Dialogic and SunMicrosystems Partner for Internet Telephony Telco-Grade GatewaySolutions
October 28, 1998 10:00 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fl--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 28, 1998--
TECH SUMMIT 98
Telco UNIX Provider Teams with Leading Provider for IP Telephony Gateways
Dialogic Corporation DLGC a leading provider for Internet Protocol (IP) telephony gateways, today announced a relationship with Sun Microsystems to provide IP gateway solutions for the telco market. Dialogic will support the Sun Microsystems Solaris(tm) operating environment with DM3(tm) IPLink(tm), the industry-leading IP telephony platform. This joint effort will enable network service providers to deliver extremely robust, standards-based IP telephony gateways for the global communications marketplace.
Partnering for Solutions
The Dialogic DM3 IPLink platform is supporting the full line of Sun UltraSPARC(tm)/Solaris-based SPARCengine(tm) motherboards. For customers requiring UNIX(R) solutions, this will speed time to market and offer the ability to easily add applications to this single-board IP telephony solution. Developers will be able to reliably add IP telephony-based enhanced services to their telco network systems. Joint marketing programs are also planned to also insure that additional building blocks are available for the solutions.
"We are pleased to be working with the leading provider for IP telephony gateways," said Jeff Veis, group marketing manager of telecommunications products in the Microelectronics Division of Sun Microsystems. "The superior reliability and scalability of our SPARCengine platforms on the Solaris operating environment coupled with the Dialogic DM3 IPLink family is a perfect combination for the telco market. Together, we are providing OEM developers with solutions to build the reliable, robust IP telephony systems the telco and network service providers are demanding."
The DM3 IPLink platform will interoperate with the following Sun SPARCengine platforms: SPARCengine Ultra(tm) AXi (PCI-based ATX form factor offering), SPARCengine Ultra AXmp (PCI-based four-way OEM solution), and SPARCengine CP1500 (CompactPCI(R) board).
Expanding the Market
Jeff Pulver, president of Pulver.com commented, "The coupling of Dialogic and Sun is a natural for IP telephony and will certainly serve to broaden this ever-growing market. Customers and service providers want a wider selection of operating environments. This partnership expands the range of choice and will help accelerate the deployment of IP telephony platforms."
"The Solaris and DM3 IPLink board combination, coupled with our service creation tool, allows us to offer our customers the ideal UNIX development for IP telephony," said Ben Levy, president of APEX Voice Communications. "In addition, this extension will be significant to our APEX Prepaid System, providing opportunity for telcos, ISPs, and large corporations to use data networks as a call processing interface, rather than the traditional T-1, E-1, or analog connections."
Meeting Telco Market Demands
The telco market for IP telephony demands large systems with high reliability and serviceability. The Dialogic cPCI-based IP telephony product line offers either a single or dual, T-1 or E-1 span of gateway ports, all on a single board, in a single slot. With the ability to put 14 boards in a single chassis, system developers can build an IP telephony gateway scalable up to 840 ports. High reliability is achieved through the hot-swappable, telco design of the chassis and boards.
DM3 IPLink Reliability
The DM3 IPLink development platform from Dialogic is the industry's first complete, single-board, standards-based development platform for voice and fax over Internet protocol. DM3 IPLink is based on the Dialogic DM3 mediastream architecture, which provides a hardware foundation for the most powerful and scalable standards-based, carrier-grade platforms in the industry.
The IPLink family is based on open industry standards, supporting the H.323 protocol and delivering a high-quality G.723.1 coder, and is the first to include support for the International Telecommunication Union's standard T.38 coder for real-time fax over IP, available at no additional charge. The DM3 IPLink product family currently supports Microsoft(R) Windows NT. Support for Sun Solaris will be available in the first quarter of 1999 for PCI versions and later for cPCI versions.
About Sun Microsystems
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is the Computer," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. SUNW , to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding power of the Internet. With more than $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com.
About Dialogic Corporation
Dialogic Corporation is the leading manufacturer of high-performance, high-availability, standards-based computer telephony (CT) components. Dialogic products are used in voice, IP telephony, fax, data, voice recognition, speech synthesis, and call center management applications in both the CPE and public network environments. The company is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, with regional headquarters in Tokyo, Brussels, and Buenos Aires, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit the Dialogic Web site at dialogic.com.
Dialogic is a registered trademark, and DM3 and IPLink are trademarks of Dialogic Corporation. All other names, products, and services mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective organizations.
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