Dialexia Communications, Inc. is a privately held Canadian

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headquartered in

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, that develops, manufactures, and sells VoIP-based

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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 A voicemail system (also known as voice message or voice bank) is a computer-based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to ind ...

caller ID Caller identification (Caller ID) is a telephone service, available in analog and digital telephone systems, including voice over IP (VoIP), that transmits a caller's telephone number to the called party's telephone equipment when the call is ...

call forwarding Call forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination, which may be, for example, a mobile or another telephone number where the desired called party is ...

& call recording into their virtual PBX. In a November 2014 press release, Dialexia announced the addition of

WebRTC WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is a free and open-source project providing web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication (RTC) via application programming interfaces (APIs). It allows audio and video communication to wor ...

capabilities to its line of PBX software products. Founded in

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in 2001, the company is a member of the

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History

Soon after its establishment, Dialexia released

Dial-Office IP-PBX Dial-Office IP-PBX is a SIP-based IP- PBX business phone system, first released in 2003 by Canadian telecommunications software provider Dialexia. The software allows users to connect multiple phones (e.g., extensions, ring groups, etc.), share l ...

, an

IP PBX An IP PBX ("Internet Protocol private branch exchange") is a system that connects telephone extensions to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and provides internal communication for a business. An IP PBX is a PBX system with IP connectivi ...

platform designed as an alternative to the circuit-switched telephone network. 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 Dial-Gate VoIP Softswitch is a SIP-based IP- PBX software for businesses, first released in 2006 by Canadian VoIP PBX solution provider Dialexia. The software serves as a web-based softswitch and billing server for VoIP and PSTN networks. On Jun ...

, a web-based

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and billing server based on the

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. A softswitch, short for software switch, is a central device in a

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which connects

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s 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 HERO Hosted PBX is a SIP-based hosted IP- PBX business phone system, first released in 2008 by Canadian telecommunications software provider Dialexia. The HERO (Hosted Enterprise Remote Office) software allows users to connect multiple phones (e. ...

, a hosted PBX platform made for operators and large corporations wanting to host

services on office grounds.

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History

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