Norcross, GA March 2, 1999 - Commetrex Corporation announced today that its MSP/CX Media Gateway, the computer telephony industry’s only standards-based DSP-resource board, has recently received two major industry awards: Product of the Show by CTI Expo Fall 98 in San Jose, CA in December, and 1998 Product of the Year in the January issue of CTI magazine.

"We at CTI Magazine have followed with some interest Commetrex’ entry into the ‘platform’ segment of the value-adding CTI industry", said Rich Tehrani, the magazine’s publisher. "There have been few players to enter the market at that level in the last several years, so we were interested in what made Commetrex believe their doing so would make a difference. The reason they gave is to introduce open-architectures at the board level to enable the cost-effective development of integrated-media resource boards. CTI Magazine has tracked the work of the Commetrex-led MSP Consortium, and now they have a product to back up the Consortium’s M.100 standard, which was released last year."

Martin Lippman, Commetrex’s marketing VP, said, "As the new guys on the block we have to be tougher. So the MSP/CX Media Gateway offers the computer telephony developer unprecedented choices: It can be used with media-processing firmware to provide up to 120 ports of voice, fax, data, VoIP, and FoIP on one board. It can be purchased with the MSP Consortium M.100 software environment to provide a standards-based media-processing facility for the developer’s media-processing firmware. And it can be purchased with the Board-Level Developer’s Kit when the requirement is for an advanced-architecture DSP-resource board."

"We knew the MSP/CX had to be more than the first standards-based platform. It had to offer the ultimate in media-processing power to accommodate the media diversity required by twenty-first century communications servers," continued Lippman. "So we chose the next-generation Texas Instruments TMS320C6201 as the board’s DSP, and equipped each with over 16-Mbytes of SDRAM. Two of these advanced chips give the MSP/CX 3,200 MIPS of stream processing on an H.100 PCI board. The board also includes an Intel-architecture co-processor with 4-Mbytes of RAM, 8 Mbytes of shared-access RAM, OEM-accessible security button, Ethernet interface, and PCI P-n-P interface.

Mike Coffee, President of Commetrex, said "Commetrex is extremely pleased to have received these honors for the MSP/CX Media Gateway. We believe the awards are in recognition of the unique options the MSP/CX offers the communications OEM. The MSP/CX Media Gateway is the only CT platform that is standards-based. Being M.100-compliant, it provides a vendor-independent strategic path unequaled in the industry. Commetrex believes the OEM choosing to purchase, rather than develop, a DSP board for communications applications should not have to be locked in captive-technology jail."

Commetrex Corporation
Commetrex Corporation is a rapidly growing company of communications and information processing professionals that combine the skills of DSP engineering and computer-system design to provide innovative high-value communications products.

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