Announcing PowerVox(tm), PowerCall(tm), and PowerFax(tm) for OTF Kernel(tm)
We're eating our own dog food! For the last few years, we've been shipping
our MSP-H8 media gateway DSP-resource analog and MSP-320 Quad E1/T1 boards
with their board-level SDKs to OEMs that needed an open value-adding hardware
platform. We've licensed OTF Kernel, our resource-independent S.100-conforming
telephony middleware, to several developers of media servers. We've also
shipped OpenMedia(tm) to users of our licensed media-processing technologies.
And, we're a leading member of TI's Third-Party Developer's Network, supplying
media-processing technologies to the carrier-equipment industry. Now, we've
put the whole thing together to give the application-level developer the first
integrated value-adding platform that doesn't require being locked in
"captive-technology jail". We call this platform Open Telecommunications
Framework® (OTF).
OTF gives the developer all the convenience of only having to add value at the
application level while retaining the option of adding first- or third-party
media-processing technologies on the board as if it were developed in house.
Moreover, OTF Kernel is completely open, allowing you to extend the
functionality of the server or to easily add a proprietary resource board.
Because our product line is comprised of fully decomposed components, it must
be priced differently from the monolithic products you may be familiar with.
This means board-level developers aren't charged for software they don't need,
the board's price only buys the board. Need software? It's licensed
separately, so the product bulletins for the board only describe the board.
Interested in call control? Check out the PowerCall product bulletin at
http://www.commetrex.com/products/
CTMiddleware/PowerCall.html.
Voice play-record? That's PowerVox at
http://www.commetrex.com/products/
CTMiddleware/PowerVox.html
Fax? Please see the PowerFax at
http://www.commetrex.com/products/
CTMiddleware/PowerFax.html
And you don't have to pay more to stay out of jail. We're the new guy in the
market, so we must have not just a better selling proposition, but a better
price as well. To find out how much better, contact Paul Baron at
(770) 449-7775 x420 or sales@commetrex.com for answers to these questions.
Commetrex Named to Pulver 100 Companies to Watch
Commetrex was named to the Pulver 100 at the Fall VON 2002 Conference held
recently in Atlanta. According to Pulver, "The pulver100 Award recognizes
private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-
world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. Companies chosen for
this award represent the future of the communications ecosystem. The value
chain characterized by the chosen companies differs substantially from the
vertically integrated telecom model of the last century. Many of these
companies have prospered in the new environment and have followed the
computer and networking industry model with open interfaces, connectivity
de-coupled from services, and software de-coupled from hardware."
"People don't expect to find new growth in the telecom industry today, but
the pulver100 Award reminds us ecosystems renew after a fire," noted
pulver.com founder, Jeff Pulver. "The present landscape includes the
faltering elements of the old world along with the nascent and unrefined
elements of the new. Judging by the companies in the pulver100 including
Commetrex, the future of telecommunications has emerged as if the PSTN
never existed. Pioneers, such as these, need to press forward without
some of the comforts of the late 90's. It seems clear these companies
embody the telecom future."
For more information, visit http://pulver.com/pulver100
PowerRelay(tm) Version 3.0 Now Available, The Highest Performance T.38
in Industry is Now the Easiest to Use
Commetrex is now shipping PowerRelay 3.0 for T.38. PowerRelay licensed media-
processing technology is used by telecom equipment OEMs to develop PSTN-IP
gateways that offer fax-transport robustness equal to legacy PSTN transmission.
T.38 is the ITU recommendation for the real-time transport of Group 3 faxes
over IP networks. Gateways with T.38 convey fax-image data across the IP
network without creating the discontinuities in the data that result from
packet loss when the fax transmission is conveyed using the gateway's voice
facilities. The media-specific processing of T.38 is necessary in access
gateways to avoid degrading the fax transmission.
Version 3.0 has added host-based signal and protocol processing for the Win32
platform to PowerRelay to enable the development of low-cost gateway endpoints.
A C-reference baseline to support porting to proprietary architectures is
included, as well as versions optimized for the Texas Instruments TMS320C5000
and 'C6000 DSPs. The 'C6400 version of PowerRelay supports 60 channels on
one DSP without requiring off-chip RAM.
This release has improved the product's flexibility and resource efficiency:
·Per-instance memory has been reduced by 20%
·Jitter-buffer memory has been reduced by 20%
·Compile-time options that offer more memory savings have been added
·Support for SIP and H.323 negotiation and status reporting have been added
·OEM-specified maximum frame size has been added
PowerRelay 3.0 is ready to ship. For pricing or ordering, contact Elizabeth
Rubbo at (770) 449-7775 x320 or marketing@commetrex.com.
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OpenEndpoint(tm) IP Endpoint Reference Design Fulfills Industry's Need
What happens when you combine in-band trunk protocol software;
OpenMedia(tm), the industry's only standards-based streams framework;
and all the media technologies needed to implement an IP voice-fax
endpoint? You get OpenEndpoint(tm), that's what, and it's available
today.
OpenEndpoint is ideal for integrated-access devices and PSTN-IP gateways that
require POTS support. Since it's integrated with OpenMediaTM, and Commetrex'
Trunk-Protocol Software(tm)(POTS), the technology can be 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.
The following is included in OpenEndpoint:
·OpenMedia multi-channel, integrated-media software environment
·FXS/FXO POTS line-control software
·Call 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
"Our first customer of OpenEndpoint had a multi-tenant gateway comprised of
his hardware, which used a TI TMS320C6205 DSP to handle 12 non-blocking
channels, and our OpenEndpoint software", said Bruce Adams, Commetrex'
Director, Signal Processing Technology. "Since one of the available versions
of OpenEndpoint is optimized for the TI 'C6000 family, integration was almost
a drop-in exercise. And, since our OpenMedia environment is based on the MSP
Consortium's M.100 specification, our customers can easily add their own or
third-party media technologies to their systems."
For more information on OpenEndpoint, contact Mike Coffee at
sales@commetrex.com or (770) 449-7775 x310.
Visit: http://www.commetrex.com/
press_releases/06202002OpenEnd.html
Is BladeWare(tm) a Disruptive Technology?
If having the highest-density media server is your objective, you can't beat
DSPs to handle the call-stream processing, but a 1.5-GHz Pentium can
comfortably handle 100 calls, even using MIPS-intensive vocoders and modems.
And that number doubles every 18 months according to Mr. Moore. So, do IP-only
media servers really need specialized telephony hardware? Not if the media
server has the systems software needed to harness those host-based MIPS. Not
only can one processor support a large enterprise system, but a blade-based
server can support carrier-class rack densities, too.
Commetrex' BladeWare is the industry's first and only software platform to
support the host-only media server OTF Kernel(tm) abstracts call-stream
connection and processing resources behind "Resource Service Managers"(RSMs)
http://www.commetrex.com/
BladeWare_front.html. Behind the RSM, Commetrex'
OpenMedia(tm) streams environment supports both host-based and embedded
call-stream-processing execution environments. What's more, every media
technology Commetrex has developed began life as a C-coded design. Although
our MSP-320 PCI board uses the TI TMS320C6201 DSP to achieve quad-span densities
in two chips, the MSP-H8 8-line analog board uses only host-based MIPS for
its signal processing. So the combination of OTF Kernel, OpenMedia, and
Commetrex or third-party media technologies are all that is needed by the
OEM to implement media servers by only developing host-application-level
software.
Get to market in half the time and pocket the $10M usually invested
in proprietary hardware and embedded software. "Add BladeWare to your
arsenal today, and bury the competition tomorrow," says Captain Commetrex.
Captain Commetrex appears in person at VON Show:
http://www.commetrex.com/
Trade_Shows.html
For pricing and ordering, contact Mike Coffee at sales@commetrex.com or
(770) 449-7775 x310.
Commetrex has Big Presence at Fall VON 2002 Show
Commetrex has been an exhibitor at the last five pulver.com, Voice on the
Net (VON) conferences. Fall VON was held here in Atlanta in October.
Commetrex used the conference, which is where the industry goes to monitor
developments in IP telephony, as a platform for the announcement of its
newest product, BladeWare. And, Commetrex hosted a lively panel discussion
at this conference entitled: Media-Aware Features in IP Gateways.
Commetrex' CTO Cliff Schornak gave an excellent overview presentation,
followed by individual presentations from Surf, Netergy/8x8, Sonus, and
Cisco. The session as a whole provided a complete picture of how PSTN
quality can be delivered over IP gateways for fax and data, as well as
for voice, by using the media-specific processing of each call stream.
The issues surrounding the different treatment of call types in media
gateways, and in particular, why some gateways have T.38 and some use
G.711 to transport fax and data modems, were thoroughly explored.
E-mail Mike Coffee at sales@commetrex.com if you are interested in any
of the specific presentations given by the panelists listed above. For
more on T.38, please visit the T.38 Interoperability Lab web portal at:
http://www.commetrex.com/
t38lab_about.html or
http://www.commetrex.com/products/
algorithms/fax_relay/PowerRelay/
PowerRelayProductBulletin.html.
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