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October 1998
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This month's winners:
Vocal'Net Telephony Gateway
Panasonic's PanaFax UF770i
Linkon's LinkNet IP Telephony Gateway
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Vocal'Net
Telephony Gateway Inter-Tel
7300 W. Boston Street
Chandler, AZ 85226 www.inter-tel.com |
Inter-Tel's Vocal'Net Telephony Gateway is designed to allow
organizations to bypass traditional public telecommunications networks and reduce
long-distance costs by providing a gateway between circuit-switched phone systems and
packet-switched Intranets or the public Internet. As a result, organizations can maintain
their current phone systems, while choosing to route long-distance calls across the same
network they use for their data communications. The Vocal'Net Telephony Gateway is
scalable from 8 to hundreds of ports depending on the needs of small to large businesses.
Packetization and real-time compression take place on high-performance DSP cards, with no
significant impact on the CPU. Minimum platform requirements for the Vocal'Net include
Windows NT operating system, a Pentium 100 processor, 10 MB of disk space, and 16 MB of
RAM. The system works with any manufacturer's PBX as well as any existing computer
network.
The current version of Vocal'Net allows local or remote configuration over the IP data
network for programming multiple locations worldwide, and also offers a call accounting
package (InsideTrack), which provides the ability to define and run custom reports as well
as several predefined reports. Predefined reports include: Detailed and summary by account
number; Detailed and summary by telephone number; or Detailed and summary by IP address.
Future enhancements to Inter-Tel's telephony gateway will include: Increased capacity of
up to 96 ports per server; Support for H.323, G.723.1, G.729a, Voxware, and elemedia; as
well as a fax gateway, fax broadcast, and a video gateway.
Inter-Tel has mobilized a domestic network of Vocal'Net IP gateways over a managed
backbone. The network, called Inter-Tel.net, uses dedicated bandwidth from large backbone
providers to deliver high quality voice connections. Business customers who have
established their own network of Vocal'Net IP gateways and ISPs or other service providers
who have built their own point-to-point long-distance/IP networks are able to extend the
reach of their network by tapping into Inter-Tel.net at any time for a minimal access fee,
resulting in much lower long-distance costs.
For more information, contact Inter-Tel at 602-961-9000 or visit their Web site at www.inter-tel.com.
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PanaFax
UF770i Panasonic Office Products Company
2 Panasonic Way
Secaucus, NJ 07094
www.panasonic.com/office |
Panasonic's Internet-enabled fax machine -- the Panafax UF-770I
-- is designed to reduce phone charges for companies that find themselves sending frequent
global and/or long-distance faxes. The Panafax UF-770i is a hardware-based solution that
sends and receives documents, pictures, photos, hand-written messages, and e-mail over the
Internet by simply pressing a "one-touch" key. Instead of entering a telephone
number, the user dials in an e-mail address on the keypad. The PanaFax UF 770i works by
first scanning a document and compressing the binary image. It wraps the compressed image
data with TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) headers and tags and then encodes the TIFF file
in base64. The data is then attached to a MIME file (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension)
and passed through a predetermined mail server with SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).
If another Internet fax is the receiving device, the original message will be printed
automatically.
The UF-770i also automatically prints e-mail messages sent to it, making it an
all-in-one communications center.To ensure that the UF-770i works seamlessly with PCs both
on and off the network, Panasonic offers free software utilities to send and receive
Internet faxes. A TIFF viewer and Internet fax converter are available for download from
Panasonic's Web site at www.panasonic.com/internetfax. The TIFF viewer allows quick and
easy viewing of Internet faxes received in a desktop PC's e-mail inbox, and the TIFF
converter lets the user create Internet fax files by selecting a printer driver command
and saving the file.
The UF-770i is also a standard G3-compatible fax device with Full Dual Access operation
and a fast 3-Second Quick Scan feature designed to eliminate long waits. The
high-performance Panafax UF-770i can be configured with a variety of memory and paper
cassette options for practically every office requirement.
Other features include:
- 50-page Automatic Document Feeder.
- Departmental Codes: Using up to 24 codes, the Panafax UF-770i can track and monitor
department-by-department fax usage.
- Check and Call function automatically reports low toner status and certain mechanical
failures to the Service Center.
The Panafax UF-770i offers high-quality, plain-paper printing in letter, legal, and A4
formats. Photos and text can be reproduced on the same page with excellent clarity and
sharpness thanks to Panasonic's Facsimile Image Processor chip, which features Auto
Picture/Text Recognition, Edge Enhancement, and a Quality Mode 64-level gray scale. A Fast
Mode feature is also available, offering extra-quick transmission of photos and diagrams.
For more information, contact the company at 800-742-8086 or visit the Panasonic Web site
at www.panasonic.com/office.
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LinkNet IP
Telephony Gateway Linkon Corporation
140 Sherman Street
Fairfield, CT 06430
www.linkon.com |
The LinkNet IP Telephony Gateway, from Linkon Corporation is
designed as an open system platform with a full set of enabling technologies capable of
supporting a wide range of IP to PSTN communications applications, including
phone-to-phone, PC-to-phone, phone-to-PC, real-time and store and forward fax, voice over
frame relay, voice over cable, and voice over ATM.At present, the LinkNet IP Gateway
can support from four analog channels to multiple E1/T1 digital circuits, providing up to
90/96 full-duplex digital communications channels. Several recent enhancements include
integrated IP voice and fax communications, IP switching, consolidated logging and
reporting functions, SS7 (Signaling System 7) protocol support, telco-grade hardware-based
echo-cancellation, a robust "QoS" (Quality of Service) and network management
feature-set, and enhanced services support for interactive voice response and speech
recognition.
The LinkNet gateway operates on Sun Microsystems's SPARC/S-bus-based IP communications
platform. At the heart of the LinkNet hardware architecture lies the foundation-switching
card. This carrier card interfaces with the host bus to provide connectivity to internal
computer telephony bus structures, such as MVIP and SCSA. In addition to supporting the
S-bus, cards will be available to support ISA bus, PCI, CompactPCI, and VME bus
implementations.
LinkNet's DSP Feature modules, which attach to the foundation-switching card, comprise
a complete processing system at board level. During system initialization, the DSP
software, which implements all of the IP communications and universal port features, load
into the modules. The DSP software also manages the software license mechanism, allowing
in-field upgrades of the modules' capabilities. The DSP modules execute a software
implementation of all of the IP telephony universal port functionality. Loaded once at
system initialization, they serve as discrete processing engines for IP audio compression
codecs, fax processing, speech recognition, speaker verification, text-to-speech, modem,
DTMF detection and generation, and all real-time speech input/output, including
compression and decompression.
ITU H.323 communication control has been accounted for in the design specifications
undertaken for SS7. The ITU H.323 call control model is based on ITU H.245, which is part
of the SS7 call models utilized in the design specifications. The signaling server
software will be extended to support unique characteristics of H.323, allowing the
co-existence of multiple signaling protocols.
For more information, contact Linkon at 203-319-3123, or visit their Web site at www.linkon.com. |
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