February 1996

Fujitsu Business Communication Systems, the North American business information technology unit of Fujitsu Limited, has announced the availability of a new private branch exchange (PBX) product and two related software products.

The F9600 Enhanced System (ES) Multimedia Platform PBX is designed to provide a cost-effective access and switching platform for businesses requiring 48 to 1,000 voice, data or video stations on their premises. The scalable design assures users of common hardware and software as their business grows to the F9600 system capacity of 9,600 stations. The F9600 ES offers optional hardware redundancy for the fault-tolerant operation of mission-critical business applications.

The F9600 ES is based on the existing F9600 VS physical design yet incorporates the full switching functionality of the larger and redundant F9600 M. This system consolidation provides common cabinet design, layout and size while offering the same telephones and common control, line and trunk cards across the station range previously covered by the F9600 VS and F9600 M/MS. With the introduction of new common control equipment for the F9600 ES, two additional card slots have been freed for use as line and trunk cards. The maximum configuration of the F9600 ES is more than double that of the F9600 VS.

As a member of the F9600 Multimedia Platform family, the F9600 ES supports applications such as Intel's ProShare line of Personal Conferencing products and computer-telephony integration strategies such as Novell's TSAPI and Microsoft's TAPI. In addition to voice and data applications, high- quality, dial-up videoconferencing is supported.

Fujitsu Business Communication Systems also announced the availability of software Release 9 for the F9600 Multimedia Platform, Fujitsu's flagship PBX. Release 9 extends the F9600's multimedia capabilities with enhanced networking features, such as H11, switched 1536-Kbps service, as well as enhanced call center features and expanded capabilities for the Residential Multi-Tenant Services market. Multimedia enhancements include integrated services digital network (ISDN) H11 service, nonfacility associated signaling (NFAS) and D-channel backup. NFAS allows users of both public primary rate interface (PRI) services and Fujitsu ISDN Private Network (FIPN) spans to share a single D-channel across multiple PRI facilities. Release 9 CTI features enhance and expand the F9600's automatic call distribution (ACD) capabilities, including open application interface primitives and station features. The telecommunications computer services interface (TCSI) primitives were enhanced to include 10-digit dialed number identification service/direct inward dialing (DNIS/DID) information, call park and retrieve, enhanced call monitoring and extension monitoring.

The third product announced by Fujitsu Business Communication Systems is IVS, a messaging platform for the F9600 Multimedia Platform and Series 3(R) PBXs. The IVS was developed through the partnership of Fujitsu Business Communication Systems and Centigram Communica-tions Corporation. The IVS supports 4 to 32 ports and up to 55 hours of redundant message storage. A migration path to larger Centigram messaging models allows users to expand the IVS's port and message storage capacity while maintaining the same user interface. It also allows users to incorporate voice, fax and data messaging in everyday business communications. By adding TCP/IP Ethernet connectivity to the platform, users can take advantage of their existing WANs to digitally enhance messages among as many as 1,500 systems at speeds up to 10 Mbps. The IVS includes CTI capabilities, featuring a Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol (MVIP) bus for shared resource fax applications.

For more information, contact Lee Stites at 602-921-4807.