Anta Systems Announces General Availability of Its Simplicity SE-400FXS and ME-1000FXS SME IP-PBX Solutions.BOSTON -- Solution Enables Small-to-Medium Enterprises the Ability to Preserve Existing Communications Investment While Expanding into VoIP Anta Systems, Inc., a developer of affordable, turnkey Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) solutions, today announced the general availability of its Simplicity(TM) SE-400FXS (Foreign eXchange Station) The interface provided by the telephone company to its customers, which includes dial tone, power and ring voltage. The telephone jack on the wall is an FXS interface. and ME-1000FXS SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. IP-PBX solutions. These new innovative Simplicity(TM) solutions allow small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) to continue to utilize their existing analog devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. (phone & cordless phones, fax machine, conference phone & key telephone systems) as they migrate to state-of-the-art VoIP technology. "Today's cost conscience SMEs do not want to throw away costly conference phones or cordless phones that they have invested in," said Frank Ip, Anta's Co-founder and President. "With our new Simplicity New Simplicity (in German, die neue Einfachheit) was a stylistic tendency amongst some of the younger generation of German composers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reacting against not only the European avant garde of the 1950s and 1960s, but also against the broader (TM) SE-400FXS and ME-1000FXS SME IP-PBXs, SMEs can preserve their investments in these analog devices as they expand into VoIP to take advantage of enhanced IP-based business applications to improve efficiency and productivity." Anta Systems is delivering the industry's highest value business communications solution for the SME market See SMB. by offering the following enhanced SIP-based (Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. ) business applications as standard options on its Simplicity(TM) SME IP-PBX solutions: --Site-to-site VoIP VPN Secure Voice Encryption A VoIP VPN combines Voice over IP and Virtual Private Network technologies to offer a method for delivering secure voice. Because VoIP transmits digitized voice as a stream of data, the VoIP VPN solution accomplishes voice encryption quite simply, - Allows SMEs to establish a private virtual private VoIP network between headquarters and branch office locations by leveraging the public Internet and enables private number plans, extension dialing and free On-net VoIP calls --Remote VoIP Access - Enables business travelers and telecommuters to seamlessly access the corporate VoIP network from anywhere in the world via Anta's plug & play Softphones from a desktop computer, laptop or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). --Visual Voicemail - Delivers voicemail through employees' e-mail accounts so that they can retrieve and listen to voicemail from anywhere --VoIP Conference Bridge - Enables SMEs to establish a conference bridge on the fly for audio conferencing so that they no longer have to pay for expensive conferencing services --Personal Call Management - Offers an end-user Web portal so that each employee can manage his/her personal communications applications --Direct PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. Number Mapping - Ability to directly map a PSTN phone number from an FXO FXO Foreign Exchange Office line to either a FXS port (analog phone or fax) or an IP device (SIP phone or Softphone) to be utilized as an executive line or fax line The Simplicity(TM) SE-400FXS include a 4-port FXO trunk interface and a 16-port FXS line interface while the Simplicity(TM) ME-1000FXS include a 1-port T1/E1 PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. trunk interface and a 16-port FXS line interface. Both models can also support SIP-based phones and Softphones. "Affordability and usability are two key aspects that are very important to the SME market," said David Tang, Anta's Co-founder and VP of Sales/Marketing. "Unfortunately, most IP-PBX solutions in the market today are too expensive and too complex to use. Anta has focused on these key SME requirements from day one and has developed one of the most cost-effective and easy-to-use business communications solutions for the SME market." The key advantages of Anta's Simplicity(TM) SE-400FXS and ME-1000FXS SME IP-PBX solutions include: --All-in-one, Plug & Play solution that is affordable and easy-to-use --Support for both standard Analog and IP end-points --Built-in NAT/Firewall Traversal --Centralized Provisioning with Auto Configuration of SIP Phone and Softphone --1+1 Redundant Architecture for High Availability and Scalability --Future Proof with Open Industry Standards (SIP) For a demo of Anta Systems' Simplicity(TM) SE-400FXS SME IP-PBX, visit booth #1031 at the Fall VON show in Boston, MA, October 18 - October 21, 2004. Pricing and Sales Information Pricing for Anta's Simplicity(TM) VoIP solutions includes 3 key components: Platform, Application Software License and Annual Service and Support. For additional information, please call 510-683-0159 or send an e-mail to sales@antasystems.com. About Anta Systems: Anta Systems Inc. is a leading provider of affordable end-to-end SIP-based VoIP solutions including a VoIP Service Switch, IP-PBX, business-class SIP phones and enhanced applications like IP-Centrex, Visual Voicemail and VoIP Conferencing. The company's mission is to help reduce the cost and complexity of VoIP deployments for service providers and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) worldwide. Anta Systems is based in Fremont, California. For more information on the company and its products, visit http://www.antasystems.com. |
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