Hitachi Introduces New Series of Technologically Advanced Telephone Terminals.Business/High-Tech Editors Hitachi's SelecSet 900 Series of "Intelligent" Telephone Terminals Developed to Benefit the Lodging Industry ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000 Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT) announced today that it would soon release a new series of technologically advanced telephone terminals to the lodging industry. The SelecSet 900 Series of "Intelligent" Telephone Terminals will allow hoteliers to provide their properties with the industry's most advanced technological features and benefits. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gene Pelletier, Hitachi's director of 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). business, "We're pleased to bring to market the industry's most technologically superior array of hotel telephone terminals. Designed to assist our customers to build their businesses, the SelecSet 900 Series of "Intelligent" Telephone Terminals meets Hitachi's high standards for reliability, functionality and cost-effectiveness." Scheduled for availability in the 1st quarter, 2001, the SS920 is the basic terminal of the series, designed for use in reception areas, lobbies, conference rooms, restaurants, and retail shops. Even the basic terminal in this series features a 2x24 tilt LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters, allowing a natural background color to show. that displays dialed digits, date, time and extension number. Eight programmable autodial keys can be used for functions or speed dial numbers. The SS930 is a staffing/administrative "work horse" phone, which provides all of the functionality of the higher end Coordinates: For other places with the same name, see Billinge. Higher End or Billinge Higher End is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. 940 with fewer programmable buttons and a smaller display. This model is ideal for call centers, staff and management utilization, security and administration. The SS930 is also designed for use in low-end service area applications where the need exists to see the guest's name and room number in order to provide efficient service. Hitachi's SS940 is a top-of-the-line "executive" telephone terminal designed to handle extensive call control applications. It offers the user 24 programmable option keys, which can be programmed for Automatic Caller Display functions or simply as autodial keys. The deluxe de·luxe also de luxe adj. Particularly elegant and luxurious; sumptuous: deluxe accommodations; a de luxe automobile. adv. 2x40 highly interactive display, with 6 soft keys configurable by the PBX and 2 soft keys, offers users a larger area to view features and call control functions. Identical to the SS940 with the exception of the labeling of the fixed keys, which provide attendant functions, the SS940A is designed to accommodate low to medium volume attendant applications in limited service hotels. "The SS900 series will assist hoteliers to improve staff efficiencies and provide enhanced services Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier transmission facilities used in interstate communications, that employs computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information; to guests across all areas of their properties," stated Pelletier. "We call these new products `Intelligent' because they were expressly created to reduce internal costs while generating additional revenues." Planned for availability summer, 2001 is the SS910, a guest room telephone terminal designed to accommodate voice and data applications. This is a two-line phone with a data port that also supports a second two-line phone with a data port. A single digital port from the PBX will support both two-line phones over a single pair of twisted wire. In addition, a snap-on DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary module will allow guests to connect to the Internet over the same pair. "This configuration," stated Pelletier, "will allow older hotels with limited cabling the ability to offer two two-line phones in a room without have to re-cable the hotel. This demonstrates Hitachi's commitment to protecting our customers' current investments." Future development items in the series include a high volume attendant console An attendant console is a telephone station that is generally part of a private branch exchange (PBX) or Centrex or other private telephone system. An attendant console generally is a regular PBX telephone station with one or more additional modules each bearing numerous buttons , a 50-button digital station select module that can be added to any SS900 telephone terminal to provide high speed call completion to 500 to 1,000 extensions and an interface to the PC that allows users to dial phone numbers from their PC applications. About Hitachi Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc., a subsidiary of Hitachi America, Ltd., develops, manufactures and markets telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. equipment for the U.S. market. The company offers ultra high-speed optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. equipment such as SONET and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing systems, as well as customer premises products such as PBXs. For more information on Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc., please visit the company's website at www.hitel.com. Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer systems and products, consumer electronics and semiconductors, and provides industrial equipment and services throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . For more information on Hitachi America, visit http://www.hitachi.com. Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies with fiscal 1999 (ended March 31, 2000) consolidated sales of 8,001 billion yen ($75.5 billion)(1). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's website at http://global.hitachi.com. (1)At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar. |
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