AVST Signs Letter of Intent to Purchase SaaS Technology from Voice Mobility International, Inc.

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., July 21 -- Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) today announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent to purchase certain assets of Voice Mobility International, Inc. (VMY, VMII and FWB: VMY) (Voice Mobility or VMI).  The principal assets being acquired in this transaction are the Voice Mobility UCN250 software as a service (SaaS) platform and all related technology and customers.  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

 The UCN250 is a highly scalable and reliable Linux and SIP-based SaaS platform that will be integrated into AVST’s unified communications (UC) solution portfolio to accelerate AVST’s ability to address the evolving communications requirements of current and future AVST customers.

Jay Hutton, Chairman and CEO of Voice Mobility, commented, “This partnership constitutes a critical part of the restructuring of Voice Mobility and the realignment of our strategic focus. Our partnership with AVST extends beyond today’s announced technology acquisition and is expected to be long-term in nature as Voice Mobility prepares to launch a suite of secure cloud-based UC services that will be sold directly into the SMB market.  We are excited to collaborate with AVST as VMI’s UC solutions partner leveraging the UCN250 SaaS platform to create a secure, mobile-centric UC services portfolio.  We will develop this offering in close consultation with AVST and expect to work together in taking it to market.  We believe that this long-term strategic technology partnership with AVST will enable us to bring UC solutions to market more expeditiously than we might otherwise on our own.”

According to AVST President & CEO, Hardy Myers, “The acquisition of VMI’s UCN250 technology fits perfectly with our strategic objective to be an industry leader in delivering best of breed and highly-interoperable premise-based, hybrid and cloud-based UC solutions.”

Closing of the transaction issubject to certain conditions precedent, including the execution of a definitive purchase agreement and satisfactory completion of due diligence by AVST.  Closing is expected to occur on or before December 31, 2010.

About Voice Mobility
Voice Mobility develops and markets its unified communications product line to enterprise, campus and hosted customers. Our product line includes highly scalable Voicemail, Unified Communication, Fax Service, Interactive Voice Response, and Auto-Attendant applications, as well as unique features like Emergency Event Notification, Mobile Client functionality, Presence, Speech applications and Desktop integration with industry leading software providers. Migration options are available allowing the transfer of messages and data from legacy OCTel® messaging servers. For more information, call Jay Hutton at 250-978-5052 or visit www.voicemobility.com.

 

About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments — now and into the future.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.

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AVST Announces New Version of Repartee

Marks the First Release Since the Acquisition of Active Voice

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., July 14, 2010 – Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), today announced the launch of Repartee^® LX 11.3 and Repartee LXi 11.3 (formerly known as Repartini), which offer hospitality, voicemail, call processing, automated attendant, unified messaging, personal call control and fax applications on a Linux-based platform.  Designed for small and mid-sized businesses, Repartee cost-effectively manages voice communications, improves customer service and increases productivity. The new release bolsters AVST’s offering for the hospitality market and features over 60 property management system integrations including the company’s first IP integration with Micros^® Fidelio, one of the industry’s most popular property management systems.

In April, AVST announced the acquisition of the Active Voice product lines including the Repartee family.  The introduction of Repartee LX and Repartee LXi marks the first new product release since the acquisition was announced and underscores AVST’s commitment to Active Voice customers and channel partners for ongoing support and development of the Active Voice product line.

For over 15 years Repartee has been serving the hospitality industry with a communications solution that facilitates a better hotel experience for guests, while keeping staff connected.  According to Tom Minifie, AVST Chief Technology Officer, “Repartee is well-known in the hospitality industry with a base of the world’s most prestigious hotels that rely on it as an integral part of their communications infrastructure.  This new version has features that come requested directly from our customers and includes a critical integration that will make hotel communications even more efficient and effective.”

Repartee offers all of the most critical communications features for hotel administration and guest communications.  Guest features include unlimited voicemail messages with message retrieval, automatic check-in/check-out, personalized greetings and wake-up call functionality.  Administration features include broadcast messaging to all hotel guests (in the event of an emergency or hotel-wide outage, etc.), custom distribution lists, wake-up call reporting, attendant administration interface and more.

Repartee LX 11.3 and Repartee LXi 11.3 are scheduled for general availability in the next 30 days through AVST’s established reseller channels. For more information about AVST’s products, please visit the company website at www.avst.com.

About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments — now and into the future.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.

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AVST On-Demand Webcast Building Unified Messaging into Your UC Strategy

Topic: Building Unified Messaging into Your UC Strategy

Description: Not all Unified Messaging solutions are built the same. When implementing Unified Messaging, it's important to select a flexible architecture to facilitate growth and manage your organization's approach to compliance and confidentiality. Critical considerations include multiple storage models within a single deployment, voicemail networking, your organization's security needs, and more. AVST will present the different Unified Messaging architectures and the benefits of each.

Duration: 38 minutes

 

To view the entire presentation, please visit:  http://www.avst.com/downloadcenter/presentation6.asp

For more information on AVST, please visit:  http://www.avst.com

 

 

Webcast Script (first 4 slides)

 

Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy

Slide 1 - Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy
Good afternoon or morning everyone, depending where you happen to be located here in the United States or wherever else. Welcome again to the webinar. Unified Messaging is really one of those technologies that started to become almost a catch phrase. Everyone's talking about it, everyone's looking towards it. Unified communications is another one of those (UC). Its kind of a big umbrella phrase its one of those phrases that's kind of out there and everyone talks about it but nailing down the definition for it and what's all encompassed in that can sometimes be a challenge. So we're going to take the unified messaging component of unified communications and see how that can fit in the overall plan and how the products from AVST can help you achieve your goals in developing your ongoing unified communications strategy.

Slide 2 - Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy
So today, the things we'll take a look at. First, take a look at a snapshot of who AVST is. Kind of go over unified messaging. What is unified messaging? What does it mean? Some people say if you get five people in a room and ask them “what is unified messaging”, you'd get 7 or 8 answers. That can sometimes be true so we're going to kind of define a few terms and get a fixed idea of what unified messaging really is and what the different options are out there. Everyone talks about unified messaging but the method in which it's implemented is different and significantly different based on what products you're looking at. The impact to your organization for those different implementation options can sometimes be very significant. That's what we're going to look at is how to take the architecture of unified messaging, the options available with unified messaging, and what are the things that you really need to consider as your evaluating the pluses and minuses of all the different methods of providing unified messaging. Of course, at the end we'll open it up for questions and answers. Please feel free to submit your questions in the chat window of the sidebar of the counsel or hold your questions until the end. We'll open it up for everybody to ask any types of questions at the end.

Slide 3 - Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy
So AVST, applied voice and speech technology. We have been around for a long time. We were actually one of the inventors of voicemail. Voicemail is one of those ubiquitous applications that's out there that we tend to think of has been around forever. But it really got its start in the late 70's and early 80's and AVST was one of the first companies to deliver a voice messaging application. We've been doing it for nearly 30 years now with really being the leaders in delivering advanced applications within this niche of the telecommunications, voice, and data industry. We are singularly focused on this technology and many of the aspects that surround this technology and the ways that this technology can really enhance your implementations to the unified communications strategy.

Slide 4 - Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy
We have a broad range of customers; we'll 2ake a snap shot at some of those. One of the things we're very proud of, because of the focus that we have in this particular niche of the industry. If you talk to any of the independent consulting firms that surround the industry, voice and data industry (Gartner, Frost and Sullivan and those types of organizations), and ask them their ideas of the leaders and those companies providing this. Without exception, all of those independent consulting firms will identify AVST and CallXpress as really being one of the most complete solutions that are available in the marketplace today. That really has been validated without presence in the marketplace. Voice Reports did a survey last year, late last year that surveyed many major organizations and enterprises to find out what was the primary voicemail system that they had. We were proud to be, by a wide margin, the leader within that survey that they sampled.

 

 

 

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AVST Announces General Availability of CallXpress 8.1

Sets a New Benchmark in Reliability by Combining Survivability, High Availability and Remote Disaster Recovery

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., June 14, 2010 – Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions, today announced the worldwide general availability of CallXpress® 8.1. The new version of CallXpress ensures enterprise resiliency and sets a new benchmark in reliability by combining survivability, high availability and remote disaster recovery into the platform. AVST continues in its goal to transform individual, group and enterprise productivity by introducing UCConnect™, an open development environment to quickly build innovative applications, and propels its leadership in unified messaging (UM) by expanding support to Google™ Gmail™, Microsoft® Exchange 2010 and Lotus® Notes® 8.5.

Resiliency
An important part of any enterprise IT strategy is continuous application availability. CallXpress 8.1 builds on existing high availability options and enhances disaster recovery initiatives by adding Neverfail’s® remote tertiary functionality to protect the CallXpress System Server against downtime. “The inclusion of the unique multi-tier approach to continuous availability demonstrates AVST’s commitment to enterprise resiliency,” said Paddy Falls, CTO, The Neverfail Group.  Remote tertiary support is an important step forward in eliminating downtime for all users of CallXpress’ mission-critical messaging operations. CallXpress continues to answer calls, transfer calls and take messages during system maintenance, such as adding port capacity or OS updates. All the while, the system remains safe from hardware failure or impending disaster. Moreover, CallXpress now supports up to 20 survivable Call Servers and provides an overall system architecture that offers centralization with a single point of administration.

Transforming Productivity
For three decades AVST has been transforming individual, group and enterprise productivity and has furthered its mission by making UCConnect available in CallXpress 8.1. UCConnect makes .NET ready tools available for developers to build applications which can improve human efficiency, enhance the customer experience and streamline business processes. “UCConnect is to CallXpress what applications are to the iPhone,” said Rob Simpson, President of Advanced Call Processing, an AVST value-added reseller. “UCConnect allows us to quickly create vertical specific applications for our customers in less time.”[[posterous-content:wBrjHiCmslnDpzFrtkki]]

“CallXpress is well-known in the industry as being highly flexible and highly interoperable,” said Tom Minifie, AVST Chief Technology Officer. “By making UCConnect available to our customers, we’re now able to add ‘highly customizable’ to that list. This recent enhancement keeps CallXpress on the cutting edge by offering a greater level of extensibility.”

AVST continues to extend its leadership with CallXpress 8.1, offering support to Google Gmail as well as other secure IMAP e-mail servers and services, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Lotus Notes 8.5.  Recently, leading industry research firm Gartner examined how to fit UM into a unified communications (UC) plan. “Do not assume that all users have the same requirements — for instance, some may benefit by using e-mail as their primary store for all messages, while others may benefit more from separate stores,”¹ wrote Bern Elliot, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst and Jay Lassman, Research Director with GartnerResearch. CallXpress is the most flexible platform on the market supporting multiple storage models within a single deployment. After years of experience AVST has developed a short list of 5 critical considerations for a successful UM deployment: 1) compliance 2) confidentiality 3) configurations 4) capability 5) cost.

CallXpress 8.1 provides other mission-critical functionality:

• CallXpress Mobile Client allows mobile users the ability to change their availability status from the most popular smartphone devices like the BlackBerry®, iPhone, Android™, Windows Mobile, or any application that can embed a web page, such as Microsoft Outlook® or Office Communicator;
• Windows® 7 Professional support for end-user and administrative client applications.

AVST’s CallXpress is the industry’s most interoperable UC platform with support for over 250 TDM and IP integrations and the ability to support multiple switches. CallXpress delivers call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech, and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can protect and extend its existing data and telephony infrastructure investment — now and into the future.

CallXpress 8.1 is immediately available through AVST’s established reseller channels. For more information about AVST’s products, please visit the company website at www.avst.com.

¹Gartner “Fitting Unified Messaging Into Your Unified Communications Plan,” by Bern Elliot and Jay Lassman.  December 2009

About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments — now and into the future.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.

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AVST Announces General Availability of CallXpress 8.1

Sets a New Benchmark in Reliability by Combining Survivability, High Availability and Remote Disaster Recovery

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., June 14, 2010 – Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions, today announced the worldwide general availability of CallXpress® 8.1. The new version of CallXpress ensures enterprise resiliency and sets a new benchmark in reliability by combining survivability, high availability and remote disaster recovery into the platform. AVST continues in its goal to transform individual, group and enterprise productivity by introducing UCConnect™, an open development environment to quickly build innovative applications, and propels its leadership in unified messaging (UM) by expanding support to Google™ Gmail™, Microsoft® Exchange 2010 and Lotus® Notes® 8.5.

Resiliency
An important part of any enterprise IT strategy is continuous application availability. CallXpress 8.1 builds on existing high availability options and enhances disaster recovery initiatives by adding Neverfail’s® remote tertiary functionality to protect the CallXpress System Server against downtime. “The inclusion of the unique multi-tier approach to continuous availability demonstrates AVST’s commitment to enterprise resiliency,” said Paddy Falls, CTO, The Neverfail Group.  Remote tertiary support is an important step forward in eliminating downtime for all users of CallXpress’ mission-critical messaging operations. CallXpress continues to answer calls, transfer calls and take messages during system maintenance, such as adding port capacity or OS updates. All the while, the system remains safe from hardware failure or impending disaster. Moreover, CallXpress now supports up to 20 survivable Call Servers and provides an overall system architecture that offers centralization with a single point of administration.

Transforming Productivity
For three decades AVST has been transforming individual, group and enterprise productivity and has furthered its mission by making UCConnect available in CallXpress 8.1. UCConnect makes .NET ready tools available for developers to build applications which can improve human efficiency, enhance the customer experience and streamline business processes. “UCConnect is to CallXpress what applications are to the iPhone,” said Rob Simpson, President of Advanced Call Processing, an AVST value-added reseller. “UCConnect allows us to quickly create vertical specific applications for our customers in less time.”

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“CallXpress is well-known in the industry as being highly flexible and highly interoperable,” said Tom Minifie, AVST Chief Technology Officer. “By making UCConnect available to our customers, we’re now able to add ‘highly customizable’ to that list. This recent enhancement keeps CallXpress on the cutting edge by offering a greater level of extensibility.”

AVST continues to extend its leadership with CallXpress 8.1, offering support to Google Gmail as well as other secure IMAP e-mail servers and services, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Lotus Notes 8.5.  Recently, leading industry research firm Gartner examined how to fit UM into a unified communications (UC) plan. “Do not assume that all users have the same requirements — for instance, some may benefit by using e-mail as their primary store for all messages, while others may benefit more from separate stores,”¹ wrote Bern Elliot, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst and Jay Lassman, Research Director with GartnerResearch. CallXpress is the most flexible platform on the market supporting multiple storage models within a single deployment. After years of experience AVST has developed a short list of 5 critical considerations for a successful UM deployment: 1) compliance 2) confidentiality 3) configurations 4) capability 5) cost.

CallXpress 8.1 provides other mission-critical functionality:

• CallXpress Mobile Client allows mobile users the ability to change their availability status from the most popular smartphone devices like the BlackBerry®, iPhone, Android™, Windows Mobile, or any application that can embed a web page, such as Microsoft Outlook® or Office Communicator;
• Windows® 7 Professional support for end-user and administrative client applications.

AVST’s CallXpress is the industry’s most interoperable UC platform with support for over 250 TDM and IP integrations and the ability to support multiple switches. CallXpress delivers call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech, and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can protect and extend its existing data and telephony infrastructure investment — now and into the future.

CallXpress 8.1 is immediately available through AVST’s established reseller channels. For more information about AVST’s products, please visit the company website at www.avst.com.

¹Gartner “Fitting Unified Messaging Into Your Unified Communications Plan,” by Bern Elliot and Jay Lassman.  December 2009

About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments — now and into the future.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.

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AVST Appoints Active Communications as APAC Distributor

New opportunities for advanced unified communications in the region

 

Users of Active Voice products in APAC have a new guarantee of service and software continuity following the signing of a regional master distribution agreement.

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), a leading developer of unified communications (UC) solutions, and Active Communications Australia Pty Ltd, a specialist in UC systems integration and support, have signed an Asia Pacific Master Distribution Agreement for the full range of AVST and Active Voice products.

The agreement brings certainty and opportunity to the local marketplace for both customers and telecommunications integrators for the first time since AVST bought NEC’s Active Voice division last month (AVST and NEC Corporation of America Expand Global Footprint for Unified Communications).

The new relationship signals a commitment from both companies to deliver highly interoperable, scalable and tailored UC solutions to customers across the enterprise.

Paul Baxter, CEO of Active Communications, said, “We are very pleased to be able to provide the structure and long standing technical expertise to allow businesses to confidently go forward with their strategic use of advanced unified communications.”

Hardy Myers, President & CEO of AVST, said, “The signing of Active Communications as our master distributor in the Asia Pacific region will enable us to extend our global reach and accelerate our position in the UC market.” 

Organisations in the region which currently use Active Voice products now have access to the full AVST product range, which includes CallXpress^® 8, a comprehensive UC platform designed to transform individual, group and enterprise productivity.  CallXpress is highly interoperable enabling organisations to maximise the return on their strategic telecom and IT infrastructure investments.

Technologies such as VoIP and UC are bringing telecoms firmly into the realm of IT infrastructure.

Baxter said, “The market is in a state of flux and moving rapidly away from traditional telecommunications to integrated Information Technology & Telecommunication (IT&T). There are huge opportunities for our growing channel network. Voice and data were run as separate departments; now the move is to data managing it all. There are ramifications across the business for direction, strategies and budgets. And there’s more to the new voice world than simply saving money by ditching a few Telco lines,” he said.

Active Communications is currently recruiting PBX resellers and IT&T integrators from around the region who are interested in augmenting their solution offerings with UC.

About Active Communications  www.activecommunications.com.au

Active Communications offers unified communications and system optimisation, support and maintenance for true IT&T integration.

Unified communications (UC) integrates real-time communication services such as telecommunications (including IP telephony), instant messaging, HD video conferencing, telepresence and speech recognition with other communication services such as voicemail, e-mail, SMS & fax and fax over IP.

With more than a decade of unified communications expertise, Active Communications has offices in Melbourne and Hong Kong serving the Asia Pacific region.

It sells and supports Active Voice and AVST products through a reseller network.

About AVST  www.avst.com

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services daily to maximise their productivity.  With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress^®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities.  With CallXpress, an organisation can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments— now and into the future.

For further information please contact:

Paul Baxter                       Active Communications Australia      +61 3 8796 5388
Shuna Boyd                      BoydPR                                              +61 2 9418 8100

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AVST Demonstrates Full Line of Products at the 2010 National ACUTA Conference and Exhibition

Features High Resiliency and Unified Messaging to Google Gmail with CallXpress

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 19, 2010 - This week at the 39^th Annual ACUTA Conference and Exhibition, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) will be showcasing its flagship Unified Communications (UC) platform, CallXpress^® 8, at booth #213 on the show floor at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort in San Antonio, Texas, on April 18-21.  AVST will focus on the most critical capabilities that enterprises should consider when looking to deploy their next generation UC solution.

AVST intends to clear the confusion for enterprise decision-makers searching for the right solution to migrate from a legacy voicemail environment to UC.  AVST is sponsoring a breakout session during the ACUTA program titled, "8 Critical Capabilities for Building Your Campus Communications," presented by Hardy Myers, President & CEO of AVST.  AVST will identify and weigh the critical capabilities in building a campus telephony infrastructure, including: architecture; scalability; high-availability options; UC integration capability; mobility options; management; diagnostic and remote support; and open standards.  This session is scheduled for Monday, April 19 at 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. in the Grand Oaks ‘N’ Meeting Room.

AVST will showcase how CallXpress delivers a high level  of resiliency through a  hot standby server and off-site disaster recovery deployment and expands unified messaging capabilities to Google Gmail, Microsoft^® Outlook^®, IBM^® Lotus^® Notes, Novell^® GroupWise^®, Mirapoint^®, or any IMAP4 compliant e-mail system.  CallXpress continues to deliver the core capabilities that are essential to universities and colleges by offering unparalleled PBX integration interoperability, high availability, and scalability to meeting the growing demands to centralize voice networks.

“CallXpress is installed at more than 800 educational institutions and has had great success in the higher education marketplace.  Each year we look forward to participating in ACUTA’s regional events as well as their annual national event, to help higher education campuses replace their outdated voicemail systems with a next-generation communications-enabled platform that supports their UC needs.  Our solution is a natural fit for the ACUTA audience, making this the perfect place to co-strategize while providing attendees with a forum to share information and actively participate in the development of AVST's future offerings," said Denny Michael, AVST's Vice President of Marketing.

AVST is also hosting a User Group Meeting for AVST or Active Voice customers attending the ACUTA conference, which is scheduled for Monday, April 19 at 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. in the Grand Oaks ‘N’ Meeting Room.  Tom Minifie, CTO of AVST, will present a roadmap for CallXpress 8. User Group member Scott Claverie, of California State University, Chico, will lead the forum on suggested topics from those in attendance.

ACUTA, which stands for the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education, is an international non-profit educational association serving colleges and universities.  Representing over 1700 individuals at nearly 800 institutions of higher education with members ranging from small schools and community colleges to the 50 largest U.S. institutions, ACUTA's core purpose is to support higher education institutions in achieving optimal use of communications technologies.

CallXpress 8 delivers a powerful suite of UC applications including advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities to help colleges and universities become more mobile and productive.  AVST is a Corporate Affiliate of ACUTA and has been acknowledged for its support of ACUTA's regional and national events over the last five years.  For more information about AVST's products for the higher education marketplace visit the company's website at www.avst.com.  For more information on the AVST CallXpress User Forum please visit www.avst.com/forum.

About AVST

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments — now and into the future.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.

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