Season's Greetings!
Finally! We have multiple
reasons to wish you a happy holiday. The first is more traditional. The end of
the year is a time for most of us to reflect on our family and loved ones, the
year that's winding down and the year that is to be. We at Commetrex wish you
health and happiness. But, as many of you on this list are customers, vendors,
and shareholders, we also want to thank you for a good year. Your business and
support mean a great deal to us. We are convinced, as probably most of you are,
that the telecom depression is history. Thank goodness.and hello, 2006.
Happy Holidays from all of us here at Commetrex.
Commetrex Announces HMPturbo™ Transcoding Subsystem
HMPturbo Transcoding Subsystem,
Commetrex' latest product, increases the system density of media servers that
use host MIPS for signal processing (HMP media servers). And for those media
servers that do not have a signal-processing capability, HMPturbo will add it,
allowing high-value functions, such as high-performance call-progress analysis
for outdial or T.38 fax terminations, to be added.
Powerful servers and IP telephony have given rise to the
HMP media server. The term "HMP" is loosely applied since not all HMP media
servers actually process a call's media stream. The IETF RFC2833, which
specifies how in-band telephony tones can be transported in RTP packets, allows
the signal processing needed to detect these tones to be outsourced to the media
gateway. And messaging can be implemented by simply storing the RTP packet
payload and playing it back when needed.
But what happens when real media or signal processing is
required? That's when you need HMPturbo. For example, often the requirements
for in-band call-progress analysis for dial-and-deliver applications in
messaging servers exceed the capabilities of media gateways. And what if voice
messages are stored in G.711 or G.726, and the playback requires a different
codec, perhaps a MIPS-hungry low-bit-rate vocoder? And terminating faxes sent
by a low-function endpoint that does not support T.38, the ITU specification for
real-time IP- transported fax, is possible with HMPturbo. HMPturbo can also
include Commetrex' TerminatingT38, the industry's first combination of T.30 and
T.38, allowing T.38 faxes to be terminated on a media server.
HMPturbo is available in two versions: one requires no
additional hardware. It's for the signal-processing-challenged media server
that must meet additional requirements, as described above. Packet buffers are
sent to the HMPturbo subsystem through an easy-to-use API. The subsystem can
handle, for example, in-band call-progress analysis, DTMF, real-time IP fax (G.711
or T.38) termination (and relay), and vocoder transcoding. The second version
is functionally identical and exposes the same API, but uses Commetrex' MSP-320
to really turn on the turbo. The same media-processing functions are available,
but they are executed by the PCI board's DSPs.
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The MSP-320 includes two TI TMS320C6201 DSPs, each with
the resources to process 20 G.729a/b streams or approximately the same number of
V.17 receivers.
Interested? Here's a link to the HMPturbo product
bulletin on our Website: HMPTurbo
Product Bulletin.
You can also contact Cliff Schornak, Commetrex' CTO, at
770-449-7775 X330 or cschornak@commetrex.com.
Cbeyond Communications Goes Live with Bladeware Fax-to-Email
Cbeyond Communications is the
first local-exchange carrier to deploy a service based on the BladeWare Fax-to-Email
Server. Here's what James Geiger, Cbeyond's CEO, had to say about it in a
recent e-mail:
"With our new Fax
to Email you can go where you need to go without worrying about missing an
important fax. As long as you have access to email, your fax will come right to
you. Plus, you can print only the documents that matter and store them
electronically, cutting back on supply costs and file space. And with Fax to
Email, there is no monthly page limit, no activation fee, and an unlimited
number of inbound faxes for just $5 a month. Click here
to give it a try today."
If you are interested in learning more about BladeWare
Fax-to-Email Server, click here.
Commetrex Strengthens Management Team
Commetrex has recently added two
senior managers. Alex Adams, Director, Marketing Communications, comes to
Commetrex after a 20-year assignment with Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.
where he was Marketing Communications Account Manager for several Siemens
strategic business units. And Mike LeBar, Director, Finance & Administration,
joins Commetrex from a 20-year assignment at Textron, where he was the CFO of
the Camcar Division. Their contact information is AAdams@commetrex.com,
770-449-7775 X320 and MLeBar@commetrex.com,
770-449-7757 x430, respectively.
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