Project DiaStar

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named the DiaStar Server as a recipient of a Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.

"Dialogic has made considerable advancements in the field of voice and video communications and deserves to be recognized with a 2009 Product of the Year Award in recognition of its efforts," said Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC. "The DiaStar Server provides many beneficial features for open source developers working on Asterisk® or other open source implementations, and we look forward to seeing what innovative solutions the Dialogic team will develop next."

"The DiaStar Server provides comprehensive, easy to use functions that help unleash the creativity of developers to create innovative new voice and video applications for the open source market," said Jim Machi, senior vice president of marketing at Dialogic. "It is an honor to receive a Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award, as it helps to validate the impact that the DiaStar Server and Project DiaStar have had on the industry."

Project DiaStar are pleased to announce their latest release of the DiaStar Server.

V2.1 adds the following functionality:

• Video Conferencing
  • Video and audio synchronization
  • Variable number (1,4,6,9) of tiles (callers' windows)
  • Dialplan-controlled image overlay for each conferee
  • Transcoding of varied video codecs into the appropriate type for each conferee
  • Display of static image into a conference
  • Display of a video clip into a conference
  • Ad-hoc conferencing
  • Controlled conferencing
  • Participant "roles"
    • Controller or moderator
    • Presenter with full duplex audio/video
    • Attendee listens to and views conference but is not seen nor heard
  • Automatic audio gain control
  • Echo cancellation
  • DTMF suppression

Introducing a new feature on the DiaStar website

DiaStar tech Briefs are short technical explanations of some of DiaStar's use cases and network technologies. Each will provide you with information beyond the "How to Configure" Wiki pages, helping you get a well-crafted application up and running quickly.

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DiaStar Multimedia IVVR - How DiaStar can be used to make an Interactive Video and Voice Response system