New Software from VoCAL Makes Real-Time FAX Over the Internet Possible.BUFFALO, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1998-- First Software To Implement New ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. Internet FAX Using the Internet to send faxes. Fax servers accept an incoming fax message and route it to a fax server in the same locality as the destination fax machine. The fax server then makes a local telephone call to send the fax. Recommendation VoCAL Technologies today announced new software that makes it possible to send FAXes over the Internet in real time. The new software, dubbed VoIPfax, is the first to implement the International Telecommunication Union's T.38 standard for sending FAXes over IP networks. Advanced Computer Communications, a leading supplier of remote access concentrators, has already announced that will incorporate VoCAL's VoIPfax in its Tigris Integrated Access Platform. Tigris, the industry's first carrier-class distributed remote access system, will also incorporate VoCAL Technologies' voice-over-IP solution. "This is the first implementation of the T.38 IP fax standard," said VoCAL spokesperson David Jamieson David Charles Jamieson (born 18 May 1947) is a British politician, formerly the Labour Party MP for the Plymouth Devonport constituency. He was first elected at the 1992 general election and retained his seat until stepping down at the 2005 general election and was succeeded by . "With our new software, Internet equipment suppliers like ACC See adaptive cruise control. will be able to offer their customers a real-time fax-over-IP solution that provides substantial advantages over today's store-and-forward solutions. Users want a simple FAX solution. When a transmission report says their FAX went through, they want confidence that it's not really lost somewhere in the ether." "We believe IP-based voice and FAX services will become increasingly important to companies who need to control their telecommunications costs," said Todd Dewell, Director of product marketing at ACC. "VoCAL's software makes it easy for us to enhance our flagship Tigris remote access system with voice and real-time FAX capability." VoIPfax enables two FAX machines to communicate in real time over IP networks using the standard T.38 protocols. This is significant because it enables the sender to obtain real-time confirmation of successful transmissions from the recipient, which is essential for sending legal documents such as contracts. VoIPfax can be used with any public or private network that supports the Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP), including the Internet. VoIPfax supports the TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. and UDP/IP Refers to the use of UDP packets over IP. UDP does not guarantee reliable delivery, whereas TCP does. See UDP. data transmission modes specified in the T.38 recommendation. It also supports the full range of Group 3 modulations, including V.21, V.27ter, V.29, V.17, (up to 14,400 bps), and V.34fax (up to 33,600 bps). VoIPfax is the latest addition to VoCAL's portfolio of IP-based multimedia solutions. The company also offers voice-over-IP, an H.323 multimedia stack for videoconferencing, and an H.323/H.324 gateway. The voice-over-IP solution provides all the modules needed to implement a corporate or enterprise voice-over-IP system, including voice coding, line echo cancellation The elimination of an echo in a two-way voice transmission. Echo is created in the telephone company's central office switch when two-wire lines from the customer are converted to four-wire lines for backbone trunks. , DTMF (Dual-Tone MultiFrequency) The type of audio signals that are generated when you press the buttons on a touch-tone telephone. See also DMTF. DTMF - Dual Tone Multi Frequency detection/generation, and call progress detection/generation. The software supports all major ITU voice coders, enabling OEMs to make a variety of voice/quality tradeoffs. It also supports the G.729B option, which facilitates additional compression during silence intervals. VoIPfax is implemented as a library of modules that runs on digital signal processors (DSPs). VoIPfax is currently available for Analog Devices' family of fixed-point DSPs. More on VoCAL Technologies VoCAL Technologies is a leading supplier of DSP-based OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and software solutions for telephony and computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration applications. VoCAL offers a wide range of fax, voice, video, data and telephony solutions for use in both analog and digital communications networks. VoCAL Technologies also offers hardware and software integration services. For more information on VoIPfax, please contact VoCAL Technologies, Ltd. at 200 John James Audubon Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14228. Phone: (716) 688-4675. FAX: (716) 639-0713. email: sales@vocal.com. World Wide Web: www.vocal.com.
CONTACT: VoCAL Technologies
David Jamieson, 716/688-4675
david@vocal.com
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Davis-Marrin Communications
Ken Marrin, 619/573-0736
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