Toshiba Moves Ahead With IP Telephony Products

Toshiba Launches New Software Upgrade to Migrate Toshiba Digital Telephony Systems to Pure IP

Toshiba's Strata CIX IP business communications systems�are designed for small and mid-sized businesses or larger companies with multiple sites.

In its new offerings, Toshiba is extending the capabilities of its CIX line to meet the needs of a broader range of customers and to allow more of its customers to migrate to IP communications. It launched the first Strata CIX� in February, the CIX200, supporting up to 192 ports. Today's release adds the CIX670 (supporting up to 672 ports) and CIX100 (supporting up to 112 ports).

The software released today is Release 3.1, which, Toshiba says, "migrates an existing Toshiba Strata CTX digital business communications system to a Strata CIX pure IP system."

According to Michael E. Durance, vice president and general manager of TAIS DSD, Release 3.1 is meant to "provide a smooth migration path between technologies and systems�-- in this case from our IP-enabled Strata CTX digital telephone system to the pure IP Strata CIX system." Durance's statement says that the CIX100 and CIX670 are "able to function as full TDM systems, providing the same digital telephone system functionality as Strata CTX100 and CTX670 systems."

AB -- 5/24/05