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Historically, Bristol has succeeded through a
specific form of innovation. We craft solutions
using networking and internetworking to redefine
legacy enterprise services, just as the Internet
has redefined such "legacy" tasks as
shopping and sending letters. |
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IsoFax pioneered fax as a network service. It
was the first to consolidate large numbers of
fax modems into a fax server, using TCP/IP for
routing faxes between clients and servers. The
fax industry took several years to zero in on
the IsoFax architecture, and arguably IsoFax remains
the most functional, widely-used solution. |
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The theme of redefining legacy applications to
use the network as a platform continues with Qphone®.
In this case, the enterprise network is applied
to telephony. Based on the Asterisk Open Source telephony platform, "The Network is the Telephone" might
be used to describe Qphone®,
an example of a complete
phone system requiring no additional hardware
beyond the servers, routers, and switches
already in place.
We expect that Qphone
will be part of a significant network-driven challenge
to existing enterprise telephony.
Qphone's distributed approach to
telephony scales readily. There is no large box in the middle.
Voice mail, Interactive Voice Response processing,
and Conference Calling are all performed on clustered Linux servers. |
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