Commetrex has announced its support for V.34 G.711 pass-through in its BladeWare HMP telephony platform.
Thanks to this announcement, BladeWare users can now elect to complete IP fax calls using V.34, rather than forcing a fallback to V.17 speeds, which take twice as long to transmit a page.
Since there are few T.38 Version 3 V.34-capable gateways on the market and none deployed in carrier networks, this support is important, said company officials. There are number of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service providers that have yet to support T.38 in any version.
Company officials said that in these situations, BladeWare delivers faxes with one-half the connection time of any server on the market. T.38 is the international standard for fax over IP networks, or FoIP, while V.34 is said to be the highest-speed fax modem used in today's fax terminals.
"Here at Commetrex we use Cbeyond (News - Alert), an all-IP managed-services provider, for all of our communications over a clear-channel IP pipe to Cbeyond's private metro network," said Tom Ray, chief marketing officer at Commetrex (News - Alert).
But they don't support T.38, Ray noted, adding that instead, all faxes are handled with G.711 pass-through modems, including V.34, and they are virtually error-free. "A BladeWare-based server is setup to use Cbeyond's SIP trunking. It's all software, all IP, and with V.34 support."
Ray also said that many vendors maintain that G.711 pass-through fax does not work over carrier networks. "While conceding that there are carrier networks that cannot reliably support fax, Commetrex maintains there are many that do, and to take full advantage of the higher speed requires Commetrex' BladeWare with V.34 support."
BladeWareis an advanced-architecture all-software telephony platform that supports FoIP with SIP signaling. Last year, the company added support for digital and analog PSTN connectivity in partnership with Sangoma Technologies.
The addition of support for PCI (News - Alert) and PCI Express boards for analog office and station interfaces and ISDN PRI and BRI provides Commetrex the industry's broadest fax-telephony product line for the enterprise-fax OEM.
Earlier this year in March, Commetrex announced Smart FoIP that makes IP-based fax directly connected to IP-carrier networks nearly as reliable as public switched telephone network (PSTN) fax.
Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anshu's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by Marisa Torrieri