OpenMedia™ Wins Best of Show Award at CTEXPO 2000
Commetrex Delivers OpenMedia, the Industry's First Implementation of
The MSP Consortium's M. 100 Recommendation

For Immediate Release

Norcross, GA, April 5, 2000 – Commetrex Corporation has once again demonstrated its talent for delivering the right product at the right time, and the CTEXPO 2000 Best of Show selection committee agrees. Commetrex' OpenMedia™ product received this year's CTEXPO Best of Show Award following the annual event of the same name held last month in Los Angeles. Out of 368 entries, OpenMedia™ was selected based on its versatility and unprecedented value to the industry. Additionally OpenMedia™ has achieved the industry's first implementation of The MSP Consortium M.100 recommendation.

OpenMedia™ is a board-level software environment that separates media-stream processing from the underlying hardware of the board, making DSP software a portable entity and applicable to many vendor's resource boards without rewriting code. OpenMedia™ also enables a single set of hardware resources to be shared among a variety of media processing applications, such as voice, fax, IP telephony, and speech recognition. Then, using Texas Instrument's eXpress DSP standards for encapsulating algorithms, OpenMedia™ allows easy porting between hardware and software operating environments.

"Our vision is to drive computer telephony the way of the PC by effectively decoupling the layers of hardware and applications," says Mike Coffee, President and Founder of Commetrex Corporation. "We call it 'Any-Media…Anytime' technology."

Commetrex licenses OpenMedia™ to developers of proprietary hardware resources, allowing the vendor to take advantage of conforming media-processing technologies from any vendor. OpenMedia™ is also available on each member of the Commetrex' MSP Media Gateway product family of media-processing resources.

The MSP Consortium
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
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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