AVT Corporation Enhances Enterprise Messaging Lead with the Introduction of CallXpress Version 5.30.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000

Latest Unified Messaging Release offers

Mobile Connection and e-Admin Connection

New Tools Focus on the Needs of the Mobile Professional

and Administrator within Large Enterprises

AVT Corporation (Nasdaq:AVTC), the leading provider of business-to-business communications solutions, announced today the release of CallXpress and CallXpress Enterprise Version 5.30. This significant release offers enhanced communication tools for mobile professionals, streamlined administration, and a reduced total cost of ownership for large, multi-site enterprises.

Mobile Connection

CallXpress Version 5.30 supports a host of enhancements designed to keep the mobile professional connected while on the road.

-- Voice Reply to Email: Another boon to the mobile professional

is the ability to send a voice reply to an email message from

anyone in the world. When using a telephone to retrieve

messages, users can listen to an email message using

text-to-speech, choose the reply option, and record a voice

response. That voice message will be attached as a standard

.wav file to a reply email message and sent to the original

message sender. This feature allows the mobile worker to

access and respond to email messages from any telephone,

eliminating the need to have access to a computer in order to

retrieve and respond to email messages.

-- Live Reply(TM): CallXpress version 5.30 extends the existing

Live Reply(TM) feature by enabling users to respond to a

message from an outside caller with a live telephone call.

This powerful feature allows a mobile employee to check

messages from any telephone and with one press of a button, be

directly connected to the person who left the message.

-- Expanded Attachment Rendering: Building on the strength of the

AVT fax solution, RightFAX, CallXpress version 5.30 now allows

users to access additional types of email attachments from the

telephone. Now, users can access their email messages via the

telephone, and forward the email message, along with the

complete body of the attached document, to any fax machine.

Document types that can be rendered include Microsoft Office 

documents such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as well as

.PDF and HTML files.

e-Admin Connection

Topping the list of enterprise-ready administration enhancements as part of the CallXpress e-Admin Connection suite is a new client application designed to help administrators better manage multiple CallXpress systems across the Internet. AVT's Global User Administration client application, provides a unified view of all CallXpress(a) and CallXpress Enterprise systems across the global network. Administrators in a multi-site enterprise can see all systems and user accounts on the network and easily perform administrative changes across multiple systems simultaneously, without having to navigate between separate views for each server.

Paramount to a successful messaging network is the ability to maintain up-to-date and accurate user data on each node in the network. CallXpress, version 5.30, with its integrated Digital Networking module(a), eliminates this challenge by automatically synchronizing user and server data across the Internet. This enhancement dramatically reduces the maintenance tasks for the system administrator and ensures all users across all locations are able to seamlessly communicate as easily as if they were in the same location.

In today's business environment, many administrators are managing three separate directories for voice messaging, fax and email. Therefore, making a change to a user record often requires three separate entries. For users of Microsoft Exchange, CallXpress 5.30 dramatically reduces administrative time by leveraging the powerful Microsoft Exchange Directory for all CallXpress subscriber administration. Now, system administrators can perform all adds, moves, and changes for CallXpress, as well as the RightFAX network fax server, through the Exchange Directory. Leveraging the power of the Exchange Directory for all user administration dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership for the CallXpress unified messaging solution.

CallXpress 5.3 will be available in 45-60 days and is sold through the AVT network of certified dealers.

AVT Corporation is the leading provider of business-to-business communications solutions, helping organizations control and meet the high demands of their communications workflow. The company specializes in developing and marketing its CallXpress unified messaging solution, its RightFAX and CommercePath fax and communications servers, and its MediaLinq electronic document delivery services. AVT has over 65,000 systems installed worldwide, with 80 percent of the Fortune 100 using the company's award winning products and services.

AVT is headquartered in Kirkland, WA and has main offices in Tucson, AZ, Portland, OR, and San Francisco, CA. In addition, AVT has sales and support offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Tokyo. 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.

(a) The Global User Administration application and Digital Networking module are standard features in CallXpress Enterprise 5.30 and can be optionally purchased with CallXpress.

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