Commetrex Marries T.30 and T.38 Fax
Gateway and Service-Platform Functionality Merge

For Immediate Release

Los Angeles, March 6, 2001- Commetrex Corporation announced at the CT Expo 2001 Conference and Exposition that it had successfully integrated its industry-leading implementations of the two primary ITU fax-protocol standards: the T.38 real-time IP fax relay and the T.30 terminating-fax protocol specification. The successful union of the two protocol engines means that equipment developers can easily implement terminating-fax service platforms for IP networks.

Bayne Bunce, Commetrex' VP, Product Development, explained: "It is quite common for service providers to implement fax-based network services on systems using a multi-line fax board that implements the T.30 protocol engine on the embedded resource. It is also common to implement T.38 fax on embedded resources in in PSTN-IP gateways. But now equipment developers are discovering the efficiencies of merging gateway and service-platform functionality, creating a need for terminating faxes to and from an IP network. Our T.30-T.38 product does exactly that. And, it can run on the embedded resource or directly on the gateway-service platform's host. In fact, the host processor is, in many ways, better suited to host the processing requirements of these two protocols."

Steve Rudner, Commetrex' VP, Sales, added: "We have seen a surge in demand for what we call at Commetrex "the newly weds". The developers of both enterprise and network-service platforms are creating the next-next generation systems that combine the previously separate functions of gateway and value-adding service node. Moreover, they are supported by our field-proven suite of fax modems and our comphrehensive image-conversion library. Our customer's products support applications such as communications ASP, never-busy fax, and unified messaging."

Commetrex reports that the demand for this capacity has skyrocketed in only that last 6 months and is pleased to be, possibly, the only vendor at the present time offering this functionality as licensed intellectual property.

Commetrex Corporation
Commetrex Corporation, known for its innovations in fax technology, has recently developed the open-communications industry's first platform for system development that supports the industry's two primary standards for open-system environments:the MSP Consortium M.100 software environment for media integration and the ECTF S.100 software environment for application itegration. Both products are available with the company's MSP Media Gateway product line featuring the Texas Instruments TMS320C6000 family of DSPs. The MSP Media Gateway products support voice, fax, high-speed data, VoIP and FoIP. Commetrex also extends its support of the communications system developer to the media-processing algorithm level, and is an active participant in Texas Instrument's Third Party Developer Network.