Eicon Networks Corporation was a privately owned designer, developer and manufacturer of communication products founded in 1984 with headquarters

Headquarters

Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities...

 in Montreal, Canada. Eicon products are sold worldwide through a large network of distributors and resellers, and supplied to OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, manufactures products or components that are purchased by a company and retailed under that purchasing company's brand name. OEM refers to the company that originally manufactured the product. When referring to automotive parts, OEM designates a...

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In October 2006 Eicon purchased the Media & Signalling Division of Intel, 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 Corporation

Dialogic Corporation is a designer, developer and manufacturer of communication products. It was founded in 1984 in Montreal, Canada. Dialogic products are sold worldwide through a large network of distributors and resellers, and supplied to OEMs....

at the time of the purchase.

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 telecomms products for voice, speech, conferencing and fax. It supports T1

Digital Signal 1

Digital signal 1 is a T-carrier signaling scheme devised by Bell Labs. DS1 is a widely used standard in telecommunications in North America and Japan to transmit voice and data between devices. E1 is used in place of T1 outside North America, Japan, and South Korea...

/E1

E-carrier

In digital telecommunications, where a single physical wire pair can be used to carry many simultaneous voice conversations by time-division multiplexing, worldwide standards have been created and deployed...

; SS7

SS7

SS-7 can stand for:* Signaling System #7, a set of telephone signaling protocols.* The R-16 missile, with NATO reporting name SS-7 Saddler.* China Railways SS7, an electric locomotive model in China.* Super Socket 7, a chip socket introduced by AMD...

; ISDN and conventional phone line (PSTN

Public switched telephone network

The public switched telephone network is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks. It consists of telephone lines, fiber optic cables, microwave transmission links, cellular networks, communications satellites, and undersea telephone cables, all inter-connected by...

). As of 2008 Eicon Host Media Processing

Host Media Processing

Host Media Processing or HMP is a design model in telecommunications systems that involves the use of software solutions to perform voice processing functions where dedicated Digital Signal Processors were previously required....

 products, "software adapters" that provide VoIP

Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...

 capability for applications, are available.

Diva Server is used in VoiceXML

VoiceXML

VoiceXML is the W3C's standard XML format for specifying interactive voice dialogues between a human and a computer. It allows voice applications to be developed and deployed in an analogous way to HTML for visual applications. Just as HTML documents are interpreted by a visual web browser,...

 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 ISDN or combined ISDN and dialup modem

Modem

A modem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data...

s. In the past Eicon produced ADSL and Wifi

WIFI

WIFI is a radio station broadcasting a brokered format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA, the station is currently operated by Florence Broadcasting Partners, LLC.This station was previously owned by Real Life Broadcasting...

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

Eiconcard

The Eiconcard connects legacy X.25

X.25

X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for packet switched wide area network communication. An X.25 WAN consists of packet-switching exchange nodes as the networking hardware, and leased lines, Plain old telephone service connections or ISDN connections as physical links...

 systems for tasks such as credit card authorization, SMS

SMS

SMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...

, and satellite communications. The Eiconcard has been produced since the company was founded in 1984, and continues to be available.