Eutectics and NetGen Communications Awarded 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY

IPP2000 FAX & FaxIP for Skype Honored for Outstanding Innovation

 

Fairfield, NJ, June 21, 2007Eutectics and NetGen Communications announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) named the IPP2000 FAX and FaxIP for Skype as a 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award winner presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. The hardware-software combination allows the Skype user to send real-time faxes using T.38 between two Skype-connected fax terminals anywhere in the world with no toll charges. T.38 is the international standard used by PSTN-gateways to send faxes across an IP network. In this case, the Skype computers serve as the gateways using a patent-applied-for technology to enable the product combination to use Skype addressing and client software.

 

“We are extremely pleased to be selected for this prestigious award by TMC, one of the most forward looking and influential voices in our industry”, said Don Fowler VP of Sales for Eutectics Inc. “We feel that the real growth opportunity for VoIP is clearly the SOHO/SME. IPP2000 Fax combined with FaxIP for Skype meets a great need in this sector: free real-time fax over Skype™.”

 

Tom Ray, NetGen Communications EVP, Marketing and Sales, added, “We believe that Skype, followed by Google, AOL, and others may be redefining telecom. This partnership to bring fax-for-free to the SOHO/SME is only the first of many products that will ride this, the next telecom wave.”

 

“IPP 2000 FAX combined with FaxIP for Skype is clearly deserving of recognition in the VoIP sector of the IP Communications industry. We’re proud to reward the hard work of Eutectics and NetGen with a TMC Labs Innovation Award this year,” said TMC President Rich Tehrani.

 

According to Tom Keating, CTO and TMC Labs Editorial Director at TMC, “The Innovation Awards exemplify the best products and services that this industry has to offer. Eutectics and NetGen Communications have demonstrated a commitment to the further development of the IP communications industry with this product and marketing partnership. They deserve this honor, and I look forward to seeing other innovative solutions from them as they continue to contribute to the future of IP communications.”

 

Keating continued: “The TMC Labs Innovation Awards honor products that demonstrate raw innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology. It’s not granted only to the best-selling products, but instead to those demonstrating raw innovation, uniqueness, and representing a significant contribution to the industry.”

 

2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award winners can be found in the July and August 2007 issues of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

About Eutectics

 

Eutectics is a leading developer of high-performance, inexpensive end-user equipment for IP-telephony applications. Eutectics’ new generation of phones and adapters greatly improve the capabilities of PC-based telephony, providing superior audio quality, full integration with PC-based soft phone clients. Eutectics supports its worldwide customer base from its corporate headquarters in Fairfield, N. J., and its offices in Hong Kong. More detailed information may be found at www.eutecticsinc.com.

About NetGen Communications

 

NetGen Communications, a spin-off of Commetrex Corporation, a fax-technology innovation leader for the last decade, is bringing Web 2.0 to telecom for the consumer and SME (small-medium enterprise). The promise of Web 2.0 is personalized anytime, anyplace, any-device communications. NetGen’s first offering, the FaxIP product suite, provides fax-for-free solutions for Skype, Google, Yahoo! and AOL users. FaxIP for Skype will be available in mid-2007 and will provide real-time fax between Skype and FaxIP-enabled computers anywhere in the world.

About INTERNET TELPHONY magazine

 

Since the first issue in February 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing experienced and unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers its audience of decision-makers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs.

About TMC

 

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications industry. Ranked in the top 0.004 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two-million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, Call Center 2.0 Conference and the Green Technology World Conference, coming in September 2007. TMCnet.com publishes more that 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)