Dialogic Delivers Industry's First High Performance PCI Products For CT Applications.PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 9, 1997-- -- CT Developers Gain Up To 40 Percent Improvement In Application Performance -- Dialogic Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DLGC) today announced the general availability of the industry's first high density, processor independent PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). (Peripheral Component Interconnect See PCI. (hardware) Peripheral Component Interconnect - (PCI) A standard for connecting peripherals to a personal computer, designed by Intel and released around Autumn 1993. PCI is supported by most major manufacturers including Apple Computer. ) computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration product, the D/240PCI-T1(TM). The E-1 version, D/300PCI-E See PCI Express. 1(TM), will be generally available in October. In addition to a 40 percent improvement in the performance of their applications, developers can now take advantage of the low-cost PCI servers widely available on the market. With up to 30 ports of DSP-based voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. and digital network interface, these products are PCI versions of the industry's most popular high density CT boards, the Dialogic D/240SC-T1(TM) and D/300SC-E1(TM). Unmatched Technology Innovation The combination of high density and performance enables OEMs and developers to build more powerful solutions for the most demanding CT applications, including: IP (Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. ) telephony gateways, call center solutions, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. systems, and media servers deployed in the enterprise and public network. Industry analysts predict that a growing number of media processing-intensive CT applications will be hosted on enterprise PCI servers, such as those recently announced by leading server manufacturers. The D/240PCI-T1 and D/300PCI-E1 provide the network protocol support, voice processing features and sophisticated switching fabric required to bridge multiple technology resources like fax, IP connectivity, and speech technologies on these PCI servers. "We are extremely pleased with the performance, scalability, and reliability of the D/240PCI-T1 and the D/300PCI-E1," said Todd Fitch, senior software engineer, Special Advanced Technology Group at Centigram cen·ti·gram n. A metric unit of mass equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a gram. centigram one-hundredth of a gram; abbreviated cg. Communications Corporation, "and are not surprised that Dialogic is first to market with PCI-based CT products." Standards Leadership Dialogic has worked closely with the PCI SIG (PCI Special Interest Group), an independent association of members of the microcomputer industry, to ensure that the company's implementations of PCI technology meet industry standards. During recent PCI SIG interoperability testing, the D/240PCI-T1 and D/300PCI-E1 were certified as compliant with the PCI SIG specification 2.1. In addition, the products successfully interoperated in every platform from a range of vendors participating in the PCI SIG workshop. D/240PCI-T1 and D/300PCI-E1 are also designed to transparently interoperate with the ECTF's new H.100 CTbus standards for PCI platforms. "We don't just talk standards, we deliver them. That's why it is important that our PCI products comply with PCI SIG and ECTF (Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum, www.ectf.org) An industry association founded in 1996 that provides a clearinghouse for technical standards for voice and data integration in the computer telephony arena. specifications," said John Landau, vice president, Dialogic Architecture Labs. "Building on the broadest line of CT products in the industry, Dialogic is delivering a family of PCI products, enabling our customers to reduce time to market, leverage development resources, and offer truly global communications solutions." The PCI product versions are also designed to the SCSA (Signal Computing System Architecture) An open architecture for transmitting voice and video signals. Its backbone is the SCbus, a 131 Mbps data path that provides up to 2,048 time slots, the equivalent of 1,024 two-way voice conversations at 64 Kbps. (TM) standards-based architecture, which allows developers currently on ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. platforms to easily migrate to PCI platforms, with no impact to existing applications. Both products are also supported under Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (TM) and by robust third-party development tools, reducing time-to-market. "Parity is excited to be delivering the first WinNT(TM) toolkit, supporting Dialogic's PCI products," said Bob Edgar, president, Parity Software. "Dialogic is delivering on its promise to grow the CT industry and is empowering its customers to build more powerful and cost-effective applications for the global market." D/240PCI-T1 and D/300PCI-E1 The D/240 PCI-T1 and D/300PCI-E1 offer the same features and application compatibility as the industry's most popular voice processing products for ISA platforms, Dialogic's D/240SC-T1(TM) and D/300SC-E1(TM). These PCI products offer digital network interfaces with ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. that have been approved for use worldwide and up to 30 channels of DSP- based voice processing capabilities including voice compression, recording, and playback; and signaling features such as tone processing, call progress analysis, and switching. Price and Availability The D/240PCI-T1 is shipping in volume, supported under Windows NT. The D/300PCI-E1, will be generally available in October. Dialogic will also release the products for SCO Unix and Solaris developers in the fourth quarter of 1997. In typical volumes for a developer, the D/240PCI-T1 is priced at $3,950 and D/300PCI-E1 is $5,125 -- the same price as the ISA versions. For more information visit the Dialogic Web site at www.dialogic.com. About Dialogic Dialogic Corporation is the leading manufacturer of high performance, standards-based computer telephony (CT) components. Dialogic products are used in voice, fax, data, voice recognition, speech synthesis and call center management CT applications. The company is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, with regional headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, Brussels, Belgium, and has sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit the Dialogic Web Site http://www.dialogic.com. -0- Trademarks: All names, products and services mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective organizations. CONTACT: Dialogic Corporation Jane Mazur 201-993-3000, Ext. 6118 J.Mazur@dialogic.com |
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