Commetrex' Board Adds New Member
Ad Agency Executive William A. Robinson To Fill Sixth Seat

For Immediate Release

Norcross, GA, July 17, 2000 -- William A. Robinson of Jacksonville, Florida, was elected to the board of directors of Commetrex Corporation at a shareholders' meeting held at the company's headquarters on June 26. Robinson's election adds a sixth seat to the board headed by the chairman and company founder, Michael B. Coffee. Other board members include Clifford J. Schornak II, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Commetrex, Robert L. Harman, Commetrex investor and retired executive with Merrill Lynch, Robert W. Cooke, Commetrex investor and retired executive with E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, and Eric R. Giler, founder and CEO of Brooktrout Technology, Inc. Brooktrout Technology is an investor in Commetrex.

A native Floridian, Robinson graduated from the University of Florida in 1966 with a Batchelor's Degree in Advertising and in 1967 with a Master's Degree in Journalism. After 10 years in journalism and advertising, he founded Robinson Marketing, Inc., an advertising and marketing consulting business. Eight years later, he sold the company to an associate, and co-founded Robinson and St. John Advertising and Public Relations, Inc. Over the next 9 years, this agency grew to become one of the larges (in Florida) and most profitable (in the US).

Robinson was named "Small Business Leader of the Year" in 1991 by the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce and "Outstanding Businessman of the Year" in 1992 by the Jacksonville Jaycees. In 1994, Robinson retired from agency work to become an investor and advisor to numerous start-up companies.

Commetrex Corporation
Commetrex Corporation, known for its innovations in fax technology, has recently developed the communicaions industry's first platform for system development that suupports the industry's two primary standards for open-system environments: the MSP Consortium's M.100 software environment for media integreation 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 DSP's. The MSP Media Gateway products support voice, fax, high-speed data, as well as voice and fax over the Internet and other packet networks. 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.