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March 20, 2004
Multi-Tech, Bogen provide voice paging over IP

UNITED STATES -- Bogen Communications, a provider of sound systems and telephone peripherals, and Multi-Tech Systems, a data communications technology company, will enable businesses to provide company-wide overhead paging to locations within a facility, or across a campus, without running new lines. Bogen's telephone access module, along with its amplifiers, and Multi-Tech's MultiVOIP VoIP gateways integrate seamlessly to provide overhead voice paging over IP networks. Now, a business can make a company-wide announcement or page employees across a campus of offices more efficiently. They can even page remote office locations located thousands of miles away.

Multi-Tech's MultiVOIP gateways connect to Bogen's single zone or multi-zone paging interfaces and a broad array of audio paging equipment to enable voice pages directly through IP data network. The gateway sends a voice page onto the IP network, and utilises another MultiVOIP gateway at the remote end, to separate the voice page from the data network and send it to the amplifier. To make a page, the user dials a particular paging zone number. The page can be sent to individual buildings or heard throughout the entire system as an "all-call page."

Dave Chambers, senior vice president, sales, Bogen Communications, said: "This powerful combination eliminates the need for new wiring required by traditional overhead paging systems. In most cases, running new wire between office locations is expensive or impossible, considering it might be to many sites countrywide or worldwide. Leased lines and excessive long distance bills are becoming a thing of the past with VoIP. Businesses with multiple buildings are networked via Ethernet. The MultiVOIP gateways allow us to use this connection to the WAN as a conduit for our voice paging systems.

"Without this innovative joint solution, most multi-location businesses would give up on the idea of company-wide overhead paging at remote, or difficult to reach locations, because of the cost. Now we can provide these businesses with a cost-effective means to render emergency alerts, make general broadcast announcements, and ultimately improve internal communications with a simultaneous paging solution, not to mention enhancing employee safety, a key concern today," he added.

Contact:
Multi-Tech Systems
Tel: +1 800 328 9717
www.multitech.com





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