Roswell, GA, July 6, 2005 - Commetrex Corporation announced today shipment of its all-software BladeWare™ Fax-to-Email Server. Although the Company bills it as a BladeWare sample application, it is a ready-to-deploy fax media server that delivers full fax-to-e-mail functionality. Since the source code is provided, the application can be easily modified to meet the specialized needs of the service provider or enterprise user on either Linux or Win32 servers.
The first BladeWare application, BladeWare Fax Media Server (FMS), was delivered last year. It implements a "dumb" media server, since it is driven by the application logic in a separate application server using a SIP-based control protocol, such as MSCML or MOML. But not every enterprise or hosted-communications service provider uses this decomposed service-network architecture. Some are looking for an integrated system, and BladeWare Fax-to-Email Server fills the bill.
BladeWare Fax-to-Email directly receives incoming SIP-based T.38 fax calls. It extracts the called number and uses it to query a database to obtain the subscriber's e-mail address. The first release uses SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) to interface with the database, but the company says this can be easily changed. If the database lookup succeeds, the fax operation is completed and the resulting TIFF-F file is e-mailed to the specified address via SMTP. The application also maintains call detail records, supports SNMP and SNMP alerts, and a Web-based management interface.
BladeWare, the application's SIP-based platform, is Commetrex' value-adding HMP media server. It is the industry's only host-media-processing media server that supports both T.38 and G.711 pass-through fax terminations, allowing it to complete fax transactions even if the transaction's correspondent gateway does not support T.38. BladeWare support for IVR, PBX, pre-paid, and audio conferencing is roadmapped for later in the year.
About Commetrex
Commetrex Corporation develops and markets open IP-based service platforms for the enterprise and service provider. Long known for its market-leading fax and other licensed technologies, the Company has recently completed a multi-year effort to offer the equipment developer middleware software products, plus a comprehensive line of PCI and CompactPCI DSP-resource and network-interface boards.
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