Comdial introduces Voyager voice mail telephone system for small offices, home businesses -- priced at about half that of competing systems.CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1996--Comdial Corp. (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 NM:CMDL CMDL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory CMDL Common Mission Data Loader ) on Thursday announced the commercial availability of its Voyager(tm) integrated voice mail and 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). telephone system specifically designed for small office and home business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . The result of an alliance between Comdial and Fremont, Ca.-based Voysys Corp., a Comdial strategic partner, Voyager offers an economical, advanced-technology alternative to traditional small business telephone systems that use adjunct voice mail units or answering machines. It is expected to carry a suggested retail price of approximately $3,200, about half the cost of separate-component competing systems. Comdial President and Chief Executive Officer William G. Mustain commented: "Voyager reflects our corporate commitment to the development and marketing of voice processing-based solutions which are cost-effective, flexible and leading-edge. "As an example," he said, "Voyager's primary attraction for the growing number of small entrepreneurial businesses lies in its significantly lower cost, sophisticated performance for that cost, installation ease and its ability to support such ancillary equipment as modems, credit card readers and up to four fax machines. It connects with any standard, off-the-shelf telephone -- and it's all in one tightly integrated package. "We believe Voyager will enable us to increase penetration of the important 10-station-or-less market," Mustain added. "That segment has long accounted for more than 60 percent of total industry shipments of telephone systems." Mustain said that Voyager delivers a "powerful" auto-attendant and a 16-box voice mail system with a minimum of 20 minutes of storage capability. An optional expansion card increases storage time by 70 minutes. The telephone portion offers four-party conference call, blind/screen transfer and multiple-option call forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. , among its many built-in features. A particularly valuable feature of Voyager is its ability to call cell phones or personal pagers, alerting users to new voice messages. Users can retrieve messages from any phone, at any time. Voyager is distributed through Comdial's supply house distribution partners and is available throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada. Comdial is a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of a broad range of advanced telecommunications products and systems solutions based on computer telephony integration Computer Telephony Integration - Computer Telephone Integration . Comdial's World Wide Web site contains a comprehensive corporate information database, including product information, the Comdial Corporate Backgrounder back·ground·er n. An informal news briefing for reporters by an official often speaking off the record. Noun 1. backgrounder , most recent quarterly 10-Q and 1995 10-K, as well as recent media releases. You can connect to Comdial's home page from your Internet browser See Web browser. : http://www.comdial.com/. CONTACT: Comdial Corp., Charlottesville Dick Bucci, 804/978-2200 dbucci@comdial.com or Allen & Caron Inc/South Coast Communications Marty Tullio (investors) Owen Daley (media) 714/252-8440 |
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