Dialexia Communications, Inc. is a privately held Canadian corporation headquartered in

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, that develops, manufactures, and sells VoIP-based Telecommunication products and services. The company specializes in the development of webRTC-enabled PBX software for organizations in specific sectors of activity, notably education & hospitality. Dialexia software enables users to connect multiple phones (e.g.,

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s, ring groups, etc.), share lines among several phones and implement business PBX telephone phone features such as voicemail, caller ID, call forwarding & call recording into their virtual PBX. In a November 2014 press release, Dialexia announced the addition of WebRTC capabilities to its line of PBX software products. Founded in Montreal in 2001, the company is a member of the

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History

Soon after its establishment, Dialexia released Dial-Office IP-PBX, an IP PBX platform designed as an alternative to the

circuit-switched telephone network The public switched telephone network (PSTN) provides infrastructure and services for public telecommunication. The PSTN is the aggregate of the world's circuit-switched telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local teleph ...

. PBX is a system that connects telephone extensions of a company to outside public telephone network as well as to mobile networks. On May 21, 2014, Dial-Office was named runner-up in the IP-PBX Servers category of WindowsNetworking.com 2013-14 Readers' Choice Awards. In 2003, Dialexia released Dial-Gate Softswitch PBX, a web-based softswitch and billing server based on the

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. A softswitch, short for software switch, is a central device in a telecommunications network which connects telephone calls from one

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to another, across a telecommunication network or the public Internet, entirely by means of software running on a general-purpose computer system. In 2008, the company released HERO Hosted PBX, a hosted PBX platform made for operators and large corporations wanting to host IP PBX services on office grounds.

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