Comdial Announces Nine New Platinum Preferred Dealers.CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 1999-- Recruiting Success Attributed to New Impact FX Comdial Corporation (Nasdaq: CMDL CMDL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory CMDL Common Mission Data Loader ) today announced that it has successfully recruited nine new Platinum Preferred Dealers since the fourth quarter of 1998. Comdial's dealer recruitment program designated "Dealer Time In 99", was designed to recruit sophisticated dealers who focus on providing communications solutions in major metropolitan markets. To be considered a Platinum Preferred Dealer, dealers must meet rigorous qualifications and make a substantial business commitment to Comdial. The new Platinum Preferred Dealers and their metro market areas are: Target Telecom Inc. (Boston), Communications Planning and Services, Inc. (New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. metro), ComDirect, Inc. (Orange CA), Falcon Communications Solutions, Inc. (Washington, DC), COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. .ONE Communications, Inc. (New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded ), Communications World International, Inc. (Denver), Stars & Stripes Telecom, Inc. (San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. ), Telecom Labs, Inc. (Seattle) and Pacific Blue Micro, Inc. (Newport Beach Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. CA). Mr. William C. Grover, Vice President of Sales, said "We are well on our way toward achieving our goal of 26 new Platinum Preferred Dealers during 1999. Paramount to our success in recruiting these new dealers has been the new Impact FX computer telephony switch. None of our competitors have a product as feature rich and robust as the Impact FX, which combines the reliability of a traditional voice switch with the openness and flexibility of a server-PBX. " "Comdial has very robust computer telephony products which we believe will be a critical driver of future sales," commented Greg S. Smith, President of Stars and Stripes Stars and Stripes nickname for the U.S. flag. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 8567] See : America Telecom. "We feel this is a win-win situation. Comdial has the communications solutions we need to offer to our customers as well as yielding higher margins on our sales for the company." Sales of the new Impact FX have been climbing rapidly. Software activation levels increased 256% compared to last quarter. It is products like the Impact FX which have been instrumental in attracting data VAR's to start selling computer telephony based communications solutions. Bill Uncapher, President of Pacific Blue Micro commented, "With the upcoming convergence of voice and data networks products like Comdial's Impact FX gives our firm the opportunity to expand our business into the 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. arena and allows us to provide totally integrated solutions to our customers." Comdial is a provider of integrated communications solutions for small and mid-size organizations. The Company's broad product line includes digital switches, wired and wireless business telephones, call center hardware and software, voice processing systems, and Internet Protocol telephony gateways. For more information about Comdial, please visit our web site at http://www.comdial.com. |
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