Dialogic releases Windows-based multimedia development software

Dialogic today announced new communications software that could facilitate the evolution of conferencing services into multimedia services. Dubbed Dialogic PowerMedia Host Media Processing Software Release 5.0, the software is aimed at enabling service providers to build cloud-based HD voice and video solutions in both Linux and Windows.

The software “lines up with the transition to voice and media over IP,” said Bud Walder, marketing director for Dialogic, in an interview. “It lends itself well to virtualization and being deployed in data centers.”

A distributed platform
Dialogic has a long history of offering communications software (CP: Looking for Intel on the next form factor). Dialogic solutions initially were implemented as hardware and later as software that would be deployed on a customer’s server to support call center, automated notification and other applications. The software announced today can be implemented on an application server, which in turn could feed multiple media servers.

“You can keep adding media servers to scale up or down as [an application] warrants,” explained Walder.

The new software also can support a new way for customers to pay for offerings based on the Dialogic platform. “They could pay for media as a service instead of buying licenses,” noted Walder

Multimedia conferencing
In the service provider market, Walder said, the new software could be the basis for a multimedia conferencing service that would be “as simple to use as an audio conferencing bridge--and video becomes a part of it.” A unified conferencing service built on the Dialogic platform could support “narrowband audio conferencing and you can also add broadband voice or video and screen share functionality to [create] a richer experience,” said Walder.

Previously Dialogic supported a lot of multimedia work in Linux. The new offering, Walder said, brings that capability to a Windows environment.

Walder sees the 4G smartphone as a logical place to begin the deployment of converged multimedia offerings based on IP.