As a leader in fax and fax-over-IP (FoIP) technologies, Commetrex (News - Alert) has seen the transition of communications solutions evolve for decades. Beginning as a company developing media-processing technologies, and licensing the solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Commetrex has focused on fax technology for over 15 years.
Commetrex’s Open Telecommunications Framework, which goes by the name BladeWare, is a host-media-processing telephony middleware, according to the company. A value-adding platform for the enabling of voice and fax services on an IP-based network, BladeWare also hosts a client application for fax to e-mail.
Terminating IP fax transactions in real time, BladeWare enables fax servers and services to function as they would on a PSTN network with the benefits of functioning on an IP network. Yet Commetrex has been building up to this advanced network solution, beginning in 1994 when it shipped MultiFax, “the industry’s first fax software-add-in product, turning the NMS voice boards into voice-fax boards,” according to the company.
In 2002, Commetrex opened the successful T.28 Interoperability Lab, and in 2003, shipped its solution, Multi-Modal Terminating Fax (MMTF). BladeWare was introduced in the following year as the first solution to support both T.38 and G.711 pass-through fax.
Most recently, Commetrex shipped the industry’s broadest product line of PST interfaces via a partnership with Sangoma Technologies (News - Alert), and released Smart FoIP, which is still patent-pending, but will increase FoIP connection rates in carrier networks by five to 10 percent.
As an industry veteran, and a time-tested provider of all things fax, telecom marketing, media-processing, and VoIP and FoIP-related, Commetrex has braved the storm of the transition of fax from PSTN networks to IP. The company continues to providing leading solutions to facilitate the continual developments in fax technologies.
Juliana Kenny graduated from the University of Connecticut with a double degree in English and French. After managing a small company for two years, she joined TMC (News - Alert) as a Web Editor for TMCnet. Juliana currently focuses on the call center and CRM industries, but she also writes about cloud telephony and network gear including softswitches.
Edited by Juliana Kenny