Moscom receives orders from Mercury Communications.PITTSFORD, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 1996--MOSCOM Corporation (Nasdaq National Market:MSCM MSCM Miniature Schnauzer Club of Michigan MSCM Manchester Student Christian Movement MSCM Multispectral Countermeasures MSCM Multi-State Compliance Manager MSCM Master-Slave Connection Matrix ) today announced that it has received orders for the INFO/MDR product line from Mercury Communications Mercury Communications was a national telephone company in the United Kingdom. The company was formed in 1981 as a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless to challenge the monopoly of British Telecom (BT) which was privatised in 1984. Ltd. of the United Kingdom. The orders, totaling approximately $500,000, cover INFO Monitors and INFO/MDR customized software See custom software. . Delivery is expected to occur during third and fourth quarters of 1996. Mercury Communications is the second largest provider of telephone services in the United Kingdom. Mercury uses INFO/MDR primarily to gather and process call record details for virtual private networks ("VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ") and centrex and to 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 VPN and centrex customers. MOSCOM has supplied INFO/MDR products to Mercury Communications since 1994. David Bacon, General Manager of MOSCOM Limited in the UK, commented that, "This order will bring to 16 the number of Mercury switches equipped with INFO/MDR. The software customization includes the ability to provide ring time information to VPN and centrex customers served by Mercury's DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. 100 switches. Tracking the ring time of incoming calls is now a legal requirement in England for local health authorities, utilities and government agencies. Accordingly, this INFO/MDR feature is very important to many Mercury customers and offers an excellent opportunity to sell INFO Manager software, the PC-based tool used by VPN and centrex customers to access INFO/MDR reports. Mercury is an important customer for MOSCOM in the UK and we are pleased by this vote of confidence and the opportunity to provide additional products and services." MOSCOM Corporation is engaged in the design, production and servicing of telecommunications management, voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. and voice recognition products for users and providers of telecommunications services in the global market. The forward looking statements contained in this release are estimates by the Company's management of future performance and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from management's current expectations. CONTACT: MOSCOM Corporation -or- The Equity Group Inc. Robert L. Boxer Linda Latman (716) 383-6803 (212) 836-9609 |
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