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NetGen Announces Immediate Availability of Smart ATAATLANTA, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NetGen Communications, Inc., a spin-off of Commetrex Corporation, announced today the immediate availability of Smart ATA(TM), which NetGen bills as the only ATA to deliver the high transaction success rates that ITSP subscribers are demanding. Announced at ITEXPO last September, Smart ATA - powered by Commetrex' patent-pending Smart FoIP - is now available from NetGen in evaluation quantities. After extensive testing, Commetrex found that 5-10% of T.38 failures in SIP networks were due to faulty interaction between the SIP call-control subsystem and the T.38 implementation of all ATAs, gateways, and fax servers. The company says its 20 years of experience in fax and its 13 years of experience in T.38 allowed it to come up with a patent-pending solution to the problem. According to Cliff Schornak, Commetrex' CTO, not all IP networks support T.38, meaning FoIP must rely on G.711 pass-through fax, which is very similar to a voice call. But there's also a problem there with the reliability of long or multipage faxes. Smart ATA also takes care of that problem by making all multi-page faxes as reliable as single-page faxes. Marilyn Troup, who heads Commetrex' marketing communications, claims that Smart ATA offers a third unique feature as it is the first and only ATA with full support for V.34 fax. She also noted that Smart ATA is not just for fax since it has a voice feature set that rivals the Cisco IAD2400. About Commetrex Commetrex, after providing industry-leading fax technologies to the telecom equipment OEM for over a decade, has developed BladeWare(TM), an advanced-architecture all-software telephony platform that supports FoIP with SIP signaling. In 2009, the company added support for digital and analog PSTN connectivity in partnership with Sangoma Technologies. The addition of support for PCI and PCI Express boards for analog office and station interfaces and ISDN PRI and BRI gives Commetrex the industry's broadest fax-telephony product line for the enterprise-fax OEM. In order to maintain its OEM focus, Commetrex spun off NetGen Communications, Inc. to develop and market end-user telecom products. Smart ATA is NetGen's first of what will be a long line of voice, fax, and video telecom products that leverage Commetrex technology. About NetGen Communications NetGen Communications is a spin-off of Commetrex. While Commetrex focuses on developing the technologies that make FoIP work, NetGen is handling the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of FoIP products - powered by Commetrex' technologies - that are specifically targeted to the Internet telephony service provider (ITSP) market. With the new Smart ATA available exclusively from NetGen, ITSPs will no longer have to tell their customers, "Keep your POTS lines for fax!" For more information, visit http://www.netgencommunications.com/ng_smartata.html. Web: www.commetrex.com SOURCE NetGen Communications, Inc. |