[November 14, 2000]

Telspec, Dialogic To Develop New Class Of VoIP Services To Meet Demands Of Communications Service Provider Market

Telspec, a provider of access and switching solutions to worldwide telecommunications service providers, announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dialogic Corporation, an Intel company.

Under the terms of the MoU, Dialogic will provide key voice over IP (VoIP), microprocessor and network interface technologies to enhance the capabilities of Telspec's next generation Intelligent Multi-Service Platform (IMSP). The two companies will also engage in joint marketing and promotional activities and work together to propose technical solutions for service providers.

The Telspec IMSP is one of the industry's first network-based systems to combine a switching platform, a VoIP gateway and a value-added services platform in a single system. The product is targeted at telcos, Intelligent Network operators, ISPs and other network-based service providers. Value-added services that can be provided from the IMSP platform today include calling card, unified messaging and televoting services.

As a result of the technical enhancements being made to the IMSP through the introduction of Dialogic's technology, the platform will be able to support:

• Higher densities (up to 240 lines per chassis).
• Multicast Voice over IP services for live audio distribution (a technique that optimizes use of an IP network for large-scale live audio services).

These enhancements are expected to be available to customers by 1st Quarter 2001.

Within the IMSP, Telspec is integrating Dialogic's QuadSpanT voice processing and network interface technology as well as its IPLinkT VoIP technology. The Dialogic QuadSpan platform provides up to 120 ports of DSP processing and four E-1 (Primary Rate ISDN) interfaces in a single slot. The IPLink Internet Protocol (IP) telephony platform is a standards-based software and hardware development platform for IP telephony servers.

Both are based on the Dialogic DM3 mediastream resource architecture that provides a hardware foundation for the most powerful and scalable standards-based, carrier-grade platforms in the industry. The DM3 architecture supports a broad range of multimedia types including speech recognition, conferencing, voice, fax, and text-to-speech.

"We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Telspec," said Howard Bubb, president, Dialogic Corporation, and vice president, Intel Communications Products Group. "As organizations continue to implement e-business solutions, and as the role of leading network-based service providers evolves, Telspec is addressing the needs of major operators such as BT with innovative, large-scale and practical solutions."

Telspec's Intelligent Multi-Service Platform integrate narrowband switching, Voice over IP gateway and Intelligent Network services into a single system, allowing a seamless transition from today's circuit-switched networks to the new converged networks based on the Internet Protocol. The scalable network architecture and centralized, web-based service management system allow network operators and service providers to deploy large scale, high revenue generating services such as Televoting.

Magnus Braxell, CEO Telspec, commented, "As we expand Telspec's Intelligent Switching business to address the huge opportunities arising from the convergence of computing and telecommunications, it is vital we have early access to leading edge computing and voice processing technologies. Dialogic is a world leader in these areas and we are delighted to be working with them."

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