MSP H-8 Beta Launch Scheduled for July 15
Commetrex' MSP H-8 Media Gateway(tm) sets the standard for affordability
for digital-media enterprise servers since it uses host
MIPS for media processing. Its attractive $125 per voice-fax
port price in high volume is gleaning attention from the
industry. After 15 years on the market, the incumbent's fax
board still costs $400-800 per port, high enough to put LAN-
based fax servers out of reach for the small-to-medium-sized
business. It shouldn't be that way and Commetrex is doing some-
thing about it. Want to try it and OTF®, our S.100-conforming
telephony middleware?
Check it out at
http://www.commetrex.com/products/
harware/MSP-H8/MSPH8.html
and give us a call at +1(770)449-7775 ext. 420.
Cisco Completes T.38 Interoperability Testing
Cisco first released its ITU T.38 fax relay to the International
Organization for Standardization (IOS) over two years ago. This
functionality is available in numerous Cisco products including
the AS5400/AS5350, AS5850 and the 26/36x0 gateways. Cisco has
numerous T.38 production networks in deployment worldwide in
both service-provider and enterprise environments. These net-
works interconnect with various partner and third-party devices
including gateways, gatekeepers and many types of customer-
premises equipment. Because of Cisco's early market entry and
widespread deployments, interoperability with its T.38 is
considered by many service providers to be a requirement.
Although Commetrex, in cooperation with mutual customers, completed
interoperability testing with individual Cisco gateways last year,
in May, Cisco corporate and Commetrex completed interop testing of
the Cisco product line in Commetrex' T.38 Interop Lab. "As expected,
the Cisco Interop testing went very smoothly", said Mike Wells, the
Lab's lead engineer.
Commetrex opened the T.38 Interoperability Testing Lab in January
of this year. Testing is offered to any and all equipment
developers with fielded gateways interested in achieving
industry-wide interoperability of T.38. And it's absolutely
free.
For detailed testing results and other information on the T.38
Lab, visit http://www.commetrex.com/
t38lab_about.html.
Interested? Contact Mike Coffee at sales@commetrex.com or
+1(770)449-7775 x 310. There is no cost involved.
aTelo Offers Innovative Board-less Media Processing Using Commetrex' TerminiatingT38(tm)
aTelo has developed an innovative packet-based, software-only
media processor that dramatically simplifies the development
and deployment of next-generation telephony services.
As reported in the November 26, 2001 issue of Communications
Convergence.com, The aTelo Media Server(aMS)(tm) is a unique
SIP endpoint capable of processing voice and fax telephony data
without the need for specialized DSP-resource cards. In addition
to the ability to terminate T.38 real-time IP-based fax, the aMS
provides a comprehensive set of call-control and voice-processing
functions, including audio recording/ playback, DTMF, speech
recognition, text to speech, and conferencing. All aMS
functionality can be accessed using standard Web development
tools, allowing the large community of Web developers to
leverage their skills to create feature-rich telephony services.
aTelo believes that its software-only approach to media
processing is the direction in which the industry must migrate
as it leverages advances in voice-over-IP technologies and CPU
design to deliver more powerful media processing, while greatly
expanding the universe of developers who can build the value-
added applications of the future.
"We've developed a software-only media processor that processes
IP media streams on standard Intel and Sun servers to make
voice and fax functions available from a Web-development
environment", said aTelo President, Huan Le. "We partnered with
Commetrex, licensing their TerminatingT38 solution to provide
the aMS terminating-fax function.
TerminatingT38 is Commetrex' successful union of two ITU fax-
protocol engines, T.30 Terminating-fax protocol and T.38 real-
time IP fax relay, winner of Computer Telephony Magazine's CT
EXPO 2001 Best of Show award. T.38 specifies the IP-based
protocol normally used in IP gateways to achieve robust fax
transmissions between PSTN-based fax terminals connected to
the public network.
For information on aTelo's aMS, visit http://www.atelo.com.
To learn more about TerminatingT38, visit
http://www.commetrex.com/products/
algorithms/TT38PB.html
or contact Mike Coffee at sales@commetrex.com or +1(770)449-7775
ext. 310.
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Going to Fall VON 2002? Don't Miss: Media Matters: The Pros and Cons of Media-Aware Technology in Media Gateways
This conference session will be one of many offered at
Fall VON 2002, to be held in Atlanta, GA, Oct. 7-10.
Moderated by Commetrex' CTO, Cliff Schornak, the pro and cons
of fax and data modem relay in media gateways will be debated
by a celebrity panel of industry leaders from Cisco, Sonus,
Surf, & Netergy.
So what's the debate? Well, developers of access equipment
and gateways don't tell their service-provider customers "your
subscribers can't use their dial-up modems or fax terminals
with this product". But just how well do the equipment and
the IP network being used transport these media? Drop a voice
packet and the ear can't tell, but a high-speed analog modem
may drop to a lower data rate or disconnect, and the fax image
can get messy. We all know a developer can't use low-bit-rate
vocoders with modem calls, but is G.711 the answer? Are
results dependent on network performance? What about QOS? Why
do some gateways include T.38 and some do not? What about
V.MoIP? Do we need it, or is it moot? This panel, comprised
of experts from the gateway and modem-technology fields, will
explore the relevancy of relay engines for fax and data-modem
transport over IP networks.
For Fall VON 2002 registration, visit http://www.pulver.com.
Commetrex Announces OpenEnd(tm) IP Endpoint Reference Design
Commetrex is making its IP-endpoint technology suite available
as licensed software to developers of voice-fax IP endpoint
devices. The product, known as OpenEnd(tm), is suitable for
integrated-access devices and PSTN-IP gateways that require
POTS support. Since OpenEnd is integrated with OpenMedia(tm),
our exclusive media-processing environment, and our POTS-
interface reference design, the technology can be easily
evaluated using Commetrex' MSP-H8 analog interface PCI card,
which offers both Foreign Exchange Station (FXS) and Foreign
Exchange Office (FXO) line interfaces. The system, available
integrated or any combination of system elements, can be
licensed in either source or object code.
"We are pleased to deliver this package to our first customer,"
said Bruce Adams, Commetrex' Director, Signal Processing Technology.
"Our customer's multi-tenant gateway is comprised of his hardware,
which uses the TI TMS320C6205 DSP as the only processor to handle
12 non-blocking channels, and OpenEnd. Since one of the available
versions of OpenMedia and our media technologies is optimized for
the TI 'C6000 family, integration was nearly a drop-in exercise.
And since OpenMedia is based on the MSP Consortium's M.100
specification, our customer can easily add his own or third-party
media technologies to his system." http://www.msp.org
System elements included in the package:
- OpenMedia multi-channel, integrated-media software environment
- FXS/FXO POTS line-control software
- Call-stream classifier
- DTMF, call-progress analysis
- Caller-number delivery (North America and ETSI)
- G.711, G.726 vocoders
- Optional G.723.1 and G.729a/b
- Fax modems (V.21, V.27ter, V.29, V.17)
- T.38 fax relay
- VoIP buffer management
Contact Mike Coffee at sales@commetrex.com or
+1(770) 449-7775 ext. 310 for more information.
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