Dialogic Corp, the Parsippany, New Jersey progenitor of Signal Computing System Architecture and a specialist in computer- integrated telephony, is joining forces with Israel’s Internet Phone software specialist VocalTec Inc. The partnership will build, market and distribute hardware and software components for Internet and intranet telephony servers that enable transmission of real-time speech over data networks such as the Internet. With Internet telephony servers, Dialogic reckons, systems integrators will be able to create a variety of applications that use the Internet as a low-cost switching and transmission network for computer-to-telephone and telephone-to-telephone calls. One class of possible application would be the hop-off server, where a subscriber with a sound-enabled personal computer places a call over the Internet to a server equipped with analog or digital telephone trunks, which then extends the call to the local telephone net. The servers will also enable calls initiated from a phone to be carried over the Internet and then terminated at another phone.
