Panasonic Standardizes on Brooktrout Technology's Voice Processing Platforms For New Messaging Product Family - Product Announcement

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Dec 13, 1999

Brooktrout Technology Tuesday announced that Panasonic has developed a cost effective, flexible line of voice messaging systems for small to large businesses based on Brooktrout Technology's Ensemble Series messaging platforms. Panasonic's PanaVOICE Courier product family delivers feature-rich voice and unified messaging solutions that meet customers' requirements for low cost and scalability.

Brooktrout Technology's Ensemble Series is an OEM solution featuring a bundle of cost-effective, light industrial PC technology paired with Brooktrout Technology's voice processing platforms. The bundled package provides high performance message processing capabilities within the PanaVOICE Courier products, supporting Panasonic's full range of automated attendant, voice mail, unified messaging, audiotext, interactive voice response, digital logging and dictation features.

"Brooktrout Technology's Ensemble Series messaging platforms provide complete, cost-effective and powerful message processing capabilities that enable Panasonic to deliver a host of exceptional voice and unified messaging features in the PanaVOICE Courier product family for small to large businesses," said Ed Caliendo, assistant general manager of Marketing at Panasonic. "This partnership enables us to meet the needs of our customers today, and allows us to tap Brooktrout Technology's superior voice, IP and fax technologies for another generation of Panasonic solutions that we plan to develop in the near future."

Panasonic's PanaVOICE Courier messaging systems, including the Courier, Courier Plus and Courier UMS systems, deliver exceptional value and robust functionality for computer telephony business applications. Each messaging system delivers an array of powerful and flexible messaging features that are easily customizable, allowing businesses to expand the system and add new features as they become needed, without incurring costly hardware upgrades. The PanaVOICE Courier systems are highly scalable, offering from 2 to 32 port systems with an unrestricted number of mailboxes. The systems also feature high volume message storage of up to 400 hours.

"Panasonic's PanaVOICE Courier messaging products are excellent examples of the kinds of cutting edge messaging solutions that businesses require for their electronic communications needs," said Philippe Astie, business manager of embedded systems and technologies at Brooktrout Technology. "We are excited that Panasonic chose our Ensemble messaging platforms, as they are quickly becoming essential for OEMs wishing to provide cost-effective, feature-rich voice messaging capabilities to operate seamlessly in their messaging solutions."

Brooktrout Technology's Ensemble Series offer a range of cost-effective messaging platforms to OEMs demanding performance and price points in a bundled package. It delivers a scalable, flexible messaging platform for DOS, Windows95/98 and Windows NT operating systems, enabling OEMs to develop an array of voice messaging solutions. At the heart of Ensemble's performance are Brooktrout Technology's enhanced voice and fax processing algorithms, including AccuTalk, AccuDigit and AccuCall for field-proven software essential features such as audio compression, touch-tone detection and call progress monitoring, and Positive Voice Control algorithm, which responds to characteristics found only in human speech patterns to provide quick and accurate call answer detection.

Brooktrout Technology, a Brooktrout Company, provides enabling technologies for customers to deliver voice, fax and data solutions for the electronic communications market. Brooktrout Technology's high performance, high quality products include voice, fax, remote access and WAN access cards, application development tools, and voice systems. For more information, visit www.brooktrout.com .

Brooktrout, headquartered in Needham, Mass., is a worldwide supplier of electronic communications products. Through its multiple companies and divisions, Brooktrout, Inc.'s mission is to provide high performance, high quality electronic communications products to system vendors, service providers and VARs dependent on electronic information exchange. Brooktrout is traded publicly on Nasdaq under the symbol BRKT. For more information, visit www.brooktroutinc.com.