Eicon Networks Corporation, formerly Eicon Technology Corporation, is a privately owned designer, developer and

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communication Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

products founded on October 12, 1984, with

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, Canada. Eicon products are sold worldwide through a large network of

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and

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, and supplied to OEMs. In October 2006, Eicon purchased the Media & Signalling Division of

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, known as Dialogic before its purchase by Intel in 1999, which produces telephony boards for PC servers. The combined Eicon/Dialogic company changed its name to

Dialogic Corporation Dialogic Group, Inc., formerly Dialogic Corporation, was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States. Prior to its acquisition by Enghouse Systems of Ontario in 2020, it had operations in ...

at the time of the purchase. It is meanwhile known as Dialogic Inc.

Products

Eicon's products include the Diva Family (Diva Server and Diva Client) and Eiconcard product lines.

Diva Server

Diva Server is a range of telecoms products for voice, speech, conferencing and fax. It supports T1/ E1; SS7;

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the digitalised circuits of the public switched telephone network. ...

and conventional phone line (

PSTN The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators. It provides infrastructure and services for public telephony. The PSTN consists ...

). As of 2008 Eicon

Host Media Processing A telephony system based on host media processing (HMP) is one that uses a general-purpose computer to process a telephony call’s media stream rather than using digital signal processors (DSPs) to perform the task. When telephony call streams sta ...

products, "software adapters" that provide

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also known as IP telephony, is a set of technologies used primarily for voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. VoIP enables voice calls to be transmitted as ...

capability for applications, are available. Diva Server is used in

VoiceXML VoiceXML (VXML) is a digital document standard for specifying interactive media and voice dialogs between humans and computers. It is used for developing audio and voice response applications, such as banking systems and automated customer service ...

speech servers; SMS gateways; fax and unified messaging and call recording and monitoring.

Diva Client

Diva products are connectivity products for remote access for the home and for remote and mobile workers. They are mostly

or combined ISDN and dialup

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s. In the past Eicon produced

ADSL Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a type of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over Copper wire, copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem ...

and

Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for Wireless LAN, local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by ...

equipment, but these areas have become dominated by far-eastern manufacturers.

Eiconcard

The Eiconcard connects legacy

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systems for tasks such as credit card authorization,

SMS Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile phones exchange short text messages, t ...

, and

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. The Eiconcard has been produced since the company was founded in 1984, and continues to be available. Eicon cards with their flexible protocol stacks were also used as a flexible communications gateway to IBM's midrange and mainframe computers and for a time occupied a niche market allowing Ethernet based PC networks to utilise IBM's LU6.2 (intelligent) communications router without having to use

Token Ring Token Ring is a Physical layer, physical and data link layer computer networking technology used to build local area networks. It was introduced by IBM in 1984, and standardized in 1989 as IEEE Standards Association, IEEE 802.5. It uses a sp ...

Graphics Products

Eicon has also produced graphics products alongside their core communications business.

Eiconscript

Eiconscript was a PostScript printing solution which used a laser 'print engine' connected to an intelligent adapter installed inside a PC. The adapter card ran an Eicon developed implementation of the PostScript language.

Eiconjet

Eiconjet was a laser printing solution using a design and hardware similar to Eiconscript. Rather than PostScript, it executed the Hewlett-Packard PCL5 (

Printer Command Language Printer Command Language, more commonly referred to as PCL, is a page description language (PDL) developed by Hewlett-Packard as a printer protocol and has become a '' de facto'' industry standard. Originally developed for early inkjet printe ...

). The Eiconjet software was also developed in-house as a

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References

External links

Dialogic Communication Solutions
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