Commetrex Brings Telephony to Tensilica's Xtensa Configurable Processors
Commetrex and Tensilica have formed a technology and
marketing alliance to provide users of the Tensilica
Xtensa 7 and Xtensa LX2 cores with voice and fax
media technologies. Commetrex' industry-leading
fax technologies are now available, along with the
OpenEndpoint package for terminating IP voice, to
give the ASIC designer all the media technologies
needed for products that require the termination and
relay of TDM and IP in low-density endpoints.
Some of the Commetrex technologies now available to the Tensilica OEM now include:
- A comprehensive voice-fax subsystem for the MFP
- Fax Modems (V.21, V.27, V.29, V.17,and V.34)
- T.30 protocol engine
- Image conversion library
- Fax Relay: T.38, I.366.2, FRF.11
- TerminatingT38
- Multi-Modal Terminating Fax (MMTF)
- OpenEndpoint
The configurability of the Xtensa cores and the matching
software development environment allow
designers to optimize the processor for unique system
requirements in a fraction of the time it takes to design
and verify RTL. Combine this with Commetrex' field-proven
telephony technologies and your product is on the
market before product management can say: "what's
taking so long?"
For additional information, contact Tom Ray at
440-449-7775 x340 or tray@commetrex.com. For more
information about Commetrex' products, visit our website
at www.commetrex.com. For additional information
about Tensilica, visit their website at www.tensilica.com.
A Need Met: An Open-Source VoiceXML Interpreter for Telecom
Today, BladeWare is widely deployed as a fax media
server. But nearly all of our customers have asked when
we'll have voice support available. Moreover, due to
consolidations and product withdrawals, the media-server
market is in need of an open-source VoiceXML interpreter.
Commetrex is filling the product and market need with
our latest product, BladeWareVXML Interpreter. As
announced at VON Spring 2007, we will make
BladeWareVXML Interpreter source code available
on sourceforge.net as an open-source GPL
download in early Q3.
A commercial version, with additional enhancements
and support options, will be available from the Commetrex
website in mid-Q3. The interpreter is an updated version of
OpenVXi from Carnegie Mellon University, originally
developed by Speechworks (Scansoft), with a number
of enhancements made to the code, including a DTMF
recognizer and a re-definition of the ASR/TTS layers to
facilitate MRCP implementations.
BladeWareVXML Interpreter is the first product of a
comprehensive open-source VoiceXML browser
product offering, which will be available in late Q4.
The addition of a VoiceXML capability to BladeWare
is part of our overall development plan for BladeWare
to add the voice component of the IMS-specified Media
Resource Function Controller (MRFC) capability to our
existing BladeWare fax MRF to form a comprehensive
voice-fax implementation of the Media Resource
Function (MRF). Commetrex' VoiceXML offerings will
be available both as stand-alone open-source components
and as a fully integrated "voice browser."
To read to press release, click here.
And for more information about BladeWareVXML or any
Commetrex product, contact Tom Ray at, 770-449-7775 x340
or send him an email at tray@commetrex.com.
Iperia Chooses BladeWare™ for ActiveEdge
When Iperia needed a fax server for ActiveEdge, its
component architecture for service networks, they came
to Commetrex and chose BladeWare Fax Media Server.
Iperia's ActivEdge Fax enables subscribers to have faxes
delivered directly to their unified mailbox. Subscribers can
store fax messages, control when and where faxes are
printed, send faxes from their mailbox to another
subscriber's mailbox or e-mail address, and send
faxes to traditional fax machines. Iperia chose
BladeWare Fax Media Server as a component
of ActivEdge because it supports their open, distributed
network architecture and the industry-standard
protocols that ActivEdge uses.
BladeWare, an all-software media server, supports
fax send-receive using both T.38 and G.711
pass-through faxes in SIP-based service networks,
such as IMS. T.38 is the industry standard for the IP
transport of faxes in real time. Since not all gateways
and IP networks support T.38. But, the ability to support G.711
pass-through fax is important for a fax media server.
As many of our loyal Outlook subscribers know,
BladeWare is an open-architecture media server
that allows developers to use the BladeWare APIs
to develop proprietary applications. BladeWare is
also available with ready-to-deploy applications,
such as Fax Media Server. FMS turns a BladeWare
system into a network appliance that is IMS ready.
This means that FMS is an IMS media-resource function
(MRF) that is directed by application servers, such as
ActivEdge Application Server, via the SIP protocol.
To read the joint Commetrex/Iperia press release
click here.
And for more information on BladeWare or
any other Commetrex product solutions, contact
Tom Ray at 770-449-7775 x340 or sent him an
e-mail at tray@commetrex.com.
|
|
Looking for a low-cost 4-8 port analog PSTN network-interface resource? We've got it!
Telecom system developers and OEMs will be
pleased to learn the new MSP-H8 FX S/O PCI board
will be available from Commetrex during the second
quarter 2007. The PCI board is a 4-, 6-, or 8-line analog
PSTN network-interface resource for the
BladeWare media server or as a hardware-only
product for the OEM. The MSP-H8 FX S/O
is intended for use in HMP systems that benefit
from the high MIPS of today's computers and that
require support for both office and station interfaces
on the same board.
The MSP-H8 FX S/O is designed for use in HMP
systems. Although the board's TI TMS320C5409
DSP is primarily used as an I/O processor and to
manage the trunk interfaces, it can also support
on-board echo cancellation and filtering. But the
OEM can cost reduce low-density systems by using
the host MIPS to do the heavy lifting of call-stream
media processing. Moore's Law has held for decades,
but, by comparison, the MIPS needed to process a
telephony media stream have only modestly increased,
making host MIPS essentially free. This product empowers
the OEM to take advantage of these economies, yet
support the most demanding algorithms, such as
Commetrex' V.34 fax modem.
The MSP-H8 FX S/O includes four office interfaces (FXO)
on the main board. There are two two-port daughterboard
sites for either office or station interfaces, giving the OEM
the option of supporting voice or fax terminals "behind"
the server. Terminating and relay functions to and from
the station and office ports can be easily implemented.
Pricing begins at $495 for the four-port board; the two-port
daughterboards are $98 each. Commetrex also offers an
embedded-developer's SDK for the OEM that just needs a
high-performance PCM interface board. However, for
participating in our beta program, we are waiving the
per-port software fee for the four-port version with V.17
fax support and halving the H8's Embedded SDK for the
OEM.
The beta program is limited to the first 15
participants, so please contact Tom Ray at
770-449-7775 x340 or tray@commetrex.com to learn
more and reserve your place in the program. (See here.)
When Will We See the Last Gateway?
So, what's Commetrex' CEO been thinking about lately?
SIP trunking, what else? And it's the subject of his
latest CEO letter, now posted in the "About Us" section
of our Website.
As you know, SIP trunking eliminates gateways.
But when it comes to technical inertia, telecom
can't be beat. So gateways aren't not going away anytime
soon. But we are seeing some movement, and
the new SIPconnect
recommendations providing the much of the driver.
In 2004, Cbeyond Communications led Avaya, Broadsoft,
Centerpoint Technologies, Cisco, and Mitel to form
the SIPconnect initiative. Their objective was to
improve interoperability between SIP-based premises
systems and SIP-enabled service providers to enable
premises-based business systems to place and
accept calls to and from the PSTN without gateways.
The recommendation, which is available for download
from www.sipforum.org, points out that all the
necessary IETF RFCs needed for SIP trunking already
exist, but the "sheer number of these standards
documents, service providers, and equipment
manufacturers have no clear 'master reference' that
outlines which standards they must specifically
support in order to ensure success."
Want more? Read Mike Coffee's latest
CEO Letter on our website www.commetrex.com.
|
