Open Telecommunications Framework® (OTF) Demonstrated at CT Expo 2000
S.100 and M.100 Gain Support From Commetrex™

For Immediate Release

"We believe the open-communications industry's growth is being held in check by a lack of multi-vendor applications integration and multi-vendor media integration. It's time for the industry to move to the next generation, and we're providing the necessary leadership," said Mike Coffee, Commetrex' president. "With a critical mass of support, S.100 has the potential of taking the industry from the age of hardware to the age of software. The PBX won't die. It will simply appear as an OTF™-based software product", adds Cliff Schornak, Commetrex' CTO. "The same is true for integrating the industry's wide assortment of media-processing technologies. Without an open media-processing environment, creating the integrated communications server is simply too expensive. OpenMedia™ removes that obstacle by allowing OEMs to easily take advantage of media technologies from many companies on one DSP or host signal-processing resource," continued Schornak.

Elizabeth Rubbo, Director, Marketing Communications, at Commetrex explained: "The MVIP PCM highway really helped move the industry from single-function to multi-function systems by allowing multiple vendors to work independently yet cooperatively, to create higher-function systems. But PCM is yielding to less-expensive packet technologies, and DSPs, with over 1000 MIPS mean one chip can handle the all-media needs of multiple applications. This demands integrating architectures that permit the industry to take advantage of these technologies. OTF does it by taking advantage of the fine work being done by the ECTF and the MSP Consortium."

There has been some concern within the open-communications industry whether these two open standards would gain wide support in spite of their obvious benefit to the industry. Prior to Commetrex' announcement only one company has developed an S.100-conforming product and no company has announced an M.100-conforming product. Now the industry has two different and competing implementations of S.100. And exactly two years after its release, the industry has OpenMedia™, its first open-architecture media-processing environment.

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 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 Instrument’s Third Party Developer Network.

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