Housemark for a full line of computer hardware and computer software for communication over packet network and data and media streaming in the field of telecommunication; signal processors; communication boards; advanced communications components, namely boards, chips routers and interfaces and access gateway systems comprised of such boards, chips and routers and interfaces for high quality transmissions of voice, fax and data over IP, DSL, ATM, [ frame relay, ] cable, wireless and cellular networks; communication boards which provide building blocks for high performance, large capacity, open telecommunication platform-based gateways which are used to connect traditional telephone networks with packet voice network; signal processor chips, which process voice and fax signals and compress the information into packets; communications boards which enable voice and fax communications through gateway equipment employing the Internet protocol; communications software used to process and format the compressed voice and fax information into packets that can be carried over packets networks