Advancing the State of the Art in Licensed Fax Technology
Commetrex has developed and licensed fax technologies for telephony and fax-terminal OEMs for 24 years. We are now developing, for release in 4Q17, SIPfaxEngine, the industry’s most-advanced core fax-technology bundle that OEMs need to move to comprehensive FoIP support for servers and office equipment. It’s a full-function SIP and fax-technology core for MFPs, media servers, and fax terminals—namely, anything that needs to send-receive faxes in SIP networks. SIPfaxEngine supports G.711-fax with V.34 and T.38 version 3, with Smart FoIP® optionally available (US patent 9,064,419).
SIPfaxEgine’s comprehensive feature set means the OEM’s scope of work, time to market, development, and field-support costs are reduced to the absolute minimum.
Features:
But Commetrex doesn’t stop with industry-best technology. Our customer support is the best in the business because it’s provided by the most experienced fax-technology developers in the industry. Cliff Schornak, Commetrex’ CTO, has developed every aspect of fax technology in his 27 years of continuous focus. Bruce Adams, Director, Signal Processing Technology, helped specify V.34 while serving on ITU Study Group 16.
Not only are we the masters of the core fax technologies, we have 13 years of experience in making FoIP work in carrier networks. So, with Commetrex as your technology partner, you can be assured of a smooth transition from PSTN to FoIP for your MFP or fax-server products.
Licensing
SIPfaxEngine is intended for the OEM that is developing a proprietary FoIP- SIP-based terminating fax resource, such as a fax server. We offer paid-up and royalty-based source-code licenses. The product utilizes the pjSIP open-source SIP stack with a paid-up commercial license included.
Core Elements
SIPfaxEngine saves the OEM from one end of the product life cycle to the other. Commetrex has a long tradition of fax-technology innovation, which has served to reinforce our position as the industry’s leading developer of fax-technology. To wit:
We believe our fax relay and terminating FoIP are the most-widely and longest-deployed in the industry, so we are way beyond eliminating early deployment problems. And we practically served as midwife to the birthing of T.38 with our T.38 Interoperability Test Lab in 2002-2004. All of this means rock-solid FoIP technology.
Then there’s the 14-year field experience of our BladeWare HMP fax server, with all of that experience baked into SIPfaxEngine.
Support
Our licenses include 12 months of comprehensive support. Moreover, we offer the test version of BladeWare, Smart ATA®, and FaxTap NG to SIPfaxEngine licensees at reduced rates. And your support is provided by the very same engineers that have spent the last 25 years developing this industry-leading technology.
Mike Morris, Director, Platform Development, is responsible for all system-level product development, including BladWare and SIPfaxEngine. Mike’s 32-year software-engineering career ideally prepares him for this position as the scope of his experience spans driver development to the API and to user-level applications.
Former VP, Corporate Development; General Counsel at Voxeo Corporation, is an advisor to Commetrex. Mr. Ivey has founded four startups, and his business plans/pitches have raised more than $71 million during the last ten years from VCs like Crosspoint and Mayfield.
VP & GM, Premiere Global Services is an advisor to Commetrex. He was previously President of Vocalocity LLC, a technology leader in the open systems speech technology market.
Bob Cooke is President of R.W. Cooke & Associates, an international petrochemical brokerage. Prior to this, he spent 29 years with E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, holding senior positions in manufacturing and international marketing. Mr. Cooke holds a degree in mathematics from Florida State University.
Bruce Adams, Director, Signal Processing Technologies, brings an 18-year career in signal-processing and telephony-systems development to Commetrex. During his 8-year Principal Engineer assignment at Hayes Microcomputer, he completed his PhD EE coursework at Georgia Tech. Subsequently, he was Chief Executive Officer and GM at Signals+Software prior to joining Commetrex. He has also served as rapporteur on numerous ITU committees.
Cliff Schornak, CTO, Commetrex’ co-founder, was president of Systems By Design, a telecommunications design consultancy firm. Prior to this he was a senior researcher at Digital Communications Associates and the VP, Engineering at Innovative Technology, Inc. (ITI). Schornak holds master’s degrees in computer science from Georgia Tech, business and finance from George Washington, and undergraduate degrees in math and physics from Marycrest College.
Mike Coffee, President & CEO, prior to founding Commetrex, was VP, Marketing & Sales, with Natural MicroSystems, where he brought NMS into the computer-telephony market and introduced the idea for MVIP, the industry standard that propelled NMS into the market’s technology-leadership position. Prior to NMS, he served as VP and chief marketing executive at Innovative Technology, a digital-media technology developer, and Autodynamics, a worldwide marketer of process-plant simulators. Mr. Coffee holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech.
