Dialogic First to Implement Real-Time Fax Over Internet Protocol — IP —

Business Wire, March 30, 1998

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1998--

Expanded DM3 IPLink(tm) Product Line Delivers Real-Time Fax Over

IP Based on T.38 Standard

Dialogic Corporation (NASDAQ: DLGC) (Booth No. 1) today announced it has implemented the industry's first standards-based solution for delivering real-time fax over Internet Protocol (IP). This capability, based on the emerging ITU T.38 standard, adds real-time fax to the DM3 IPLink line of products, the industry's first complete, H.323 standards-based server development platform for building IP telephony solutions. It provides a powerful platform for sophisticated applications such as public network and enterprise fax and voice/fax over IP networks.

"Adding real-time fax to the IPLink family further establishes the Dialogic solution as the premier open IP telephony server platform: powerful, standards-based with the largest number of solution partners," explained Larry Fromm, vice president of New Business Development, Dialogic Corporation. "Since it integrates both voice and fax, the Dialogic platform requires no modifications to the application. The same application that uses voice today will run on this platform seamlessly, switching between voice and fax."

Powerful Solution for Applications Over IP

Dialogic is demonstrating the capabilities of the new real-time fax standard at the VON (Voice On the Net) Show, taking place this week in San Jose, California. The Dialogic IP telephony demonstration shows a powerful solution for corporate and carrier-class IP telephony applications combining voice and fax.

Also on display are two fully operational H.323 IP telephony gateways. In this configuration, a voice phone call, placed from the handset of a fax machine, is connected over the IP network using either the G.723.1 or G.711 voice coder. When a fax transmission starts, the H.323 gateway immediately detects the fax tone, switches to fax mode and delivers the fax in real time using the T.38 fax standard. As soon as the fax has been sent, the call returns to voice mode.

The new DM3 IPLink Release 3 demonstrated at CT Expo and on display this week, also includes an on-board network interface controller, PSTN interfaces and an integrated H.323 protocol stack. The demo, consisting of a 480-port IP telephony chassis (8 boards with 60 GSM ports each), is based on DM3 hardware. In addition, Dialogic will demonstrate an SS7 - IP gateway with DM3 IPLink running in a Compact PCI(R) (cPCI) chassis.

Building Open Communication Solutions

"By adopting this new real-time fax standard, Dialogic continues to build on the strength of an open, standards-based and increasingly dynamic development and integration environment -- the DM3 architecture -- that will speed vendor and application developer time to market and lower the cost of solutions to end users," explained Pete Davidson, fax industry analyst, Davidson Consulting and International Data Corporation. "Real-time IP fax is critical to the seamless IP telephony services and solutions that virtually every major service and solution provider will want to offer within the next few years, since telephony gateways will continue to process PSTN-borne streams of calls in which voice and fax calls are mixed indiscriminately."

"In this highly competitive environment, the need for powerful, cost-effective and versatile communications solutions have never been greater," said Maury Kauffman, analyst, The Kauffman Group. "With this announcement today, Dialogic is once again demonstrating its commitment to deliver on the critical standards required to deliver the most powerful, high performance solutions to the marketplace."

Powered by DM3

The DM3 IPLink product line is based on the Dialogic DM3(tm) mediastream resource architecture, which provides a powerful platform to develop and deploy both IP telephony and messaging-based computer telephony (CT) solutions. DM3 is scalable from low density, 4-port analog solutions up to the Dialogic QuadSpan(tm) products, which provide up to 120 ports of voice processing on a single board, in a single slot.

DM3 IP Link allows developers to build multimedia servers to handle IP-based voice and traffic data. Open and standards-based, DM3 IPLink allows interoperability with many kinds of clients, providing application developers with the widest customer base. DM3 IPLink is also supported by the broadest suite of third-party tools from leading tools providers such as Apex, Artisoft, Mediasoft, MG2, Parity Software and RING!

About Dialogic Corporation

Dialogic Corporation is the leading manufacturer of high-performance, standards-based CT components. Dialogic products are used in voice, fax, data, voice recognition, speech synthesis, call center management and IP telephony applications. The company is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, with regional headquarters in Tokyo and Brussels and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit the Dialogic Web site at http://www.dialogic.com. -0- All names, products and services mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective organizations.