Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 8 Jun 91 9:05:06 CDT From: Larry Krone Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Product Announcement / Testing Request Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 441, Message 1 of 8 Lines: 73 We have developed a product that utilizes centrex service provided by the local BOC and provides integrated Voice Mail and Fax capabilies. This product will do all the usual stuff for products in its class, plus allow call screening and off premises call transfer (If that feature is available in your local BOC centrex offering). There is also a facility for faxing product information to callers (the system will prompt for a FAX #). The fax information can be stored in either TIFF,Text or Postscript format. Since this package runs under Unix, it does not require a dedicated machine. We can currently run the product, our Public Access Unix system and several DOS (VP/IX) Page Maker jobs concurrently on our system without problems. System requirements: (1) An 80386 or 80486 based SCO Unix Machine with at least 10MB of free disk space and 5MB of memory. (2) A third party voice board (Dialogic or Rhetoric). (3) A compatible fax board, or a fax service such as AT&T mail. What we are looking for: We are a small company and this is our first 'product'. Our in-house testing has been as thorough as possible, but considering our low call volume (Fort Smith, Arkansas is not exactly the world's crossroads), we are still a little reticent to release it without some further testing. Therefore, we are looking for a few companies willing to supply the necessary hardware (if desired we will sell the hardware to a beta tester at our cost, we are dealers for various hardware lines) and sign a beta test agreement. Not being sure how this sort of thing is done in the industry, we would probably want to charge a small amount for the software to cover our costs (Telephone calls and the like) but no more than several hundred dollars to our beta testers (This point is negotiable.) We have considered the idea of turning our product into a PC Baseds switchboard . (The additional hardware to build a 16X8 switchboard out of it would not be that excessive (circa 2K)). If any one is interested in such a product, we would like to know also. We are also interested in interfacing our product to PBX systems, if interested let us know what you have .... How to reach us: By email: root@mus.com By telephone: (501) 452-9920. This line will be picked up by our product. Since we are still developing, the voices in the prompts change frequently and may not always be 'elegant'. Also, we occasionally bring the machine down to single user mode for system changes (We are testing performance on various disk drive and controller configurations) so the system might not always be up. (501) 784-2883. Our Answering Service. Thank you, Larry Krone