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Tuesday September 28, 9:45 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Brooktrout Technology
Internet Fax Leaders Select Brooktrout
Technology's TR114 Series As Platform of
Choice
ATLANTA, VON Fall, Booth #119, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- 1999-Faxing and the Internet have converged
to create a wealth of innovative and useful IP Faxing services such as free faxing from the web, unified
messaging and personal fax numbers. While these new services each have their own unique features and
benefits, they do have one thing in common-they rely on Brooktrout Technology's award-winning TR114
Series(TM) intelligent fax boards.
( Photo: newscom.com )
The TR114 is Brooktrout Technology's multichannel processor board that performs advanced fax sending,
receiving and compression, with an application programming interface (API) that enables value-added
features and services. The TR114 is the leading platform for high-volume, ''industrial-strength'' enterprise
and service-provider fax gateways.
Exciting new Internet fax services built on the TR114 include:
Alicom Systems (www.alicom.co.uk) provides fax solutions based on FoIP. The Alicom solution is the
choice of several fax broadcast operators because it supports high density fax lines and accepts input
from e-mail, browsers, windows and data applications, and fax machines with dialers. According to
Managing Director, Alistair Mathewson, ''The demands of broadcasting mean that we and our clients
need hardware to deliver high volumes around the clock. The Brooktrout Technology TR114 boards
were chosen for this reason and have more than lived up to expectations in terms of reliability and
efficiency. We also find that its wide range of boards enable us to promote our solutions to both small
and large clients.''
Call Technologies, Inc., (www.calltec.com) provides personal communications management solutions
including unified messaging to major telecommunications companies, internet service providers and
OEM providers. Their flagship product Call Courier Unify is a hardware independent, carrier class
solution capable of running on standard server platforms. ''Some of the largest telecom companies in
the world have selected Call Technologies unified messaging solution because of our low life cycle cost,
scalability, and rich suite of features. We selected Brooktrout because of their reliability, technical
support, compatibility with other fax systems in the market place, and the fact that they perform in
multiple operating systems,'' said Rich LaPerch, General Manager and Vice President Enhanced Service
Solutions. ''One of the features that allows Call Technologies to differentiate our product is this
ability to port our applications onto multiple operating systems.''
CYNET, Inc. (www.cynetinc.com) is a provider of Messaging and Internet services including
customizable and scalable e-commerce Web sites, Internet access, Web site hosting and development,
high-priority Internet, voice and fax messaging, and mobile and wireless communications solutions.
CYNET was in the midst of a business turn-around and seeking to upgrade its messaging platform
when it evaluated Brooktrout Technology's TR114 intelligent fax card technology more than a year
ago. ''CYNET selected the TR114 because it offered the highest quality, lowest total cost and the
highest reliability hardware platform,'' remarked Dave Hearon, Vice President of Operations. ''Using
the TR114 technology, CYNET was able to increase the reliability of its fax transmissions, and
significantly reduce its transmission time and costs. In addition, the TR114 fax board allowed CYNET
to easily introduce new products and services in 1998 including its fax-to-e-mail product, Hypermail. It
has enabled CYNET to continually wow our customers with our messaging services (fax and e-mail
broadcast, fax-to-email, email-to-fax) and has positioned us to offer new IP based solutions for our
customers far into the future.''
eFax.com, Inc., (www.efax.com; Nasdaq: EFAX - news) is a leading provider of Internet messaging
solutions which allows users, regardless of technical expertise, to manage and distribute paper and
digital documents easily. The company's flagship product is eFaxFree, a fax-to-email service that has
attracted 1.25 million subscribers since its introduction in February 1999. ''We chose Brooktrout
Technology TR114 boards for use in our IP Fax Platform because of their flexibility and processing
power,'' said Josh Mailman, Vice President of Operations for eFax.com. ''The TR114 boards are
proven and reliable-a crucial ingredient in our continued success as the leader in fax- to-email
services.''
Fax2Net (www.fax2net.com) is a global communications company that operates the world's largest
IP-based fax network. Products include Web to Fax, Email to Fax, and Desktop services-plus a new
line of unified messaging solutions integrating fax, voice and email on the Web. ''Fax2Net depends
on Brooktrout fax technology because of Brooktrout's high standards of reliability, product availability
for a variety of PSTN interfaces around the world, and responsive technical support,'' Thomas Chen,
President of Fax2Net.
FaxNet (www.faxnet.net) continues to maintain the largest market share as an outsourced provider of
Internet fax and advanced messaging solutions. While the demand for unified messaging increases,
major telecommunications players like Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth and U S WEST as well as
Road Runner, the country's largest cable broadband provider of Internet access, are making FaxNet
solutions available to millions of subscribers. ''We utilize Brooktrout Technology TR114 boards within
our international network,'' said Keith Cooper, chief executive officer of FaxNet, ''It is the only
hardware solution with the caliber and processing power required to support the carrier-class products
and services that our partners demand.''
Graphnet, Inc. (www.graphnet.com) has offered customers the most advanced messaging
technologies for the progressive business since 1974. From the early days as a telex operator, right
through present day as a multinational corporation offering a full complement of unified messaging
solutions, Graphnet has always put special emphasis on value-added services, efficiency and reliability.
''Today, we incorporate Brooktrout Technology's TR114 Series boards into our messaging solution
technologies. It's flexible, reliable, and efficient, thereby allowing us to develop and set the trend in the
messaging arena,'' said Michael Rothschild, Project Manager-Marketing of GraphNet. ''Our customers
come to us to receive the best. The TR114 boards allow these expectations to continue to be met.''
Image Power Inc. (www.imagepower.com ) (VSE: IPZ - news), is the parent company of FaxPC
(www.faxpc.com), the world's fastest Internet fax-to-email service. Leveraging off Image Power's
expertise in the area of image compression, FaxPC delivers faxes to the end user's email with the
most powerful digital compression technology currently available, JBIG2. The resulting file sizes are
400%-500% reduced over standard G3 (.tiff) images. ''We utilize the Brooktrout Technology TR114
intelligent fax boards within our network because of their superior quality of service levels, enhanced
interoperability with other vendors and carrier-class reliability,'' said Stephen Swift, CEO of Image
Power. ''The Brooktrout hardware delivers the 'five nine's' (99.999%) in reliability, quality and
scalability that our clients demand when handling their fax data, which gives the customer the
confidence they require when choosing FaxPC to handle their fax-to-email needs.''
IXS.NET (www.ixs.net) is an International IP Fax service provider which provides services to business
that have large volumes of international fax traffic. The company has commercial sales and service
operations in Asia, Latin America and the USA. The company owns and operates its' own international
network which supports fax to fax, computer to fax, email to fax web to fax and IP voice services.
''IXS uses Brooktrout hardware because it is the bar-none best and most reliable product on the
market, and when you are supporting systems all over the planet there is no other board we would
consider,'' says Monty Bannerman, COO of IXS.
JFAX.COM (www.jfax.com) is an Internet-based messaging and communications services provider to
individuals and businesses throughout the world. JFAX.COM's services enable the user's e-mail box to
function as a single repository for all e-mail, fax and voice mail and permit convenient e- mail and voice
mail retrieval through e-mail or by phone. ''The Brooktrout Technology TR114 board was the best
choice for JFAX.COM because its intelligent fax and voice capabilities serve as a reliable platform for our
unified messaging service,'' said Dr. Anand Narasimhan, Chief Technology Officer of JFAX.COM.
LANE Telecommunications (www.lanetelecom.com) has been providing mission critical message servers
for major corporations and government agencies on a global basis since 1976. ''In developing
enterprise fax solutions for high volume and public fax services it became apparent that to service a
global market with minimum cost, FoIP was essential,'' said Peter Fincham, Managing Director of Lane
Telecommunications. ''To provide this service we needed robust high density hardware to ensure
optimal performance with low cost of ownership. The Brooktrout Technology TR114 Series was the
obvious choice.''
LANSource Technologies (www.lansource.ca) Enabling service providers and carriers to become
Internet fax service providers is what LANSource Virtual Fax Networking (VFN) is all about. Fax service
bureaus and other enhanced service providers can extend their service offering to include point-
to-point Fax over IP with by delivering business-class software solutions to their corporate customers.
''To ensure carrier-grade delivery of IP originated fax jobs, LANSource has compatibility with the
proven and reliable Brooktrout Technology TR114 Series of intelligent fax boards,'' said Yves Ohayon,
Director of Internet Business Unit at LANSource Technologies.
NetMoves, (www.netmoves.com), helps companies use their existing Internet connection to deliver the
documents that are critical to how they run their business-bypassing the slower, more costly, and
labor-intensive methods (like U.S. Mail, overnight delivery, and traditional fax) they're using today.
NetMoves has Internet Document Delivery (IDD) solutions for every business- from the multinational
enterprise, to the small business-even the solo practitioner working from home. ''NetMoves selected
Brooktrout Technology TR114 intelligent fax boards because of their high transmission rates and
superior interoperability with all of the various fax machines installed around the world today,'' said Bill
Fallon, Vice President of Marketing, NetMoves. ''These advanced features allow us to better serve our
customers with highly reliable, efficient FoIP services.''
Protus IP Solutions Inc. (www.protus.com), is a Canadian-based Applications Service Provider
specializing in business-class IP fax services and turnkey solutions for service providers and for
business end-users. Since the company was founded in 1997, Protus has deployed a global
Internet-based network in 40 countries with IP fax servers in 70 cities. Protus offers a complete suite
of IP fax services including fax-to-email, fax broadcast, desktop-to-fax, fax-to-fax, web-to-fax and
email-to-fax. ''Success as an Applications Service Provider requires application differentiation, service
quality and feature currency,'' said Alan Walter, President and CEO of Protus. ''To this end, we have
developed our own fax server software, incorporating the industry-leading Brooktrout Technology
TR114 intelligent fax boards to provide the reliability and scalability our clients demand.''
Tornado Development, Inc. (www.tornadodevelopment.com), is the world's leading provider of
carrier-grade Unified Messaging (UM) solutions. Their product, Tornado Messenger, allows service
providers to offer UM services to their customers, thereby reducing churn and increasing messaging
profits. ''We utilize Brooktrout Technology TR114 on our telephony platform because it allows us to
cost-effectively integrate voice and fax services into our Unified Messaging architecture,'' stated Kevin
Torf, CEO.
Voice & Data Systems, (www.vds.ca) is a provider of Internet Telephony products for the
Telecommunications industry. Its product portfolio includes Fax over IP and Unified Messaging
Systems. This is offered on a wholesale basis in the shape of enhanced fax services over data
networks, including the Internet. VDS has developed systems to meet the demands of its diversified
international service providers client base which includes leading telecommunications service and major
corporate clients. ''Voice & Data Systems produces turnkey open architecture systems. To this end,
Brooktrout Technology provides us with the TR114 intelligent fax boards necessary for Real-Time Fax
over IP and X.25,'' said Daniel Dorsey, Vice-President, Sales.
In addition to the TR114 Series, Brooktrout offers additional standards- based software and hardware
products for systems and services for the rapidly emerging Internet Telephony market. The product line
includes software developer kits (SDKs) and boards that enable system vendors to develop
standards-based IP Fax and IP Voice solutions in a common software and hardware environment.
Brooktrout's flexible architecture allows developers to expand from fax services to voice and unified
messaging applications while preserving their development investments.
About Brooktrout Technology
Brooktrout Technology, a Brooktrout Company, provides enabling technologies for customers to deliver
voice, fax and data solutions for the electronic communications market. Brooktrout Technology's high
performance, high quality products include: voice, fax, remote access and WAN access cards, application
development tools, and voice systems.
About Brooktrout
Brooktrout, headquartered in Needham, Mass., is a worldwide supplier of electronic communications
products. Through its multiple companies and divisions, its mission is to provide high performance, high
quality electronic communications products to system vendors, service providers and VARs dependent on
electronic information exchange. Brooktrout is traded publicly on NASDAQ under the symbol BRKT.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
For more information about Brooktrout Technology and its products, call 888-248-5401 or visit
brooktrout.com
SOURCE: Brooktrout Technology
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