For more than a decade, first as Interstar Technologies and then as Sagem-Interstar, Sagemcom has quietly driven innovation in the fax server software industry.
10 Years of Fax Software Innovation
Date
Milestone
February 2000
Interstar Technologies introduces LightningFAX for Linux, the world's first commercial fax software to run on Linux. February 2002
Interstar Technologies introduces XMediusFAX, the world's first
Fax-over-IP (FoIP) software.December 2003
XMediusFAX v4.0 is released and is the first fax software to support the SIP protocol. February 2004
Interstar Technologies releases XMediusFAX Service Provider Edition software. It is the first fax software to offer multi-tenant architecture and support up to 500 virtual fax servers in a single system. January 2007
Sagem-Interstar announces that XMediusFAX is the first fax software to support Cisco's Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). April 2007
XMediusFAX is the first fax software to be rated Avaya Compliant. April 2008
Sagem-Interstar releases XMediusFAX AXP Edition software. It is the first and only fax software certified by Cisco Sytems to run on a Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR). April 2009
Sagem-Interstar releases XMediusFAX v6.0. It is the first fax software on the market to provide Branch Office Survivability architecture and support Cisco's Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) technology. November 2009
Sagem-Interstar releases XMediusFAX v6.5, the first fax software on the market to support Microsoft's Unified Communications platform in Exchange 2010. April 2010
XMediusFAX is the first fax software to be certified by Avaya to be compatible with Avaya AuraTM Communication Manager 5.2.1 and Avaya Aura SIP Enablement Services 5.2.1 June 2010
XMediusFAX is the first and only software to successfully complete interoperability testing with version 1.5.2 of Cisco's AXP (Application eXtension Platform) software. This allows XMediusFAX to run in a Linux kernel on Cisco's G2 (Generation 2) series of ISR's (Integrated Services Routers).
About Sagemcom
Sagem-Interstar rebranded itself Sagemcom in 2010 to reflect the name of its parent company. Headquartered in France, Sagemcom did approximately 1.4 billion Euros in revenue and had 6,000 employees worldwide at the end of 2010. Sagemcom is owned by The Carlyle Group, a global asset management company with more than $148 billion of assets under management.