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August 31, 2009

Dialogic Pushes out DiaStar Server, Announces Sponsorship of Project DiaStar

By Tim Gray, TMCnet Web Editor

Montreal-based provider of multimedia and signaling technologies and platforms Dialogic (News - Alert) Corporation has introduced its latest open source project designed to allow developers access to portions of its product portfolio in an effort to expand communications technologies among the community.


 
In addition to sponsoring the open source program called Project DiaStar, Dialogic has announced its DiaStar Server, or DSS – the first available software developed from Project DiaStar. 
 
The DSS acts as multi-function peripheral that can be implemented as a media gateway, signaling gateway or media server, according to Steve Gladstone, senior vice president and general manager of Media Enabling Product Group for Dialogic. 
 
“The DSS offers open source telephony developers the opportunity to leverage features provided by Dialogic Products, such as Dialogic Perfect Call, which provides Call Progress Analysis, Positive Voice Detection and Answering Machine Detection,” said Gladstone.
 
According to Gladstone, the DSS supports Asterisk (News - Alert) implementation by using the open source Woomera protocol and is a Woomera-compliant server designed to operate with projects or products that implement a corresponding Woomera client. 
 
Other key features of the DSS include:
  • The DSS creates a client/server architecture for Asterisk or FreeSWITCH.
  • Distributed architecture allows media and signaling functions to be abstracted and moved from a telephony server to the DSS.
    Abstracts and encapsulates media, signaling, and gateway functions.
  • Multiple configurations, including one telephony server to one DSS, multiple telephony servers to one DSS, or one telephony server to multiple DSSs.
    Compatible with Dialogic HMP Interface Boards.
  • Supports video, SS7 signaling, fax and FoIP.
    Up to 24 spans (720 simultaneous calls) of TDM connectivity per DSS.

“We believe that this market has now matured to the point where participants are finding opportunities that can only be addressed effectively by the kinds of technology that Dialogic provides,” said Gladstone.
 
And for a company that focuses on helping customers and partners provide innovative IP, wireless, and video solutions, these types of opportunities are being found across a broad spectrum of applications.
 
In a recent interview with TMC CEO Rich Tehrani (News - Alert), James Rafferty, product line director of integrated media gateways at Dialogic Corporation, said his company is seeing exciting new applications and approaches as “customers continue their progress toward adapting IP-based technologies for voice networks and solutions.”
 
Rafferty is speaking during a session at ITEXPO (News - Alert) West 2009, to be held Sept. 1 to Sept. 3 in Los Angeles, in a talk titled “Is VoIP Dead? Where Do We Stand?”
 
At the ITEXPO (News - Alert) event, a panel of industry experts – including Rafferty –  will talk about the reality of Voice over IP in today’s marketplace, as well as who what are hot new use cases driving new VoIP rollouts and how VoIP is beginning to show up in the wireless world.

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Tim Gray is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To read more of Tim’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Tim Gray

(source: http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/mobile-video/articles/63280-dialogic-pushes-out-diastar-server-announces-sponsorship-project.htm)

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