March 3, 1999

AVT Debuts Its CallXpress Enterprise Unified Messaging Solution

AVT Corporation, a provider of enterprise-based computer telephony solutions, announced the availability of CallXpress Enterprise. Based on over three years of development, CallXpress Enterprise extends the CallXpress family by delivering a high-capacity, fault-tolerant unified messaging system designed specifically for the large multi-site enterprise.

"The release of CallXpress Enterprise represents AVT's commitment to developing and delivering innovative and leading edge communications solutions for today's global corporate enterprises," said Joseph Staples, AVT Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "Being a highly scalable product, built on proven NT-based technology that integrates with existing PBX, LAN, and groupware environments, CallXpress Enterprise allows today's large scale corporations to deploy proven AVT solutions across their entire environment."

CallXpress Enterprise supports up to 128 ports on a single Windows NT server. This capacity allows support for up to 10,000 users. Additional AVT systems can be added in a digital IP-based network environment to provide integration of campuses or branch offices-creating a complete solution not only for the large corporate campus, but for the entire global enterprise. CallXpress Enterprise also delivers horizontal scalability by integrating other key AVT NT services such as network fax and interactive voice response (IVR).

The administrative capabilities of CallXpress Enterprise are designed for large multi-site companies. The mailbox import feature allows administrators to quickly add, change, or delete one or more subscriber mailboxes using a single text file. This allows administrators to edit these mailboxes without having to type this information for each subscriber in the Subscriber Mailbox dialog box. The Mailboxes dialog box has also been enhanced to make searching and mailbox range copying and editing easier. A new class of service tool also allows administrators to create ranges of mailboxes based on the properties of existing template mailboxes.

From a telephone, a desktop computer, or a web browser, users can access all three message types-voice, fax, and email. Through Microsoft Outlook/Exchange or Lotus Notes users can view their voice and fax messages, along with any email messages-providing true unified messaging. In addition, CallXpress Enterprise offers support for all major brands of PBX telephone systems including those from NEC, Nortel, Ericsson, Lucent, Siemens, Fujitsu, and Mitel.

Critical to a true unified messaging solution is the development and ownership of an integrated enterprise fax solution. CallXpress Enterprise incorporates the company's award-winning fax server technology -- RightFAX. Developed by AVT, RightFAX is enterprise-capable and includes functionality for distributed fax processing and load balancing across multiple servers, centralized administration for all RightFAX servers on the network, and the ability to establish rules-based least cost routing using the Internet or other wide area networking transports.

Using the Internet or the corporate Intranet, CallXpress Enterprise supports true digital networking of all voice and fax messages. Compliant with the industry-standard networking protocol VPIM (Voice Profile for Internet Mail), CallXpress Enterprise provides users with a transparent method of exchanging messages throughout the enterprise at a reduced cost of deployment. In addition, digital networking provides greater functionality as compared to analog networking alternatives.

Taking full advantage of fault tolerant technology, CallXpress Enterprise integrates with hardware that offers fail-over safe redundancy including redundant components and disk mirroring.

CallXpress Enterprise will be generally available within 45 days and will be offered through AVT's direct enterprise accounts sales group, its strategic partners, and through the company's dealer channel. Pricing ranges between $35,000-$250,000 depending on configuration.

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