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InTouch
Digital Voice Servers were created to meet the demand by distributors and
system integrators for a enhanced services voice system providing features and
services normally found only on the industry leader’s large industrial
platforms, at a fraction of the cost of those larger systems.
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During
the 80’s and early 90’s the only voice systems commercially
available were all custom built against a specific customer order, and
while they worked well, adding extra capacity, both in phone lines and
storage hours, proved difficult and expensive.
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In
response to requests, from a number of PBX distributors and communication
system specialists, for an alternative to the large expensive voice systems, the first InTouch Digital
release was created in spring 1997, for an International PBX manufacturer to
serve the needs of the demanding Asian marketplace.
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However there were and still are, very few
software solutions that can provide the feature sets offered by the
industry leaders, and demanded by end-user customers, without the use of proprietary
hardware solutions.
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It
was to fill these needs that InTouch Digital was created as a feature
rich, full capability voice server, built on a modular open architecture,
which would run on a Microsoft® Windows platforms. Telephone integration
was achieved with the use of the widely accepted and available Intel®
Dialogic
hardware.
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The
InTouch
Digital Server was first released commercially in late 1997, and due to its modular
approach and ease of installation and integration quickly became the only
choice of one large PBX manufacturer for all their new and
upgrade installations in Asia, soon to be followed by that company’s
operations in Latin America.
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Many
of the first installations were replacements for older voice systems that
had not lived up to their initial specifications. Customers were attracted
by InTouch Digital’s ability to support multiple languages on the same
system, as well as its ability to be configured to provide the “look
and feel” of the system that it was replacing.
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The
InTouch Digital Hospitality service has also become a competitive tool for
many PBX distributors to replace older systems with new digital
communication packages, in the Hotel/Motel industry.