Dialogic Corp, Parsippany, New Jersey has launched an object-oriented software architecture, the SCSA Telephony Application Object Framework, as part of its Signal Computing System Architecture initiative for distributed computer telephony applications (CI No 2,120). According to the company, the architecture is the only call processing standard to contain both comprehensive hardware and software architectures and has support from more than 240 other companies. It is aimed at applications such as local network-based interactive voice response and unified voice and electronic mail messaging. Dialogic also announced that application programming interfaces for its signal architecture are available, providing a hardware- and vendor-independent interface with the SCSA Telephony Application Object. Dialogic says this means software developers no longer need to control hardware and software resources directly by means of their physical location. Under SCSA Telephony Application Object, both locally hosted and remote applications can control the underlying server using the same interfaces. And with appropriate software to control the underlying server system, says Dialogic, applications can be implemented on MVIP Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol or proprietary systems. There are two types of programming interface: Technology Resource interfaces, which provide a vendor-independent interface for an application to control hardware and software resources; and Systems Services interfaces, designed to enable applications to control detailed server maangement tasks, including dynamic resource maangement and call routing.
