PCI
Intelligent Fax and Voice Boards
Brooktrout Technology is the market leader in Intelligent
Fax technology, having pioneered the category with the
introduction of its TR114 Series in 1994. Acquired from
over a decade of experience, the TR114 Series has a
built in library of communication techniques that identify
and adapt to the various implementations of real world
fax machines and line conditions. This technical formula,
TR114’s Adaptive Call Progress, ensures unparalleled
levels of compatibility, high rates of connectivity
and high overall transmissions speeds.
The TR114 platform enables messaging software applications
to support a wide range of applications such as LAN
fax, broadcast fax, and production fax. For the enterprise
user today there are more than 40 LAN fax software
packages for use with the TR114 boards. Telecommunications
regulatory agencies in over 25 countries have approved
the platform. Densities range from 1 to 4 channels
on a single board and up to 24 channels per chassis.
The TR114 boards support advanced fax features including
14.4kbps transmission, MMR compression, Error Correction
Mode, T.434 Binary File Transfer and Ultrafine resolution
as well as high performance voice processing features
such as outstanding talk-off and DTMF cut-through
characteristics.
The Brooktrout Technology Fax and Voice Application
Programming Interface (Bfv API) is a powerful tool
for sophisticated application development. High-level
functions permit programmers to quickly create applications.
Lower level functions permit direct interactions with
individual elements of fax and voice calls, such as
the T.30 protocol. International service providers
requiring carrier-class performance and entrepreneurial
application development companies requiring development
flexibility have built their businesses on the TR114
platform. Brooktrout’s ongoing commitment to
consistent API support ensures applications written
for the TR114 platform will be compatible with the
TRxStream™ Series boards in the future.
Universal PCI (uPCI)
Universal PCI (uPCI) is the ability to plug a Brooktrout
intelligent fax board into either a 3.3V or 5V bus
slot in a server chassis. A board that is uPCI will
be physically ‘keyed’ for both 3.3V and
5V bus slots. That is, there will be a second notch
in the PCI connector on the board. The 3.3V notch
will be on the left of the connector, closer to the
card bracket than the 5V notch (which is on the right).
Brooktrout’s TruFax, TR114 Loop Start, TR114
BRI, TR114 DID, TR114 Combo (Loop/DID), and TR1034
fax cards are all Universal PCI compatible (per PCI-SIG
Specification 2.3). All digital versions of the TR114+P2V,
P4V, P8V and P16V are PCI 2.1 and not PCI 2.2 compliant.
All Brooktrout uPCI cards at present are 32-bit, 33MHz,
3.3V/5V universal connector cards. These cards will
work in servers that have the following PCI bus slot
characteristics up to and including:
64-bit connector
133MHz bus clock speed
3.3V-only bus slots
3.3V-only slot signaling
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