, will
announce the "Fax Triangle" at VON Spring 2006. The Fax Triangle
is licensed technology that provides the developer of enterprise
servers and PBXs unprecedented functionality.
Today's enterprise servers are being designed to inherently
support not just PBX functions, but voice and fax messaging.
Frequently, voice support extends beyond messaging to include
conferencing and voice-based information services (IVR). Fax
support goes beyond traditional fax-server functions to include
least-cost routing. Fax Triangle provides unprecedented support
for least-cost-routing and terminations in systems that support both
PSTN and IP networks.
Using one leg of the Fax Triangle, the IP-networked distributed
enterprise can use T.38 fax relay to send faxes in real time between
offices without them being routed over the PSTN. The second leg
of the triangle allows the system to terminate faxes between itself
and internal or PSTN-connected fax terminals. And the third leg
uses Commetrex' TerminatingT38 to terminate (send-receive) faxes
that are routed over the IP network.
This means an enterprise server, or even a stand-alone access
device, can terminate and relay faxes on either or both of PSTN
and IP networks.
To learn more about the Fax Triangle, call Alex Adams at
770-449-7775 X320 or shoot him an e-mail at
aadams@commetrex.com.
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The End of Telephony?
There he goes again. Our CEO has posted his latest quarterly
musings on our industry. He says we will soon see the end of
telephony history. Do you agree?
After a 13-decade run, telephony as a separate industry will
cease to exist within the next 15 years. Bell patented the telephone
in 1876. Since telegraphy predated telephony by about 30 years,
in a sense, data networking predated voice. But, just like the
telegraph, telephony required a specific physical plant comprised
primarily of switchboards, wires, and poles. Telephone companies
had to acquire rights-of-way. People (switchboard operators)
handled call routing. Eventually, the single-call-per-wire network
was replaced by today's time-division multiplexed (TDM) network.
But TDM is still telephony-specific, so we still need telephone companies.
But not for too much longer. See if you agree or disagree with him.
To read his latest quarterly letter visit http://www.commetrex.com
and click on "About Us."
Join Commetrex at VON Spring 2006 in San Jose March 14 - 17
Now in its 10th year, VON is the premiere tradeshow for VoIP, and
VoIP is hot. For some time now, you couldn't pick up an
industry journal without reading about it. Then it was business
journals. And now it's even the newspaper. That makes VON
the place to be. If you're part of the telecom industry or just need
the latest information for whatever reason, you need to be there.
And if you're there, you should visit Commetrex in booth 130
(left wall, middle isle) to learn about BladeWare, the industry's
most advanced HMP (all-software) media server, HMPturbo,
and the "Fax Triangle".
As a VON exhibitor Commetrex is pleased to offer you a $200
savings on the price of either the VON Package or the Full
Conference registration. Along with our discount offer on VON
conference registration we are also offering a limited number
of FREE Expo-Only passes to our customers.
To benefit from these discount offers, register online to
attend VON Spring 2006 (http://www.von.com/register) by
March 13, and make sure you enter COMMETREX in the
Priority Code field. Once you have entered the priority
code, the discounted conference rates (and the FREE
Expo-Only pricing) will display.
By the way, check out our CEO's podcast interview
on VON Radio. You will be informed and entertained
by Mike Coffee's lively and timely comments on
Commetrex products and services. Just follow the
URL to access the interview.
http://podcasts.pulvermedia.com/blog/
Questions: Give Alex Adams a call at 770-449-7775 X320
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