Bristol Extends .Phone Support to Microsoft Site Server.Business Editors, High Tech Writers LARKSPUR, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000 The Bristol Group today announced .phone(TM) support for Site Server, part of Microsoft's (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) newest operating system, Windows 2000. .phone is an IP telephony system developed by the Bristol Group. It enables PCs using CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. handsets to place and receive calls over their company's existing data network as well as the company's legacy phone network. .phone uses Microsoft's Dynamic Directory to centralize IP and other information across the company network. Using Dynamic Directory makes it possible for .phone to offer many specialized phone features. Dynamic Directory is a feature of the Site Server Membership Directory, the successor to ILS ILS In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Israeli Shekel. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. (Internet Locator Service) in Microsoft Windows NT. The .phone product line includes a Windows client and a gateway. The .phone Client includes standard phone features as well as specialized features such as camp-on, follow-me, caller ID, public and private phone books, call waiting, call-forwarding, and conferencing. Users plug a standard PC handset into their existing sound card. No specialized hardware or additional cabling is required. The .phone Gateway is based on Brooktrout's (NASDAQ:BRKT BRKT Bracket ) TR2001 voice boards. The TR2001 is capable of handling multiple T1 spans making them suitable for high-volume phone applications. The boards run under either Windows NT or 2000, or Sun Solaris. The gateway provides browser-based administration as well as real-time status information. .phone also supports Windows NT, Windows +98 and +95, and Sun Solaris on SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill . The Bristol Group has been providing large scale messaging solutions to companies since 1989. Among its customers are Nomura, DHL Airways, Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston was originally the trading name of the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston, a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture formed in 1978 between the First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse. , Oracle, Paine Webber, Nationwide Insurance, Airtouch Cellular, and JP Morgan. For more information about The Bristol Group and its products and services, contact The Bristol Group, Ltd., 100 Larkspur Landing Circle, Suite 200, Larkspur, CA 94939; (415) 925-9250; fax (415) 925-9278, info@bg.com, or www.bg.com. |
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