I found this on the Parity home page. I would like to think this is one of many success stories coming from Dialogic OEM partners.
Though not dated...keep in mind, Parity and Dialogic have been partners for no more than a year.
I find it interesting - The message sounding like SCSA Bus being a new cutting edge technology. This reinstates an important messages for the IT savvy investor. IMO: The development of software has always been a click or two behind the hardware. When taking software in beta and hardware from R&D into consideration, it sort of evens things out.
This might leave one to think: What is or is not hype?
An example: Microsoft Windows 3.11 and the multitasking environment it contained. Was it hype? IMO: Yes and no. It did multitask, but true seemless running of programs simultaneously came with multithreading. That process did not really come to fruition until the microprocessor was able to multithread...the Pentiumm. Without going into the technical differences... to multitask or multithread are very different in their approach to the program running in memory and/or its own thread within a range of memory space.
My point being: Does the hype or new (beta)product launch really matter in terms of affecting ones decision making when it comes to buying the stocks of the companies that will succeed in these IT industries/technologies. I don't think so.
The Parity message speaks of something most techno-savvy types would think obsolete..when actually, that product is not even close to obsolete. It is what the mainstream of computer users are using now.
Ironically...This does not only apply to CTI
Best wishes to all.
<snip>
Million-Dollar Savings
Two million call minutes per month
Three weeks to build
One VOS system.
PCS Telecom has built a PC-based telephone switching platform that sets a new
record: 240 lines in one PC. That's ten
T-1 trunks for the system they designed for a long-distance reseller and debit-card
service provider. "We're replacing his
million dollar switch, basically," says David Dragon, PCS's VP of development.
PCS is shifting the bulk of its customer's established traffic to a Dialogic SC bus-based
system that uses a Pentium
processor on a 20-slot backplane, RAID (redundant array) hard drives, and fiber
connections. Our former installations
were PEB-based on multiple nodes," Dragon observes. "Now with SCSA we can do
much higher density in one PC
chassis, which is a lot more cost-effective, and more scaleable."
One PC
"The good thing about a single chassis is it allows us to compete with larger switch
manufacturers. We can offer the
custom features and control that larger manufacturers cannot provide, while also
offering the same density at fraction of
the cost. We can be very competitive," says Dragon. Future plans include plugging
T-1s into all 20 slots and then
spanning multiple chassis with SCxBus adapters.
Three Weeks
The application took three weeks to program from start to finish using Parity
Software's VOS 5 applications language,
and Dialogic's SCSA based system release 4.1SC. Voice resources and network
interfaces are provided by four
D/240SC-T1s and six DTI/240SCs; interconnection and timeslot switching is
accomplished over the SCBus.
Two Million Minutes
PCS's customer resells "a couple million minutes a month" of long distance, dialing
callers back and providing U.S. dial
tone. Given this dial tone, international callers can dial out across the globe and pay
lower U.S.-carrier rates. The voice
script for this application, prompting callers to input their account or debit card
number, can be played over 96 ports at a
time; PCS is working on exceeding that too.
With so many switchable T-1 lines, Dragon's firm can hook up multiple carriers to the
switch, each with rates that favor
particular destinations. And because all are accessible over the same bus and so many
timeslots are available he can
implement a sophisticated least-cost routing function for his end user. As international
calls are placed, they are matched
by their country code against a rate table. "By using our trunk groups along with our
rate tables, we can route those calls
through the T-1s that we specify," says Dragon. This way calls to Brazil may go out
through MCI and calls to Holland
through Sprint. In addition, if a large volume of calls are made to destinations that are in
the switch's local area, say, from
South America to the New York City area PCS's least-cost routing algorithms allow
the switch to call out on a local
exchange carrier trunk, saving the reseller even more in long-distance charges.
Dragon is effusive in his praise for Parity Software's and Dialogic's tech support staffs.
"With our systems running phone
companies, we need a very reliable product," added Dragon. "Using Dialogic and
VOS allows us to sleep at night." <snip> |
