OpenMedia wins best of show award at CTEXPO 2000

OpenMedia, Commetrex Corporation's implementation of the MSP Consortium's M.100 recommendation, received Computer Telephony Magazine's CT EXPO 2000 Best of Show award following the annual event of the same name held in March in Los Angeles. Out of 368 entries, OpenMedia was selected based on its contribution to the communications industry as the first open standards-based media-stream processing software environment.

M.100 is the MSP Consortium's (www.msp.org) recommendation for a vendor-independent software environment that promotes the portability of signal-processing technologies from licensor to both host-based and embedded execution environments. The freely available specification can be downloaded from the Consortium's Web site.

OpenMedia is a board-level software environment that separates media-stream processing from the underlying hardware resources, making media-processing software easier to port than a hardware component. OpenMedia also enables a single set of hardware resources to be shared among a variety of media-processing applications, such as voice, fax, IP telephony, and speech recognition.

"Our vision is to drive computer telephony the way of the PC by effectively decoupling the layers of hardware and applications", says Mike Coffee, President and founder of Commetrex Corporation. "We call it 'Any-Media-Anytime' technology."

Commetrex licenses OpenMedia to developers of proprietary hardware resources, allowing the vendor to take advantage of conforming media-processing technologies from any vendor. OpenMedia is also available on each member of the Commetrex' MSP Media Gateway product family of media-processing resources.

Commetrex Corporation, known for its innovations in fax technology, has recently developed the open-communications industry's first platform for system development that supports the industry's two primary standards for open-system environments: the MSP Consortium M.100 software environment for media integration and the ECTF S.100 software environment for application integration. Both products are available with the company's MSP Media Gateway product line featuring the Texas Instruments TMS320C6000 family of DSPs. The MSP Media Gateway products support voice, fax, high-speed data, VoIP and FoIP. Commetrex also extends its support of the communications system developer to the media-processing algorithm level, and is an active participant in Texas Instrument's Third Party Developer Network.