Dialogic announces breakthrough in new computer telephony architecture

Business Wire, Jan 27, 1997

PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997--

Dialogic's new Mediastream Resource Architecture transforms how CT products are designed, delivering unprecedented performance, flexibility, and rapid time to market

Dialogic Corp. (NASDAQ:DLGC), the world's leading manufacturer of high performance, standards-based computer telephony (CT) components, today introduced its breakthrough DM3(TM) mediastream resource architecture, setting a new benchmark for performance, flexibility and rapid time to market. The DM3 mediastream resource architecture is a set of specifications and core firmware modules that govern how new Dialogic CT products are designed.

"The development of the DM3 mediastream architecture has been the single largest R&D effort in Dialogic's history. As a result, we've created a new class of embedded platforms that goes far beyond any particular combination of features and functions that exist today," said Howard Bubb, president and CEO of Dialogic.

Later this year, the company plans to begin rolling out a family of "mediastream processors," a new class of high performance products based on the DM3 architecture. Mediastream processors are general purpose embedded processors that manage multiple CT media technologies from multiple vendors simultaneously. This allows Dialogic or its partners to rapidly create competitively priced products that have unmatched flexibility and scalability. These CT firmware resource technologies include real time and message-based media processing for firmware resources such as voice, fax, voice over the Internet, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real time network signaling, such as SS7, ISDN, T-1, and E-1.

The features unique to DM3 mediastream processors include graphical open development tools, reusable and mixable media processing software modules, widely adopted real time operating systems, and DSP kernels.

"We are already seeing strong interest in systems that will incorporate products based on the DM3 mediastream architecture, particularly among PTTs. DM3's ability to support mixed resource modules, combined with its high density make it ideal for enhanced services applications in the public telephone networks," said Bruce Cohen, director of Computer Telephony Marketing for Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard, Mass. "Dialogic's DM3 architecture will help Digital meet our telecommunication customers' competitive needs."

DM3 enables rapid and flexible product development

DM3 products are built with the DMFast(TM) graphical development kit, modularly upgradeable processing elements, and industry standard buses and application programming interfaces (APIs). With Dialogic's DMFast graphical development tools, firmware resource developers can rapidly create and integrate high performance DSP and RISC processor-based firmware resources for deployment on a common set of very high performance hardware boards or platforms. DMFast development kits also offer a development environment for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who want to use open, standards-based solutions and simultaneously incorporate their own internally developed media processing technology.

"As one of the first companies to implement DM3, we share Dialogic's vision of standardized open architectures and recognize our unified messaging solutions can benefit greatly from DM3's flexibility and scalability," said Mark Ozur CEO of Digital Sound Corp., based in Santa Barbara, Calif. "The DM3 architecture offers high performance and high reliability, allowing us to differentiate our own applications and introduce applications from leading third party developers."

"The DM3 architecture is a leap forward from closed systems that perform dedicated tasks to open systems based on industry standards that can be easily extended. This new development from Dialogic supports the migration and re-use of standards-based products, benefiting suppliers and users alike. DM3 promises to deliver an increasingly dynamic development and integration environment -- speeding time to market and lowering cost of entry," said Traver Kennedy, director of WAN Research Worldwide at Aberdeen Group, Inc. in Boston, Mass.

DM3 hardware can be modularly upgraded or modified to support cutting edge processors and memory devices without requiring changes to existing applications and with little or no disruption to firmware resources on other sub-modules. DM3 creates this flexibility by enabling firmware resources to be independent of the underlying hardware.

DM3 Promotes Third Party Development

The DM3 architecture promotes third party CT firmware development, allowing Dialogic to offer an unmatched variety of different types and brands of firmware resources to its customers.

"Since firmware resources are portable across DM3 architecture hardware implementations, DM3 resources are available across all supported platforms including PCI, CompactPCI, and VME," said Desmond Picri, vice president of marketing for Dallas-based Voice Control Systems, Inc. "This allows us to maximize our return by penetrating multiple markets with just one development effort. It also gives our customers more options in running VCS speech recognition technology in their choice of computing environment."