Brooktrout Technology Introduces Low Density, High-Speed V.34 Digital Fax Solution for Small to Medium Sized Customers

TR1034 4 Channel Fractional T1 Intelligent Fax Board Provides Flexibility and Growth Path

NEEDHAM, Mass., October 20, 2003— Brooktrout Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing products, today announced the availability of its fractional T1/PRI 4 channel TR1034™ V.34 digital intelligent fax board, rounding out its V.34 product offerings.

The addition of the TR1034 4 channel fractional T1/PRI board satisfies the needs of small and medium sized customers who want the benefits of V.34 fax without the added cost of additional channels. Customers who do not require a full T1 solution can buy the capacity they need today, and upgrade as their requirements grow. Brooktrout’s TR1034 enables customers to implement low to mid-density digital fax solutions such as network fax, fax broadcast, unified messaging, and business process automation.

Brooktrout’s 4 channel TR1034 is ideal for customers who have an existing PBX with a bank of unused lines. The 4 channel TR1034 will allow customers to route faxes through their PBX without the need to pay for extra inbound trunk lines. Additionally, the TR1034 fractional T1 series provides a migration path for existing digital and resource-only TR114™ customers who previously implemented 4 channel digital cards but now require a universal PCI.

….“The addition of the 4 channel TR1034 allows us to offer our small to midsize RightFax customers the benefits of V.34 fax without the added costs of additional channels,” stated Jürgen Stephan, Vice President of Global Marketing for Captaris (www.captaris.com), a leading provider of business information delivery solutions. “Now they can send faster, more reliable faxes without paying for capacity they don’t need.”

…. The V.34 fax standard is an important development in fax technology. Not only can it send fax data twice the speed of V.17 (14.4 Kbps), but it also supports fast handshaking, which can cut call setup and session-management time by one third. Fax devices supporting the V.34 (33.6Kbps) standard also deliver more reliable fax transmission, with less requirement for resends, under a wider range of line conditions than those supporting older fax standards such as V.17 and V.29 (9.6 Kbps).

The addition of the 4 channel TR1034 rounds out Brooktrout’s existing V.34 intelligent fax board product portfolio complimenting the existing 8, 16, and 24 channels for North America and Japan and E1 fractional 8, 10, 16, 20 and 30 channels for the European Union, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Australia.

For more information on the benefits of V.34 fax, you can download Brooktrout’s recent white paper, “V34 Fax: Superior Performance and Cost Savings”, at http://www.brooktrout.com/whitepapers/pdf/v34_whitepaper.pdf

Brooktrout has been leading the industry in fax technology for more than a decade and currently is the worldwide market leader. Brooktrout was the first company to introduce multi-channel fax boards, the first to combine fax and voice processing on a single board, and the first to provide fax application development tools under UNIX and Windows NT. Brooktrout holds U.S. patents on fax-on-demand document retrieval and the use of direct inward dialing (DID) telephone service with fax message systems, and in the last five years has received more than a dozen industry and technology awards for its intelligent fax products.