Lawful Intercept Added to BladeWare™
Commetrex is now offering PowerIntercept(tm) for immediate shipment.
PowerIntercept is a focused lawful-intercept (LI) configuration of
BladeWare(tm), our host-signal-processing IP platform, and the
appropriate media-processing technologies. This value-adding
platform gives the OEM an open, scalable software product that
provides for the monitoring and recording of IP-based voice and
fax call streams. The product targets the developer of LI systems
for national security agencies, law-enforcement, forensic
intelligence, call-center quality monitoring, and the financial
services industries.
BladeWare is comprised of Commetrex' Open Telecommunications
Framework Kernel client-server telephony framework and OpenMedia(tm),
our standards-based media-processing framework. A call classifier
that discriminates between secure telephone units, voice, fax, and
data is included. Then, terminating IP voice and fax are added.
Terminating voice includes support for G.711 and G.726. Low-bit-
rate vocoders are also available as optional items. Fax rendering
is based on FaxTap(tm), Commetrex' recently released fax-rendering
software, which converts recordings of PCM-based fax transactions
to TIFF-F image files. PowerIntercept also includes FaxTap for
T.38-based fax transactions.
For more information on BladeWare, contact Paul Baron, Director of
Worldwide Sales at sales@commetrex.com or 770.449.7775x420. Visit:
http://www.commetrex.com/products/
CTMiddleware/BladeWarePB.html or
http://www.commetrex.com/press_releases/
08182003PowerIntercept.html
TI Third-Party Developer's Network - An Industry Resource
Ten years ago, back in the sleepy days of telephony, it was
economically feasible for one company to develop the DSP software
needed in a digital-media telephony system. But compared with the
early '90s, the technologies needed today in an integrated-media
system are incredibly complex, so complex that the end-equipment
developer cannot afford to master them all. Many have mastered
none, choosing to outsource all necessary DSP software development.
When an engineer begins the search for intellectual property, often
the first place visited is the Third-Party section of the Texas
Instruments Web site at
http://dspvillage.ti.com/docs/
thirdparty/thirdparty.jhtml?
templateId=5681&path=templatedata/
cm/thrdprty/data/ovw_home.
Check out Commetrex' OpenEndpoint,
which is featured in the Third Party Spotlight (click the fifth
link on the left-hand side of this page).
Including Commetrex, the companies listed are many of telephony's
leading developers of DSP software, and not just for TI DSPs.
We support host-based signal processing, ARC Cores, and RISC
processors through partners. Others support ADI, Infineon,
Starcore, and many others.
If you have an "algorithm" need check out the TI site,
http://www.commetrex.com, or give Mike Coffee a call at 770.449.7775x310.
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The Best Just Got Better! Commetrex Releases Version 4.0 of its Fax Modems
Commetrex' fax modems, with 10 years of field experience, send
and receive millions of faxes on the equipment of hundreds of
OEM customers and licensees each day. Now, after a multi-month
project to develop release 4.0 of our Fax Modem Bundle, they
are even better and significantly more resource efficient. On
our TI TMS320C6200 version we've reduced code space by 52K bytes,
and MCPS on the TI 'C6200 have gone from 9.7 to 7.6.
Here's some of what we've done:
Block Processing - Rather than process a single sample through the
modem's sample-rate section we now perform the same operation on
all channels before moving to the next section. This significantly
reduced the number of function calls, making the modems considerably
faster.
On really "ugly" signals the receivers would, in rare cases, train
on the "check train", but fail to lock up on V.17's fast train
(which occurs, for example, between pages). We've made changes to
our phase rotator and the way training is handled in the receiver
to allow the modems to train on really bad signals. And, if we can
train on it, we can receive it.
We've also improved the way coefficients are stored in the adaptive
elements of the receiver, really improving the receiver's ability to
"ride out" large noise bursts and dropouts. Plus, we've made changes
to the AGC's response that allows it to ride out big changes to the
amplitude during image transfer.
If you are a licensee of our modems and would like to upgrade to
release 4.0,please contact Mike Coffee at 770.449.7775x310 or at
sales@commetrex.com. Not a licensee, but would like to become
ne? Mike can also help you out there, too. Give him a call.
A Letter From The CEO
We've added a page to the "About Us" section of our Web site that
will be used from time to time to present what we hope will be
informative, interesting, and, maybe, controversial views of
what's happening in our industry. The first such piece is a
letter from our CEO, Mike Coffee, in which he gives his views
on the current state of the industry.
Check it out at http://www.commetrex.com/
Company_Overview.html.
A Note To Our Readers
In last month's edition of The Outlook, an article entitled
Motorola Selects PowerRelay(tm) for T.38 for StarCore contained
two typos. We referred to the "RF & DSP Division" of Motorola
as the "The RF & SSP Division". We also left out their Web site.
Please visit http://www.motorola.com to learn more about StarCore.
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