Dialexia Communications, Inc. is a privately held Canadian
corporation
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headquartered in
Montréal, Quebec, that develops, manufactures, and sells VoIP-based
Telecommunication
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products and services.
Overview
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.,
extensions, ring groups, etc.), share lines among several phones and implement business PBX telephone phone features such as
voicemail,
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 i ...
& 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 and ...
capabilities to its line of PBX software products. Founded in
Montreal
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in 2001, the company is a member of the
Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal.
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. 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
Session Initiation Protocol
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol used for initiating, maintaining, and terminating communication sessions that include voice, video and messaging applications. SIP is used in Internet telephony, in private IP telepho ...
. A softswitch, short for software switch, is a central device in a
telecommunications network
A telecommunications network is a group of Node (networking), nodes interconnected by telecommunications links that are used to exchange messages between the nodes. The links may use a variety of technologies based on the methodologies of circuit ...
which connects
telephone call
A telephone call, phone call, voice call, or simply a call, is the effective use of a connection over a telephone network between the calling party and the called party.
Telephone calls are the form of human communication that was first enabl ...
s from one
phone line 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
IP PBX services on office grounds.
See also
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Softswitch
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IP PBX
*
List of SIP software
References
External links
Official WebsiteVoIP Solutions
{{Canadian VOIP
VoIP companies
Software companies of Canada
Telecommunications companies of Canada