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From: dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Multi-Line Voicemail Boards
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Date: 9 Nov 90 22:51:29 GMT
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In article <14492@accuvax.nwu.edu>, biar!trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J
Woodhead) writes:

[comments about bigmOuth PC voice equipment]

> I'm quite happy with it, but now I have a slightly more complicated
> bit of hardware on my Xmas shopping list.  What I need is a board that
> has the following features:

> * Can handle four or more calls simultaneously.
> * DMTF detection, audio recording and playback.
> * PC compatible
> * Hopefully buffers incoming and outgoing sampled audio on the board
>   so as to reduce the strain on the host machine.
> * Good low-level interface software library, in UNIX/XENIX if possible.
> * Also, it would be nice if more than one of these boards could be plugged
>   into a single PC.

Check out Dialogic Corp. of Parsippany, NJ.  They offer two, four, and
twelve-line cards, with MS-DOS and UNIX system software (drivers and
libraries).  These cards detect and generate touch tones, play and
record voice, and detect ring.  Add-ons allow this equipment to work
with DID trunks, T-1 circuits, interoffice (MF) trunks, voice-
recognition boards, and an audio switch matrix.  The latter, with some
adaptors that include telephone set interfaces, ringing power
supplies, etc., allows your PC to become a full PBX if you need that
much functionality.

> Anyone got any leads on such a beastie?  Oh yeah, if there is a
> multiline box that talks to it's host over Ethernet, that would do the
> trick too.

Put their cards in your PC and let the PC (running DOS or UNIX) talk
to the rest of your network.

No, I don't work for Dialogic.  Westmark is a value-added reseller of
their voice products, which we embed in our voice-response banking
applications.


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