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Los Angeles, March 5, 2000 – The wait is over. At Computer Telephony
Expo 2000 here today, Commetrex demonstrated OpenMedia™, the industry's first
implementation of the MSP Consortium M.100 recommendation. Commetrex calls it
"Any-Media …Anytime" technology".
"We believe the open-communications industry's growth is being held in check by
the time and costs involved in integrating media technologies from several vendors onto
one integrating platform", says Cliff Schornak, Commetrex'
Chief Technology Officer, and the principal creator of M.100. "With the power of
today's DSPs, such as the new
TMS320C6201 from Texas Instruments, the old model of one DSP board performing one
function no longer makes sense. Yet the necessary media-processing technologies are
usually limited within one company, requiring a very expensive development project to
integrate media technologies from several vendors onto one processing resource. The MSP
Consortium was created to solve that problem by defining an open multi-vendor
media-processing environment. And as the MSP Consortium's founder, it's only appropriate
for Commetrex to bring the first implementation to market."
Commetrex licenses OpenMedia™ to developers of proprietary hardware resources,
allowing the vendor to take advantage of conforming media-processing technologies from any
vendor. Commetrex offers voice, fax, data, VoIP, and FoIP media technologies.
OpenMedia™ is also available on each member of the
The MSP Consortium was founded in the third quarter of 1997 by seven companies to develop
and distribute a new computer telephony value-adding interface specification called the
Media Stream Processor (MSP). The MSP is defined in the Consortium’s M.100
specification of an open environment for media-processing firmware. The Consortium’s
objective is to add a new layer to computer telephony’s value-adding structure at the
system-resource level. The specification is creating a new competitive space by finally
separating fixed-function "boards", such as "fax board" and
"voice boards" into two value-adding layers: the hardware resource with its
MSP-compliant software environment and the media-processing software, such as voice
processing or the fax modems.
The MSP Consortium's M.100 recommendation is available for download from the
consortium's Web site at http://www.msp.org.
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 integration. 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 Intsturment's Third Party Developer
Network.
Note to editors - Product pictures and electronic images are available from Commetrex
on request.
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