AVT Corporation Announces the Availability of its Premier Unified Messaging Solution -- CallXpress Enterprise.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1999-- -- With the Capability to Support Up to 128 Ports, CallXpress Enterprise Can Service Up to 10,000 Users On a Single Microsoft Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. Server -- AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. (R) Corporation (Nasdaq:AVTC AVTC Antivirus Test Center (informatics, University of Hamburg) AVTC Automatic Vehicular Traffic Control ), a leading provider of enterprise-based computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration solutions, today announced the availability of CallXpress Enterprise. Based on over three years of development, CallXpress Enterprise extends the CallXpress family by delivering a high-capacity, fault-tolerant unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. system designed specifically for the large multi-site enterprise. "The release of CallXpress Enterprise represents AVT's commitment to developing and delivering innovative and leading edge communications solutions for today's global corporate enterprises," said Joseph Staples, AVT Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "Being a highly scalable product, built on proven NT-based technology that integrates with existing PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). , LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , and groupware environments, CallXpress Enterprise allows today's large scale corporations to deploy proven AVT solutions across their entire environment." CallXpress Enterprise supports up to 128 ports on a single Windows NT server. This capacity allows support for up to 10,000 users. Additional AVT systems can be added in a digital IP-based network environment to provide integration of campuses or branch offices -- creating a complete solution not only for the large corporate campus, but for the entire global enterprise. CallXpress Enterprise also delivers horizontal scalability by integrating other key AVT NT services such as network fax and interactive voice response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ). The administrative capabilities of CallXpress Enterprise are designed for large multi-site companies. The mailbox import feature allows administrators to quickly add, change, or delete one or more subscriber mailboxes using a single text file. This allows administrators to edit these mailboxes without having to type this information for each subscriber in the Subscriber Mailbox dialog box A movable window that is displayed on screen in response to the user selecting a menu option. It provides the current status and available options for a particular feature in the program. . The Mailboxes dialog box has also been enhanced to make searching and mailbox range copying and editing easier. A new class of service tool also allows administrators to create ranges of mailboxes based on the properties of existing template mailboxes. From a telephone, a desktop computer, or a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , users can access all three message types -- voice, fax, and email. Through Microsoft Outlook/Exchange or Lotus Notes users can view their voice and fax messages, along with any email messages -- providing true unified messaging. In addition, CallXpress Enterprise offers support for all major brands of PBX telephone systems including those from NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nortel, Ericsson, Lucent, Siemens, Fujitsu, and Mitel. Critical to a true unified messaging solution is the development and ownership of an integrated enterprise fax solution. CallXpress Enterprise incorporates the company's award-winning fax server technology -- RightFAX. Developed by AVT, RightFAX is enterprise-capable and includes functionality for distributed fax processing and load balancing across multiple servers, centralized administration for all RightFAX servers on the network, and the ability to establish rules-based least cost routing A feature of a telephone system that automatically connects an outgoing telephone call with the telephone service that costs the least to that location at that time of day. Depending on how it is programmed, least cost routing will either drop down to the second most-efficient service if using the Internet or other wide area networking transports. Using the Internet or the corporate Intranet, CallXpress Enterprise supports true digital networking of all voice and fax messages. Compliant with the industry-standard networking protocol VPIM (Voice Profile for Internet Mail) A method for encoding voice mail messages as data so they can travel via the SMTP mail protocol over IP networks. VPIM uses MIME to encode messages in multiple parts, which are decoded by VPIM-compliant voice mail systems at (Voice Profile for Internet Mail), CallXpress Enterprise provides users with a transparent method of exchanging messages throughout the enterprise at a reduced cost of deployment. In addition, digital networking provides greater functionality as compared to analog networking alternatives. Taking full advantage of fault tolerant technology, CallXpress Enterprise integrates with hardware that offers fail-over safe redundancy including redundant components and disk mirroring. CallXpress Enterprise will be generally available within 45 days and will be offered through AVT's direct enterprise accounts sales group, its strategic partners, and through the company's dealer channel. Pricing ranges between $35,000--$250,000 depending on configuration. AVT Corporation develops, manufactures, markets and supports a broad line of open systems-based advanced computer telephony products, specializing in unified messaging, high-performance fax processing, call center productivity and customer service applications. AVT is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, and does business through its Computer Telephony Products Group, based in Kirkland, Washington and through its wholly owned subsidiaries Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , RightFAX, Inc. based in Tucson, Arizona and CommercePath, Inc. based in Portland, Oregon. In addition, AVT has sales and support offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong and Dubai. Founded in 1982, AVT is publicly traded under the symbol "AVTC" on the Nasdaq National Market. AVT maintains a site on the World Wide Web at www.AVTC.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: News releases are available from AVT Newsroom fax server. Call 425/820-4089 and follow the prompts. This document is number 77106. CallXpress is a registered trademark of AVT Corporation. RightFAX is a registered trademark of AVT Corporation. Microsoft, Exchange and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Lotus Notes is a registered trademark of the Lotus Corporation. Other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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