You Gotta be at VON
As always, we'll be there
showing some interesting new stuff. Our CEO,
Mike Coffee, has put together a fascinating
panel on DSP vs. HMP. In addition to Mike,
panelists include senior executives from TI,
Aculab, and Radisys. So if you've
ever wondered what the HMP noise is
all about and want to learn when it's
effective, come to the session.
DSP vs. HMP Wednesday,
October 31, 2007, 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Here's a session description:
Moore's law continues to hold while the
MIPS required to process a call's media
stream remain relatively constant. So
we've seen a surge of product announcements
for so-called "host media processing"
(HMP) media servers. These products
do in software the functions that formerly
required specialized hardware since the
MIPS available on the host computer are
large compared with those required to
process a media server's call streams.
HMP media servers are often less expensive
than DSP-based systems, but are they
just as good? What are the pros and
cons of each?
And we'll be demonstrating FaxIPTM for Skype, featuring the
IPP2000 from Eutectics. Others have tried and failed; ever
wondered how we did it? Come to our booth and we'll
explain our patent-applied-for technology and show it
in action. Mike Lynes, CEO of Eutectics will also be
in our booth.
But wait! There's more! We've jumped feet first into
open source and VoiceXML by developing and posting
on Sourceforge.net Sourceforge.net/BladeWareVXML a
functionally and performance-enhanced
VoiceXML 2.1 interpreter. We're also making
commercial licenses and comprehensive support
available.
Want more! Stop by our booth #226 and learn about
all the new and exciting things happening at
Commetrex. We will be happy to see you and
welcome you to VON Fall 2007.
Now He’s Talking About VoiceXML
Commetrex' CEO, Mike Coffee, has posted his latest
CEO Letter on our Website, and it's about VoiceXML.
No surprise since we just put BladeWareVXML up
on
Sourceforge.net/BladeWareVXML
for you to download. But what are the larger
implications? He believes that the separation of
call-specific application logic and data from the
service network is a big deal. To find out why,
read the letter. CEO Letter
Increased Emphasis on Support for the EU
In a move designed to better serve existing
customers and seize our ever-increasing
opportunities within the European telecom
industry, Commetrex' VP, founder, and CTO,
Cliff Schornak will be splitting his time between
Europe and North America for the coming
year. The EU market has always been strong
for Commetrex. We have many existing
customers to support, with many more in
the pipeline. Establishing an EU presence
will allow us to serve those accounts better
and strengthen the region's contribution to
our growing sales into the telecom OEM,
service provider, unified messaging, and
fax-server markets.
Cliff can be reached by phone on his direct
line, 1-770-407-6027, on Skype at
"CSchornak", or send him an e-mail him
at CSchornak@commetrex.com.
To further strengthen our BladeWare team,
Commetrex has added Jerry Samples to
the newly created position of Director,
System Software. Jerry has an extensive
background in system development, and
holds MS degrees in Applied Computer
Science and Geophysics.
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Look, Ma! No TDM!
Commetrex' new phone system is a perfect example
of the power of IP-telephony, or as Jeff Pulver would
say, "Purple telephony." It's now trite to say it, but
even though this new system is saving us a bundle
in just about every way you can imagine, it's really
about the features that IP makes feasible.
We just installed a new MAX1000 IP phone system
from Altigen. (This is reverse customer-success
story since Altigen's products include several
Commetrex media-technology products.) We
decided to take advantage of the support of the
SIPconnect recommendation by both Altigen and
Cbeyond Communication, our all-IP service
provider. So we avoided gateways altogether. Cool!
And if that's not cool enough, consider that
BladeWare will soon support SIPconnect.
We're working with several fax-server software
vendors to develop BladeWare adapters for
their applications, so they won't need gateways
either.
Then there's Altigen's IPtalk software, which means
that our office extensions go wherever our laptops
go, including overseas. We just opened a UK
office and we don't need a separate system or
UK number. (The office is in the UK, but our
customers are all over the EU.) They can be
reached by calling our main number (770-449-7775)
and listening to the prompts, by just dialing
770-407-6027.
So, what did we have to do to set that up?
Nothing except get a broadband connection
in the UK, which was hard enough. After one
month of begging the incumbent, Virgin had
it done in a week.
Commetrex' Voice Strategy
So, why did Commetrex go to the trouble of
putting BladeWareVXMLInterpreter , a new version
of OpenVXi, on Sourceforge.net ? Well, one
reason is that with Vocalocity's asset sale and
the subsequent withdrawal of their version of
OpenVXi from the market, the industry needs
it. And, we're offering commercial licenses, so
it makes business sense, but there's much
more to the move.
If you've been reading the Commetrex Outlook,
you're probably aware of our offering highly
modular components for the OEM in addition
to integrated systems, such as BladeWare.
After all, in addition to other media technologies,
we even license the secret sauce of BladeWare
to OEMs that already have a media server. So,
we're not going to abandon this legacy when
it comes to adding voice support to BladeWare.
It's all going to be modular, beginning with
BladeWareVXMLInterpreter. We are integrating
it into BladeWare as a system service. We'll then
do the same with MRCP, HTTP, CCXML, and
Media Control.
A few more lines of code will then produce
a voice browser.
VoIP 2.0 Meets Web 2.0 - A Commetrex White Paper
Until recently, the glacial movements of the incumbent
carriers made it difficult to detect watershed events in
the telecom industry. But the events that shape telecom
are no longer controlled by the incumbents. Instead
of the de jure telecom standards of the ITU, we have
industry groups, such as the 3GPP, which developed
IMS, the W3C, responsible for VoiceXML and other
Web standards, and the IETF, which sets Internet
standards. Then the Web 2.0 crowd, such as Google,
Skype, and Yahoo!, are creating their own
"telecom standards." Can telecom mashups
be far behind?
Commetrex believes that the decomposition of service
networks for the carrier and enterprise into what is
now being called IMS and service-oriented
architectures (SOA) is defining a new approach to
service-network implementation. Closely related
is the utilization of Web servers and VoiceXML to
supply the application logic and context-specific
information needed to handle individual calls
and subscribers.
This means that the "me generation" phenomenon
will move beyond wireless to wireline and from
wireline to the enterprise. Commetrex is basing its
strategy on the understanding that communications
and information are becoming personalized, more
open than ever, and Web-based.
Want more? Interested in reading more? Check out our latest
white paper at
VoIP 2.0 Meets Web 2.0
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