[April 21, 2000]

MUSIC Telecom Gains Marketing And Distribution Rights For Calista's Digital-To-Analog Voice-Logging Interface Product

MUSIC Telecom, Inc., and Cisco Systems, Inc. announced the signing of an agreement under which Cisco Systems will license MUSIC Telecom to exclusively manufacture and distribute its PBXmedia DAC 16. This product belongs to the collection of telephony boards used to integrate with proprietary digital PBXs such as Nortel, Siemens, Ericsson, and others. The PBXmedia DAC 16 was acquired from Calista, Ltd., a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, which is a leading provider of integration products for the Digital PBX (Private Branch Exchanges).

The innovative use of Calista's new Smart-Tap technology to support start/stop recording, combined with pure digital voice quality, provides MUSIC Telecom's customers with the clearest, most consistent voice-logging interface product available on the market.

PBXmedia DAC 16 is a 16-port ISA interface card that allows digital call recording equipment to extract voice from digital PBX extensions. It is then presented to the call recording device over the system's CT bus in a standard digital format (MVIP or SCSA). This method provides a superior solution to the traditional Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) because it avoids the unnecessary digital-to-analog conversion. PBXmedia DAC 16 replaces both the traditional DAC and analog card, providing higher quality voice recording, simplifying the solution, and reducing the cost of the entire voice recording system.

Moshe Tal, President of MUSIC Telecom comments, "We are delighted with this agreement and believe that the Cisco boards, sold alongside our Network Telephony Integration (NTI) boards, represent a unique technology that addresses the burgeoning call center/logging market."

[ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]