{{Short description|Business enterprise}} {{pp-protected|reason=Persistent puffery going back over three years, using multiple accounts. |small=yes}} {{Infobox company | name = Dialogic Group, Inc. | logo = Dialogic logo.svg | type = [[Private company|Private]] | genre = | foundation = {{Start date and age|1983}} | founder = | location = 4 Gatehill Drive<br/>[[Parsippany, New Jersey]], U.S. 07054<br/> {{coord|39.47756|-75.33772|region:US|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | area_served = Worldwide | origins = | industry = [[Telecommunication]] | products = [[Media server]]s<br/>[[Real-time communication|Real-time communications applications]]<br/>[[Unified communications|Unified communications platform]]<br/> Application [[Orchestration (computing)|ochestration]]<br/>[[Session border controller]]s<br/>[[Signalling System No. 7|Signaling]] stacks and software<br/>[[Load balancing (computing)|Real-time communications load balancers]]<br />[[Softswitch]]es<br/>[[Media gateway]]s<br/>[[Bandwidth (signal processing)|Bandwidth]] optimization<br/>[[Fax modem|Fax boards]]<br/>[[T.38|FoIP]] software | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = | parent = | subsid = | owner = | footnotes = | website = {{URL|https://www.dialogic.com}} }}
'''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 over 25 countries. Dialogic provided a cloud-optimized communications technology for real-time communications media, applications, and infrastructure to service providers, enterprises, and developers.
==History== Dialogic was founded in 1983 in Parsippany, New Jersey by three engineers, Nicholas Zwick and James Shinn, both of whom had worked for Advanced Micro Devices, and Kenneth Burkhardt, formerly with Unisys.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/dialogic-corporation-history|title=Dialogic Corporation History|publisher=Funding Universe}}</ref> In 1999, at the height of the dot-com era, the company was acquired by Intel for $780 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1139727|title=Intel acquires Dialogic in $780 million server gambit|last=Merritt |first=Rick |date=June 1999|publisher=EE Times|accessdate=2018-07-23}}</ref> and was run as the Media & Signaling Division. In October 2006, [[Eicon]] bought the Media & Signaling Division of [[Intel]]<ref>{{cite press release | title = Eicon Networks to Purchase Intel's Media and Signaling Business | publisher = Intel | date = August 9, 2006 | url = http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2006/20060809corp.htm | accessdate = 2009-04-17}}</ref> and then changed its name back to Dialogic.
Since the formation of the new Dialogic, other competitors in the same industry have been acquired and merged into the company, including NMS Communications<ref>{{cite press release | title = Dialogic Corporation Enters into Agreement to Acquire NMS Communications Platforms Business | publisher = Newswire | date = September 15, 2008 | url = http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/39763/ | accessdate = 2009-04-17}}</ref> and Cantata.<ref>{{cite press release | title = Dialogic Corporation Acquires Cantata Through Purchase of EAS Group, Inc. | publisher = OpenPR | date = April 4, 2008 | url = http://www.openpr.com/pdf/29960/Dialogic-Corporation-Acquires-Cantata-Through-Purchase-of-EAS-Group-Inc.pdf | accessdate = 2009-04-17}}</ref> The latter was itself a collection of companies including [[Brooktrout Technology|Brooktrout, Inc.]], and the Excel Switching Corporation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/voip-gateways/voip-gateways-articles/voip-brooktrout-excel-merger.htm|title=Excel Switching Corp. Hooks Brooktrout, Inc. in merger |last=Franchina|first=Lisa |date=October 21, 2005|publisher=TMCnet|accessdate=2009-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release | title = Brooktrout to Acquire SnowShore Networks | publisher = PR Newswire | date = March 26, 2004 | url = http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=119979 | accessdate = 2009-04-17}}</ref>
In May 2010, Dialogic announced a merger with San Jose, California-based Veraz Networks,<ref>{{cite press release | title = Veraz Networks and Dialogic Announce Definitive Agreement to Merge | publisher = Marketwire | date = May 12, 2010 | url = http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Veraz-Networks-and-Dialogic-Announce-Definitive-Agreement-to-Merge-NASDAQ-VRAZ-1259271.htm | accessdate = 2010-05-13}}</ref> a company specializing in softswitch and compression technology.<ref>{{cite web | title = Dialogic Eyes Video Compression, SBC Market with Veraz Acquisition | publisher = TMCNet | date = Aug 10, 2010 | url = http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/video/dialogic-eyes-video-compression-sbc-market-with-veraz-acquisition.html | accessdate = 2010-08-20}}</ref> The resulting company would retain the name Dialogic. That same year, Dialogic moved its headquarters to [[Milpitas, California]].
On November 24, 2014, Dialogic was acquired by Novacap TMT IV, L.P., a Canadian private equity firm. They moved the headquarters back to Parsippany, New Jersey.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.njbiz.com/article/20140926/NJBIZ01/140929792/leaner-tech-firm-dialogic-finds-the-right-fit-in-a-new-parsippany-office|title=Leaner tech firm Dialogic finds the right fit in a new Parsippany office {{!}} NJBIZ|last=Burd|first=Joshua|work=NJBIZ|access-date=2018-01-08}}</ref>
On February 9, 2016, Dialogic Corp announced the completed acquisition of Apex Communications, a supplier of global real-time communications applications for service providers and enterprise networks. The company launched an application development practice for networked, premises and cloud-based applications. The line of applications include WebRTC, unified communications, IVR, on-demand voicemail and cloud-based PBX.
On January 9, 2018, Sangoma Technologies Corporation acquired all key assets of the Converged Communication Division (CCD) from Dialogic Corporation. By divesting its CCD hardware business, Dialogic became a software-centric company.
The remaining company, under the name Dialogic Group, was acquired on January 2, 2020, by Enghouse Systems Ltd of Markham, Ontario.<ref>{{cite press release | title = Enghouse Systems Acquires Dialogic | publisher = PR Newswire | date = January 2, 2020 | url = https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/enghouse-systems-acquires-dialogic-300980359.html | accessdate = 2021-02-28}}</ref>
==Products== Dialogic designs, sells and supports [[real-time communication]]s media, [[Application software|applications]], and infrastructure services to [[communications service provider]]s, enterprises, and developers.
Its products include [[media server]]s, [[Gateway (telecommunications)|gateways]] and boards; [[Load balancing (computing)|load balancers]], communications applications, [[softswitch]]es, diameter signaling controllers, [[session border controller]]s, signaling stacks and software, fax boards and FoIP software, and [[Capacity optimization|bandwidth optimization]] services.
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