Media and signal processing technology developer Dialogic Corporation has announced its latest series of products — seven PCI Express compatible media boards. These latest boards are, essentially, sister products to the company’s PCI universal boards in terms of features and functionality, but also provide for complete backwards compatibility enabling solution providers to integrate the new boards into their existing systems and applications with little modification.  

 

Dialogic was formed when the former Eicon Networks acquired Intel’s (News - Alert) media and signaling operation, and then renamed the new entity. But, based on the strength of its parent organizations, Dialogic is not playing catch-up. In fact, based on its latest boards, the new Dialogic (News - Alert) is keeping pace with changing technology, recognizing that PCI Express is growing in popularity among server manufacturers looking to provide the latest enhancements to their hardware, like packet prioritization capabilities to enable QoS. 

 

The new PCIe boards will provider developers, OEMs, and integrators even greater choice of servers on which to build their communications solutions for service providers or enterprises, integrating the latest converged communications applications into those solutions.

 

The new 12-port analog and dual span T1/E1 Dialogic JCT series boards, as well as single span T1/E1 Dialogic Diva series boards are available now, and are designed to easily integrate with existing Dialogic PCI boards.

 

“While our main development focus is on media and signaling products that enable IP, wireless and video communication solutions, we recognize the importance of keeping our existing media board products compatible with the latest platform technologies,” said Jim Machi, vice president of product marketing at Dialogic.

 

Dialogic says it plans to introduce additional versions of its PCIe boards, also backwards compatible with its other existing boards, throughout the year.

 

“We are taking a phased approach to providing our market leading products in PCI Express form factor to ensure our customers flexibility in their choice of servers and server bus architecture,” added Machi.