Commetrex Named to the 2004 "Pulver 100"
Pulver.com announced on September 27 that Commetrex has been named to the 2004 "pulver100" for the third consecutive year. Commetrex' industry-leading BladeWare HMP telephony middleware, supporting the Company's TerminatingT38 in addition to voice support, and Commetrex' unflagging support for open architectures were cited by Pulver for including Commetrex in this year's pulver100.
To learn more about the pulver100 and BladeWare, contact Mohan Kinra at mkinra@commetrex.com or 408.406.2821.
HelloSoft and Commetrex Form Partnership
HelloSoft and Commetrex have formed a technology partnership that will bring Commetrex' industry-leading fax technologies to applications that use RISC processors. Commetrex is a leading member of Texas Instrument's Third-Party Developer's Network, and offers its fax technology on the 'C5000 and 'C6000 TI DSPs. This partnership takes advantage of HelloSoft's expertise in optimizations for processors such as ARM, ARC Cores, and MIPS, to allow users of those processors to take advantage of Commetrex' Interop-proven fax-relay and fax-modem technologies. The new optimizations will be offered as part of the HelloVoice™ product line.
IP Unity is a developer of enhanced service platforms and applications that enable telecom service providers to develop, manage, and deploy services that seamlessly integrate voice, data, fax, and video applications into one communication interface. Commetrex' PortableT30T (P30) implements the protocol that terminates a fax. The Fax Modem Bundle provides analog fax modems. PowerRelayT for T.38 implements the ITU recommendation for real-time IP fax. And TerminatingT38T combines P30 and PowerRelay to support real-time terminating fax on IP media servers. Multi-Modal Terminating Fax (MMTF) is an integration of all of these major system components to create a system that allows a media server to terminate faxes from PSTN-IP gateways supporting either T.38 or G.711 pass-through for fax transmissions.
For more information, contact Mike Coffee 770.449.7775 x310 or mcoffee@commetrex.com.
Commetrex to Exhibit at VON Fall 2004
Pulver.com's semiannual VON conference is coming up. It will be at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, October 18-21. As a telecom professional, you know the industry is undergoing a once-per-lifetime transformation from its 130-year-old circuit-switched infrastructure of Alex Bell to the exciting world of IP telephony. And the VON conferences have earned the sobriquet, "IP-Telephony Ground Zero", during one week each fall and spring. So, if you want to learn about the emerging technologies, products, and markets of the new network, it's the place to be.
Commetrex will be there: booth #113. Come by and catch a BladeWare demo. It will be running on an IBM eServer BladeCenter-T ("T" for telephony). The demo will send faxes through a Telco Access211 IP endpoint. Our booth is against the far-left wall. Go to the center aisle and turn left. You'll be looking at it.
Hope to see you there.
For more information on our exhibit, give Mohan Kinra a call at 408-406-2821, or visit http://www.pulver.com.
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Commetrex To Present "Supporting Interactive Media" at VON
Commetrex' CEO, Mike Coffee, will be joining Convedia, Pactolus, and Eicon Networks on the podium for the VON session, "Supporting Interactive Media", at 1:30 Monday, October 18. The panel is part of the Monday track "Building the IP Central Office", which also includes sessions on call control, media gateways, and application servers.
Mike's presentation will focus on emerging architectures that affect the economics of offering value-adding services. If you have any interest in what equipment vendors are doing to lower the cost hurdles in offering IP-based interactive services you won't want to miss this session.
To learn more about the session and Mike's presentation, give him a call at 770-449-7775 X310 or e-mail him at mcoffee@commetrex.com
BladeWare Applications...It's Not Just For Servers Anymore
If you've been reading any of the last several issues of The Commetrex Outlook, you're aware that BladeWare is a host-media-processing telephony platform. As Commetrex' strength has long been fax technologies, it's no surprise that BladeWare supports both T.38 and G.711 pass-through fax send-receive. But BladeWare also supports voice play-record, and we are adding the ability to connect two call legs, a precursor of both audio conferencing and PBX, which are on the roadmap for Q1.
But here's one that came up just this week: There's plenty of IP-network infrastructure out there that is functionally limited, making it difficult to deploy some applications. So what is needed is a sort of IP-to-IP mediation switch to transcode an IP-telephony media stream from one supported by the in-place infrastructure to the type required by the new application. Since BladeWare supports gateway as well as terminating applications, it's a fit.
An example that plays to Commetrex' strong suit is where gateways deployed in a metro wire center of the preferred carrier do not support T.38, which produces clean faxes. T.38 fax traffic can be routed to a BladeWare system, which converts it in the colo facility to G.711 pass-through, which can then be handled by the legacy IP-PSTN gateways.
If you have this type of need we'd like to hear from you. Contact Mike Coffee 770.449.7775 x310 or mcoffee@commetrex.com
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