Dialogic teams with ECTF members--AT&T, Digital, Hewlett-Packard and Tandem--to promote new open framework for enhanced services.PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 1996-- Initiative addresses time-to-market, scalability and product differentiation issues for service providers Dialogic di·a·log·ic also di·a·log·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or written in dialogue. di  a·log Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQin 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), the world's leading manufacturer of high performance standards-based computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration components, today reinforced its commitment to the service provider market by licensing AT&T's Integrated Services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. Platform middleware and announcing a program to develop and promote additional third party solutions based on the Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum (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. ) S.100 Application Programming Interface (API) and Dialogic's Signal Computing System Architecture (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. ). This effort is designed to speed the acceptance of standards and the development of interoperable, multi-vendor voice and call processing In telecommunication, the term call processing has the following meanings:
To encourage S.100 adoption, AT&T's Information Services See Information Systems. Platform will be promoted and marketed by Dialogic under the name, "modular Services Platform" (mSP), which consists of a family of UNIX-based middleware components. It enables application developers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), using the S.100 APIs, to develop a new class of voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. services for the public telephone network based on open computing See open system and open source. systems. Dialogic will actively recruit third-party toolkit, application, integrator, and platform partners to create a diverse set of S.100-based solutions that can operate with mSP and S.100-compatible solutions from other vendors. In addition, Dialogic will work to promote and publicize pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] mSP and all S.100 partner products through an S.100 solutions guide, providing a common, central reference for interoperable S.100 resources, tools, applications and support products. "Our primary goal in licensing mSP is to provide an environment for developers so they can create networked voice processing services using shared open systems computing and standard Internet communications protocols," said Howard Bubb, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Dialogic. "With this initiative, OEMs, system integrators, and application vendors will spend less time developing low-level core technology and more time providing differentiating solutions to their service provider customers while meeting demanding time-to-market requirements. We have laid the groundwork for service providers to offer multivendor services such as voice activated dialing, personal agent, debit card debit card, card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account. , and 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. from best-of-class applications suppliers, all using a single pool of shared SCSA resources." "AT&T is working with Dialogic and other ECTF partners to help our application suppliers by supporting a broader, standards-enabled market," said Randy Pilc, AT&T User Experience Technology Center of Excellence vice president. "AT&T will benefit from multivendor application solutions built on a common software platform." "With a broadly accepted framework like ECTF S.100, Digital's application and tool developer partners now have the ability to focus on the human interface and call handling, and don't need to spend as much time on common platform features such as management, logging, and provisioning. Digital's large-scale solution providers can apply their creativity towards developing services which will create competitive advantage for service providers," said Irene Nagler, Communications Technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry business manager, Digital Equipment Corporation. "HP's strong relationships with our ECTF partners, AT&T and Dialogic, results in solutions which promote open frameworks such as the modular Services Platform," said Gail E. Hamilton, general manager of HP's Telecom Products Division. "Furthermore, our customers will benefit in time-to-market and choice of applications enabled by S.100 compliant middleware on HP's robust open-systems based adjunct platforms." "With documented API's and open interfaces, ECTF S.100 servers reduce the barriers to entry for innovative services in carrier networks," said Eric Dogget, senior vice president, Tandem Telecommunications Platform Group. "The heterogeneous, distributed architecture and the scalability of solutions built around the S.100 standard are a natural fit for the service provider market." "Deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. is the last straw last straw n. The last of a series of annoyances or disappointments that leads one to a final loss of patience, temper, trust, or hope. [ for today's closed public switched network architecture," said Hilary Mine, senior vice president, Probe Research. "Carrier requirements for differentiation, speed, and low cost/low risk, extremely scaleable networks are driving the movement towards client/server architectures in the Public Switched Telephone Network at an accelerating pace. This implementation of the ECTF standard lays the software foundation for this movement. mSP is a sign of the times A Sign of the Times was a 1966 single by Petula Clark. Written by Tony Hatch, the uptempo pop number juxtaposed Clark's driving vocals with a powerful brass section. She introduced the tune on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 27, 1966. as software begins to replace hardware as the key value of any network" Background Information The Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum was founded in March of 1995 by Dialogic, Ericsson, Digital Equipment, Hewlett- Packard, and Northern Telecom. It is chartered with promoting and developing specifications for open, multivendor, interoperable control and management of voice, media, and call processing resources. The ECTF currently includes over 70 members representing a broad cross section of the computing and telecommunications industry. The companies on the board of directors include AT&T, Brooktrout, Database Network Services, Digital, Dialogic, Fujitsu, Mitel, Northern Telecom, and Siemens. The S.100 API effort, ECTF's first major output, represents the result of many thousands of hours of effort and contributions from over 30 companies. The ECTF S.100 API set allows developers to quickly and easily create interoperable applications on a common software platform, sharing common computing, trunking, and voice processing resources which are vendor-independent. Its enhanced services framework facilitates the rapid development of rich network supported services, including: personal agent, voice dialing, one number/follow me, and voice-enabled World Wide Web pages. To provide these services, the mSP middleware will support the ECTF S.100 specifications for basic call control, voice, speech recognition, fax, and text-to-speech technologies. mSP provides a Unix-based set of network API's which support building voice systems scaleable from a single pentium processor to a network of heterogeneous machines from Digital, HP, Tandem, and others. S.100 applications that run on mSP components may be developed with a third-generation language Also known as a 3GL, it refers to a high-level programming language such as FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal and C. It is a step above assembly language and a step below fourth-generation language (4GL). For an example of the difference between a 3GL and a 4GL, see fourth-generation language. , such as C or C++, or through the use of multivendor graphical service creation tools that output S.100-compatible code. Dialogic will actively recruit additional third-party application developers and provide support to these S.100 based partners, including technical training and test facilities. Dialogic will also work with partners to compile and promote an S.100 solutions guide. This partner program will be initiated in the first quarter of 1997. Product Availability The mSP software is developed and maintained under contract to AT&T by Amteva Technologies Amteva Technologies was a pioneer in unified messaging using open standards. It was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999. of Richmond, VA. Dialogic and AT&T will work through Amteva to deliver the mSP product. Dean Dodrill, president of Amteva, chairs the ECTF Technical Committee, the group responsible for the S.100 specification. The mSP software development platform is currently in a limited number of AT&T network trials and will be generally available in an S.100 developer's release to systems integrators and OEMs in the first quarter of 1997, supporting analog and digital network interfaces, voice processing, and fax. Pricing will be announced prior to release. Dialogic plans to provide an mSP resource development kit that will enable other component and platform providers to integrate into mSP new technologies such as speech recognition, text-to-speech and compression algorithms for large voice, text, and image files. Future developer kits will allow extension of mSP to support SS7 signaling and interfaces to programmable switches. Additional details will be posted on Dialogic's home page in early November. Please visit Dialogic's Web page at http://www.dialogic.com/company/presroom/pressrel/msp.htm. About Dialogic Corporation Dialogic Corporation is the leading manufacturer of high performance, standards-based computer telephony (CT) components. Computer telephony systems built with Dialogic products manage more than one third of all telephone, facsimile, and multi-media calls answered by computers over wireless and wired networks worldwide. Dialogic products are used in voice, fax, data, voice recognition, speech synthesis speech synthesis Generation of speech by artificial means, usually by computer. Production of sound to simulate human speech is referred to as low-level synthesis. High-level synthesis deals with the conversion of written text or symbols into an abstract representation of 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. -0- Trademarks: All names, products and services mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective organizations. CONTACT: Editorial Contact: Analyst Contacts: Rosabel Tao Bartholomew Stanco Dialogic Corporation VP Networking Technologies 201-993-3000, X6320 Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. R.Tao@dialogic.com 203-316-1111 or Hilary Mine Senior Vice President Probe Research 916-989-1008 |
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