[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” el_class=”white_paper_inner_page” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]Commetrex has developed an architecture for high-density telephony that smoothes the transition from TDM to IP transports for applications such as IVR, unified messaging, audio conferencing, and especially fax. Commetrex\u2019 Open Telecommunications Framework (OTF) takes advantage of the MSP Media Gateway PCI cards configured as \u201cfax boards\u201d to offer analog and digital interfaces to the PSTN. But it goes further by leveraging the economies made possible by blade servers combined with the OTF Kernel telephony middleware to extend the OEM\u2019s coverage to IP networks on the same system platform. This architecture gives the telephony system developer unprecedented options in networks and media that support new high-value applications such as IP-based fax servers.<\/p>\n
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The enterprise and carrier-equipment vendors must be able to cost-effectively develop applications where the underlying platform renders the network\u2014IP or PSTN\u2014or the transport\u2014G.711 pass-through, T.38 fax relay, or traditional fax modems\u2014transparent to the application. Developers of enterprise systems must be able to take advantage of the power of today\u2019s host processors, which double in power every 18 months while the MIPS required to process a fax media stream have remained relatively constant, and, in the case of T.38, have actually gone down. In today\u2019s market, business as usual with traditional \u201cfax boards\u201d just doesn\u2019t fill the bill.<\/p>\n
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But why is Commetrex the company to come forward with a new architecture for the industry? It\u2019s the natural result of Commetrex\u2019 position as a leading developer and licensor of fax technologies and framework software, and the Company\u2019s unmatched record of innovation in fax and related technologies.<\/p>\n
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Now, Commetrex is rolling up this portfolio of innovative technologies and products into a new architecture, Open Telecommunications Framework (OTF), which allows the industry\u2019s OEMs and system developers to support, easily and cost-effectively, both PSTN and IP voice and fax applications on the same platform.<\/p>\n
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To accomplish this, the application determines the cost of the available routes for a fax to reach its destination. It then executes OTF Kernel commands that will cause the fax to be routed either directly to the PSTN or to the MSP-based gateway in another enterprise location. This is possible because the OTF system has the media technologies needed to support PSTN fax with multi-line fax modems (the MSP Media Gateways serving as fax boards), T.38 IP real-time faxes, and G.711 pass-through faxes.<\/p>\n![\"Fax](\"http:\/\/commetrex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/otfwp5.jpg\" "\\"otfwp5\\"")
Both of these boards are sold without software. Then, you only need to license the number of ports required by your application. In the case of the MSP-H8, each port also requires a field-pluggable trunk interface as well as an incremental software runtime license. The board, as shown above, supports one-to-8 lines. The MSP-320 configured with its Quad E1\/T1 Daughterboard, supports one-to-120 fax ports over four T or E spans.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"