NEW YORK, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Seventy-six percent of all business
telephone calls end up in "voice mail jail." Twenty-five percent of all
international calls are faxes. Billions of dollars are lost on expensive,
archaic systems and software. Instead of losing customers and money,
companies look to Computer Telephony Conference and Exposition 98 (CT Expo
98) for solutions. The event celebrates the merger of computers, networks
and telephones into a cohesive whole. The premise: Making telephones smart
with computers.
CT Expo 98 is the fastest growing most recognized event in the computer
telephony industry, showcasing the chief makers and distributors of these
sanity-saving systems. The show spans March 3, 4, 5, 1998 at the Los Angeles
Convention Center.
Preview of CT Expo 98 News
1. First Albany Corporation, an investment banking firm, anticipates that by
2001, companies will use over 12.5 Billion minutes of Internet Telephony.
Internet Telephony uses packetized voice transmission for making free or
close-to-free calls over the Internet and private networks. At CT Expo 98,
you will find the top makers including Dialogic, Inter-Tel, Lucent,
Microsoft, MCI, NetSpeak and VocalTec. The companies are leveraging IP
technology for mainstream business applications including call centers and
help desks.
2. In a recent interview, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft envisioned a new
breed of NT-based communications controllers. He said they would eventually
replace traditional telephone switches. At CT Expo 98, this idea is
reality. Dozens of new PC-based telephone and messaging switches will debut.
Call them PC-PBXs. They've got voice mail, e-mail, switching and
conferencing all in one box. Makers include AltiGen, Comdial, Interactive
Intelligence, Mitel and NetPhone. You can test drive these promising
wonders at CT Expo 98.
3. Introducing your new inbox. Unified messaging puts e-mail, faxes and
voice messages all in one, neat inbox. Now, the Internet is the travelers'
messaging umbilical cord. Companies such as MediaGate, Telinet and NETcall
Technologies are redefining how we grab faxes, pages and voice messages
while we're on the run. You'll see it all live at CT Expo 98.
Over 30,000 attendees and over 600 exhibitors are expected at CT Expo 98,
(March 3, 4, 5 -- Los Angeles Convention Center). Value added resellers, IS
professionals and telecom managers worldwide attend CT Expo to find
solutions that make their telecommunications and computing systems more
efficient and profitable. In addition to the exhibits, this eighth annual
industry event offers 66 educational conference sessions and three
pre-conference workshops. The conference sessions are staffed with over 200
industry experts, leaders and authors.
Computer telephony comprises many disciplines including voice mail,
Interactive Voice Response, Fax-On-Demand and Internet Telephony. This
merger between computers, networks and telephones is a $5B industry. At a
25% cumulative average growth rate (CAGR) over the past five years, computer
telephony is attractive to Network Computer Resellers, Developers and
Integrators because of its value-added opportunities, high profit margins
and growth.
For more information see www.ctexpo.com or call 1-800-LIBRARY x2.
/CONTACT: Marzia Marzi, Press Relations Officer of CTExpo 98, 212-691-821
x226, or Fax: 212-691-1191, or www.ctexpo.com /
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