Hitachi Telecom Introduces Industry's Most Technologically Advanced Lodging Communication System With Broadband Transport Powered by 3Com Corporation.Business/High-Tech Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000 - -- Hotels To Benefit From High-Speed Internet See broadband. Access, Leading-Edge Application Enhancements, "Intelligent" Telephone Terminals, & More -- Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT) announced today that it is introducing the most technologically advanced communication system known to the lodging Lodging or holiday accommodation is a type of accommodation. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging mainly for sleeping. Other purposes are safety, shelter from cold and rain, having a place to store luggage and being able to take a industry. Scheduled for release on April 1, 2001, Hitachi's revolutionary new HCX HCX High Current Experiment HCX Headend Channel Switch 5000i 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). includes a high-speed Internet solution for hotel properties, as well as a variety of application enhancements designed to assist hoteliers streamline efficiencies and increase revenues. Combined with the Company's soon to be released series of SelecSet900 "Intelligent" Telephone Terminals, the HCX5000i System delivers to hoteliers the most superior and comprehensive array of features, functions, and benefits of any communication system on the market today. "The HCX5000i represents a major leap in technology," stated Gene Pelletier, Hitachi's director of PBX business. "It not only offers hoteliers the ability to provide high-speed Internet access to their properties, but it's designed to protect our customers' current investments by being fully compatible with HCX5000 systems purchased up to ten years ago." Hitachi's HCX5000i will deliver broadband services See broadband and broadband service provider. to hotel meeting rooms and guestrooms over existing cable. Because its Internet functionality is designed to integrate with all other HCX5000 models, properties may choose to add these features to their current system, thereby realizing measurable cost savings. The HCX5000i, which features a smaller footprint The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor. 1. than previous PBXs, is designed to allow hoteliers to take advantage of increased revenue opportunities including the provision of data and video services to guest and meeting rooms. In a strategic relationship with Hitachi, 3Com Corporation's VCN VCN Vancouver Community Network VCN Visionary Communications, Inc. (ISP for Wyoming, Montana, etc) VCN Virtual Circuit Number VCN Vice City News (Grand Theft Auto game) VCN Visual Communications Network System, the industry's most advanced solution for providing broadband-based Internet access See how to access the Internet. , web-based content and applications to multi-unit buildings, will serve as the platform for the Internet functionality of Hitachi's HCX5000i. An array of enhanced applications to be offered by Hitachi, further increase the functionality of the HCX5000i. Hoteliers will benefit from improved Windows-based Front Desk capabilities, new Call Accounting features, expanded CTI-based Emergency and Alert Control functionality, and greatly improved Enhanced Reporting. These leading-edge enhancements, many of them unique to the industry, will serve to increase productivity, revenues and cost/resource savings for hotels, while also providing expanded guest services and amenities. Hitachi's new series of SelecSet 900 "Intelligent" Telephone Terminals includes equally advanced technological features and benefits. Of the five models featured in the series, one is a guest room telephone terminal designed to accommodate voice and data applications. The terminal will allow older hotels with limited cabling the ability to offer two two-line phones per room without having to re-cable the hotel. In addition, a top-of-the-line "executive" telephone terminal will feature the capabilities to handle extensive call control applications by offering the user a total of 24 programmable option keys. "We are extremely pleased to provide hoteliers with the technology required to offer their guests advanced voice and broadband services, while also delivering the products they need to reduce internal expenditures," stated Pelletier. "Our commitment to the lodging industry has never been stronger, and we believe that these new technologies and product offerings underscore The underscore character (_) is often used to make file, field and variable names more readable when blank spaces are not allowed. For example, NOVEL_1A.DOC, FIRST_NAME and Start_Routine. (character) underscore - _, ASCII 95. the fact." As with all other members of Hitachi's HCX5000 family of communication systems, the HCX5000i offers the highest level of integration to most Property Management, Voice Mail and Call Accounting Systems, provides maximum reliability by meeting Hitachi's high standards, and features the modularity necessary for a smooth growth pattern from 60 to 6000 lines. About Hitachi's HCX5000 Communication System The HCX5000 offers a wide array of benefits for lodging properties of all sizes and types, as well as the industry's most flexible interface to Property Management Systems (PMS (Pantone Matching System) A color matching system that has a unique number assigned to more than 500 different colors and shades. This standard for the printing industry has been built into many graphics and desktop publishing programs to ensure color accuracy. ) and other systems. Hitachi's HCX5000 Communication System with WelCOMM lodging software leads the market in the number of PBX lines shipped to the lodging industry. (Phillips InfoTech in March 1999.) Long known for its dedication to the lodging industry, this is the fourth consecutive year in which Hitachi was the overall market leader for number of lines shipped. 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://www.hitachi.co.jp. (1)At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar. About 3Com Corporation 3Com simplifies how people connect to information and services through easy-to-use, connectivity products and solutions for consumers and commercial organizations. The company also provides access infrastructures and IP services platforms for network service providers. For further information, visit www.3com.com. |
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