Melville, New York, - September 7, 2005 - pulver.com and Commetrex announced today that Commetrex has been named to the 2005 "pulver100," the VoIP industry's premiere listing of privately held growth companies said to represent the future of the communications ecosystem. Commetrex has been named to the list for the fourth consecutive year due to the integration its BladeWare host-media-processing fax media server into the "IP Multimedia Subsystem" (IMS) framework.
Commetrex is well known for its portfolio of fax technologies, which are licensed to telecom equipment manufacturers. It has been shipping T.38 fax relay for over five years, and shipped the category-defining TerminatingT38 four years ago. BladeWare integrates those technologies into a comprehensive telephony platform, and then adds the SIP signaling and protocols required to implement the "Media Resource Function Processor" (MRFP) specified in the 3GPP's IMS architecture. Now, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) is adopting the architecture. BladeWare will offer OEMs, enterprises, and carriers an MRFP with the cost, maintainability, and scalability of an all-software solution.
Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com, explained: "The pulver 100 is the VoIP industry's most-watched award listing. And each year it becomes more significant because of the contributions to the growth of IP telephony by companies such as Commetrex. IP telephony is hot, and one of the hot issues within the industry is IMS. We at pulver are particularly interested in IMS-related product introductions, such as the support for IMS Commetrex has added to BladeWare. We are pleased name Commetrex to the pulver 100 due to their continuing contributions to the state of the IP-telephony art."
Mike Coffee, Commetrex' CEO, added, "Jeff Pulver is performing a major service for our industry by producing the VON conferences. Now, his pulver100 serves to focus attention on companies that are providing the leadership of innovation for the IP-telephony industry. We are very pleased to have been included in this group for the last four years."
Commetrex will exhibit BladeWare Fax Media Server and BladeWare Fax-to-Email Server at VON Fall 2005, to be held at the Boston Convention Center in September 19-22. BladeWare will be handling G.711 pass-through and T.38 faxes from an through selected gateways.
About the pulver100
Originally introduced in 2002, the pulver100 features private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. The value chain characterized by the pulver100 differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century, focusing more on a networking-industry model that espouses open interfaces, connectivity decoupled from services, and software decoupled from hardware. For additional details on the 2005 pulver100, please visit: www.pulvermedia.com.
About Commetrex
Commetrex develops and markets enabling technologies designed to shorten the time to market and reduce the development cost of integrated-media telecommunications equipment. Long known for its market-leading fax and other licensed technologies, Commetrex is now bringing to the equipment OEM, enterprise, and carrier the BladeWare host-media-processing media-server platform.
About pulver.com
Founded by Jeff Pulver, pulvermedia produces the highly successful VON conferences, and is engaged in many activities that promote the growth of communication technology. By combining hardware, software, services, and various media outlets, pulvermedia ties together a number of companies including: VON Magazine; The VON Coalition; Free World Dialup (FWD); LibreTel; pulverinnovations, Blue Lava Software, and pulverRadio, to enhance the ways in which we communicate using innovative IP-based technologies. The pulvermedia Website is a key source of information for those in the IP Communications industry, and The Pulver Report (http://pulver.com/reports) has more than 50,000 subscribers - for whom it is a primary source of news and information on the latest developments in emerging net technologies. For more information, please visit www.pulvermedia.com.
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