IVX E-Class Product Overview Rev. A

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IVX E-Class

Product Overview

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About ESI

ESI (Estech Systems, Inc.) is a privately held corporation based in Plano, Texas. Founded in 1987, ESI specializes in telephone systems for the small to mid-size business. Since its days as a small start-up, ESI has enjoyed exceptional stability and growth while maintaining its dedication to small company values — including the need to take care of the most important part of the equation: your business.

ESI pioneered the all-in-one telephone and voice mail system. The original IVX, introduced in 1996, repre-sented a radical breakthrough in system design: the inclusion of a full suite of features within a single integrated telephone design.

Committed to excellence, ESI is an ISO-9001-certified company — assuring that quality is fundamental.

IVX is a registered trademark of Estech Systems, Inc. Motorola and ColdFire are registered trademarks of Motorola, Inc. Act! is a registered trademark of Symantec Corporation. Goldmine is a trademark of Goldmine Software Corporation. Microsoft, Windows and

Outlook are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Panasonic and DBS are registered trademarks of Matsushita Electric Corporation of America. Smart Jack is a trademark of Westell Technologies, Inc.

ESI products are protected by U.S. Patents 6,067,349 and 6,252,944, and others pending.

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System overview

IVX® E-Class is the latest generation of ESI’s IVX (Integrated Voice Exchange) advanced business

telecom-munications system. It includes voice mail, an automated attendant, and automatic call distributor (ACD). Moreover, this system optionally supports Esi-Mail™ Unified Messaging and advanced voice over IP (VoIP) communications. Two systems are available: the IVX 72e and the IVX 128e.

System Features

The IVX E-Class system is designed to handle as many as 66 CO lines (see “System capacity,” page 10). For offices with higher-bandwidth needs, T1 and PRI support is also available through the installation of DLC 12 cards — one on IVX 72e, up to two on IVX 128e.

Impressive expansion capability1 — Handles up to 66 CO lines and up to 84 stations.

T1 and PRI support — Can connect to higher-bandwidth lines, which more and more offices use.

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Extensive help — ESI’s Verbal User Guide™ uses spoken and displayed help prompts to help everyone from the Installer through the Administrator down to the least experienced end user. Easily accessible with one press of the HELP key. You may also go to www.esiivx.com for up to date online help.

Enhanced Caller ID2 — Allows one-touch automatic message return.

Live call recording3 — Can record any conversation or personal memo, with moving or copying of any recording to another user’s voice mailbox (see “Voice mail features,” on next page).

Call waiting2 — Includes helpful display, showing both calls’ Caller ID information, and easy one-key toggling between calls.

Conference calling — Includes 24 conference bridges, and a conference may contain up to four parties,

so the IVX E-Class system can support six conferences of four parties each or eight conferences of three parties each.4 Analog phones on the system also may create conferences.

Esi-Dex™ speed-dialing5 — Calls any number using four separate lists (personal, station, system and — when Esi-Link™ is in use — location); uses Caller ID2 information or direct keypad entries.

Dedicated overhead paging interface — Allows for external paging through overhead speakers or

multi-zone paging units (amplification required).

911 alert — Provides immediate line access if any station with line access dials 9 1 1 to report

an emergency; sends a message via the serial port indicating the start date, time, station number and end-time of the 911; also sounds a warning tone at the operator station and displays, for example:

911 CALL FROM X102 JOHN JAMES

Important: Remember to advise your customers not to make 911 calls using Remote IP Feature Phones. Because a Remote Phone isn't connected directly to its local telephone network, one must use a regular phone connected locally, not the Remote Phone, to make 911 or other emergency calls.

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The IVX 72e expands only to 42 CO lines and 48 stations. 2

This and all other references to Caller ID service within this document assume the end-user organization subscribes to Caller ID service from its telephone service provider.

3_{Not available on the 12-Key Digital Feature Phone.} 4

The IVX E-Class system also supports any combination that does not exceed 24 parties and does not exceed four parties in any conference — e. g., four three-party conferences and three four-party conferences.

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IVX E-Class Product Overview

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Esi-Link™ support — Allows a multi-site enterprise to network any combination of up to 100 compatible

ESI phone systems (or ESI IP Gateways) across an IP-based network.

Off-premises transfer (trunk-to-trunk transfer) — Enable the system to pass phone calls along to

users who are off-site.

Esi-Mail™ Unified Messaging — With ESI’s optional Esi-Mail™, you can view your voice and email mes-sages in one inbox, prioritize each message by importance, select for playback any voice mail mesmes-sages you want to review. The integrated ESI-Mail™ toolbar allows for synchronized control between your Out-look 2000® or 2002® inbox and your voice mailbox.

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Remote IP Feature phone capability — With the rapid growth of DSL and other broadband services,

fully functional Remote IP Feature Phones can be deployed to small remote locations such as local sub-offices or teleworkers’ desktops at home.

Voice mail features

Built-in voice mail ports — These are in addition to the up-to-128 possible call-processing ports; thus,

you may build the system to its maximum for call-handling without having to balance voice mail needs versus call-handling needs. IVX 72e has eight voice ports, while IVX 128e has 16 voice mail ports.

Highest-grade voice quality (64-Kbit/second sampling) for voice mail and other storage of voice messages. Eight message-on-hold recordings — Among these are three prerecorded tracks; also supports use of live

audio feed.

Off-premises message delivery — Delivers notification of new messages to a phone or pager.

Off-premises “reach me: — Allows someone forwarded to a voice mailbox to still reach the called party at

a designated number.

Urgent messages — Can deliver higher-priority messages first.

Several different mailbox types — Includes group, broadcast, informational, cascade paging Q & A,

and guest.

Message Recycle Bin (undelete) — Remembers, and can restore, each mailbox’s 10 most recently

deleted messages

Quick Groups™ — Makes it easy to leave voice mail messages for several users.

Quick Move™ — Records a conversation into another user’s mailbox.

Virtual Mailbox Key™ — Allows easy monitoring of a second mailbox.

Auto attendant features

Six levels, 100 branches — Allow you and your customer to set up a more caller-friendly answering

environment, including a company directory.

Virtually unlimited call routing, including off-premises transfer.

ACD features

Routes calls within designated departments for quickest possible call answering.

Uses Digital Feature Phone display to provide up-to-the-second information on queues and wait times.

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Phone models

The IVX E-Class system supports three different models of ESI Digital Feature Phones.

Display

Model Lines Characters Speakerphone Programmable feature keys

3 561 Yes 30

48-Key Digital Feature Phone (also available as IP, Remote IP, and TAPI).

24-Key Digital Feature Phone 2 32 Yes 12

12-Key Digital Feature Phone 1 16 No 9

Each model connects to the cabinet via standard two-wire twisted pair cable.

The intelligent display and the extensive spoken prompts from ESI’s Verbal User Guide™ deliver vital call-handling information and are readily understandable by even a novice ESI phone user. For added reliability, each ESI phone has a sealed membrane below the keys, making it virtually spill-proof. The sturdy base lets the user adjust each phone four different ways — from near-horizontal to near-vertical — to fit easily on any desk or counter space.

Phone overlays

Each ESI Phone comes with one overlay for the programmable feature keys. To order additional overlays, visit the DESI™ website at www.desi.com. You can also download the free Windows-based software, DESI

Lite, which allows you to print on the overlays. For assistance with DESI products, please consult the DESI

website.

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48-Key Feature Phone

The 48-Key Digital Feature Phone is ideal for the majority of users because it takes full advantage of all the system’s capabilities. The 48-Key Feature Phone has a variety of programmable and built-in features. It comes in four versions: Digital, TAPI, IP, and Remote IP. Additionally, it supports the optional 60-Key Expan-sion Console. The 48-Key Feature Phone’s built-in voice mail features and voice prompts make it easy to program and use.

The Remote IP Feature Phone is designed to be used by telecommuters or for small remote offices equipped with broadband Internet access such as DSL, cable modem or ISDN.

Even though remote, the phone operates as does any other extension on its host IP E-Class system, and will function just as if part of the LAN. It performs features such as lamp appearances, paging, voice mail, conferencing, and call transfers in precisely the same way as the IP Feature Phone.

The TAPI Phone is an optional version of the 48-Key Digital Feature Phone. It provides a TAPI cable and adapter to facilitate connection to a PC serial port for Basic Telephony Integration to such standard pack-ages as Act!®, Goldmine® and Microsoft Outlook. A Digital Feature Phone cannot be field-upgraded to a TAPI Phone. PROGRAM feature key Feature key P/UP (pickup) key Speaker

3-line, 56-character display Volume/scroll keys

HELP key for

access to Verbal User Guide and tutorial

Status Indicator Light

ESI-DEX feature key VOICEMAIL key PAGE key 30 programmable feature keys Microphone for built-in speakerphone Fixed feature keys

RECORD key

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Optional 60-Key Expansion Console for use with the 48-Key Feature Phone

The 60-Key Expansion Console adds 60 additional programmable feature keys to a designated user's extension. The console is connected to its host 48-Key Digital Feature Phone via a special cable (pro-vided) and doesn’t require a separate station port of its own.

You program the Expansion Console’s keys just as you do the programmable feature keys on your ESI Feature Phone, using either direct or traditional programming.

Note: Up to 20 Expansion Consoles can be installed in a fully configured system — six with Base Cabinet I and the additional 14 with Base Cabinet II (thus allowing addition of only six Expansion Consoles to IVX 72e).

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24-Key Digital Feature Phone

The 24-Key Digital Feature Phone is ideal for less active phone users. The phone’s display and program-mable feature keys combine for maximum productivity. The 24-Key Feature Phone’s built-in voice mail features and voice prompts make it easy to program and use.

2-line, 32-character display Volume/scroll keys

12 programmable feature keys

ESI-DEX feature key

Speaker

VOICE MAIL feature key

PAGE key P/UP (pickup) key

PROG/HELP

combo fixed feature key for phone programming

as well as access to Verbal User’s Guide

and tutorial

Status indicator light

Microphone for built-in speakerphone Fixed feature keys

RECORD fixed feature key

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12-Key Digital Feature Phone

The 12-Key Digital Feature Phone is for infrequent users requiring feature access, but less customization, or areas such as a lobby, warehouse, or waiting room.

Volume/scroll keys 1-line, 16-character display 9 programmable Speaker feature keys PAGE key

Fixed feature keys

P/UP (pickup) key

PROG/HELP

combo fixed feature key for phone programming

as well as access to Verbal User’s Guide

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System components

IVX E-Class cabinet components consist1 of:

Base Cabinet I

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– Main board

– Memory Module

– Two port card slots

– External wall-mounted transformer

• Base Cabinet II (optional)

– Expansion board

– External wall-mounted transformer

– Available only for IVX 128e

Expansion Cabinet (optional)

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– Up to two of these can be placed in a system (one per each Base Cabinet I or II)

Each system, IVX 72e or IVX 128e, consists of a Base Cabinet I. IVX 72e can accept one Expansion Cabinet to support up to four port cards; IVX 128e can accept one Expansion Cabinet, then a Base Cabinet II and a second Expansion Cabinet to support up to seven port cards. The wall-mounted Base Cabinet I is designed for easy installation and easy component access. It houses the Memory Module and Main Board, one multi-purpose serial port, a MOH connector and two port card slots (see “Port card options,” page 9). The Base Cabinet I can support one Expansion Cabinet, for a potential total of four port cards.

To expand an IVX 128e system beyond the Base Cabinet I (and its

Expansion Cabinet), connect a Base Cabinet II via ribbon cable to the Base Cabinet I. The Base Cabinet II houses up to two port cards; it can also support one Expansion Cabinet. You can “piggy-back” an Expansion Cabinet to the front of each IVX E-Class Base Cabinet. Each Expansion Cabinet houses up to two additional port cards each, enabling the system

to grow to its maximum configuration — four port cards on IVX 72e, or seven port cards on IVX 128e.

Main board

The IVX E-Class main board combines leading-edge hardware components — including a Motorola® ColdFire® processor and DSP structure — along with proprietary operating system software. The board provides: system control of the Memory Module and port cards; a standard RS-232C DB9 serial port; a built-in 33.6 Kbs modem for remote access; an external paging-device interface; an MOH interface; and support for the optional NSP.

Memory Module

The Memory Module — a hard disk drive with improved performance — contains all system programming and configuration data, and pre-loaded voice prompts. The Memory Module provides 70 hours (IVX 72e) or 280 hours (IVX 128e) of voice storage at 64 kilobits/second — the industry's highest-quality sampling rate.

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Network Services Processor for Esi-Mail

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option

The NSP hardware interface consists of a dedicated Ethernet® port. Its external RJ-45 jack provides a 10/100Base-T connection to the LAN. The NSP is field-installable and upgradeable. A mounting bracket is included, as well as a cable assembly for power connection and input/output lines to the NSP port on the system main board.

There are three versions (models) of the NSP:

• NSP-5 — LAN/WAN Remote Programming, plus unified messaging for up to five voice mailboxes.

• NSP-25 — LAN/WAN Remote Programming, plus unified messaging for up to 25 voice mailboxes.

• NSP-U — LAN/WAN Remote Programming, plus unified messaging for an unlimited number of voice mailboxes.

Port card options

Several kinds of port cards are available for the IVX E-Class system. Each port card is equipped with a standard female amphenol connector for easy wiring to a standard 66 or 110 block.

CO line ports on applicable cards support standard CO and Centrex

loop-start lines.1 The analog ports provide a standard 24-volt, two-wire connection to fax machines, cordless phones, modems, etc.2; IVX 72e can support as many as 16 analog ports, while IVX 128e can support as many as 28.

684 — Provides circuits to connect up to six analog loop-start CO

lines, eight Digital Feature Phones and four analog station ports. • • • • • • • •

612 — Provides circuits to connect up to six analog loop-start CO

lines and 12 Digital Feature Phones.

A12 — Connects up to 12 analog devices (only). Uses 12 station ports and no CO ports when installed. D12 — Connects up to 12 Digital Feature Phones (only).

DLC 12 (Digital Line Card)3 — Includes interface circuitry to connect a single T1 span. Any of (or all) channels of the span (24 with T1, 23 with PRI) can be assigned, and the DLC 12 supports loop-start, ground-start, E&M and DNIS/DID trunk types with immediate, wink-start or dial-tone-start signaling. The DLC 12 is equipped with a built-in CSU that can be connected directly to a network interface unit, Smart Jack™ or ISDN PRI. Additionally, up to 12 Digital Feature Phones can be connected to the DLC 12.

LNC (Local Network Card) — Provides the 10/100Base-T RJ-45 interface that allows the system to

con-nect to an Ethernet® network. The LNC converts IP packets into PCM (pulse-code modulation) traffic for transmission over the PSTN.

RNC (Remote Network Card) — Provides G.729a compression to support Remote IP Feature Phones.

There are three varieties, RNC 3, RNC 12; and RNC 24 each card’s numerical designation indicates how many remote network channels the card can support simultaneously. The RNC compresses the two-way talk path to 8 Kbps (each way). Each compressed bi-directional channel, including voice and control sig-naling, requires only 44 Kbps. This compression makes connections between the IVX E-Class system and Remote IP Feature Phones practical.

ELRNC (Esi-Link™ RNC) — Same as the RNC, except that it also supports Esi-Link™ multi-site

com-munications. There are three varieties, ELRNC 3, ELRNC 12; and ELRNC 24 as is true for the three RNCs, each card’s numerical designation indicates how many remote network channels of voice com-pression the card can support simultaneously.

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Ground-start CO lines are not supported. 2

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System capacity

IVX 72e IVX 128e

Fixed ports Four (Maintenance/SMDR serial port; MOH

port; modem port; and overhead paging port)

Call processing ports, maximum 72

or 90 with the DLC 12

126

Combined digital and analog stations1, maximum 48 84

Maximum analog stations 16 28

CO lines, maximum, if using DLC 12 cards 42 66

CO lines, maximum, if not using DLC 12 cards 24 42

Note: If DLC 12 cards are used and the maximum CO lines exceed 42, then IVX 128e cannot achieve the maxi-mum of 84 stations. The total ports cannot exceed 126. If a DLC 12 card is installed, the system sets 24 ports for COs, even if a fractional T1 is used.

Any of the following cards — RNC 3, ELRNC 3, RNC 12 or ELRNC 12, RNC 24 or ELRNC 24 — will reduce the total CO line capacity by either three 12, or 24 (depending on the card’s numerical designa-tion).

For more information, see the IVX E-Class Installation Manual (#0450-0327).

Note: An IVX 72e can be upgraded to an IVX 128e. However, once this is done, you cannot revert it back to an IVX 72e.

System programming

The installer can program the system locally or remotely, through either a phone or one of ESI’s Windows® -based applications — Esi-Access for you and Esi-Admin for the Administrator. Either application runs on a PC-compatible computer which is connected to the system: (a.) from another location, via the built-in modem; (b.) across the LAN/WAN via ESI’s Network Services Processor (NSP); or (c.) via a physical link to the system’s RS-232C serial port.

Connections

External paging device connection

A dry contact overhead-paging device can be connected to the system through the first port card's 66 block.

CO line connection

The IVX E-Class system's advanced CO line circuitry provides for open loop detection and the system’s built-in Caller ID interface. For T1 or PRI applications, the IVX E-Class system can use the DLC 12 card. Each DLC 12 provides a T1 interface supporting 24 DS0 channels and 12 digital stations. Up to 24 CO line inter-faces2 (selectable as loop start lines, ground start E&M and DNIS/DID trunks). The total line capacity is 42 for an IVX 72e system and 66 for an IVX 128e system. For more details concerning the DLC 12, see the

IVX E-Class Installation Manual (#0450-0368).

Station connection

Each port card amphenol connects to station ports (either 12 digital stations on the 612 or DLC 12 card or eight digital stations and four analog ports on the 684 port card). All stations are connected using a single pair. Each port position is pre-numbered and fixed. Digital Feature Phone station runs can be up to 1,000 feet.

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The number of analog station ports cannot exceed . 2_{Or 23, if using PRI.}

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Esi-Link

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(VoIP multi-site)

On those IVX E-Class systems where an optional LNC and ELRNC have been installed, Esi-Link™ — ESI’s VoIP multi-site solution — allows the enterprise to connect up to 100 ESI IP PBXs seamlessly across an existing WAN and use available bandwidth for inter-system call traffic. This capability greatly reduces long distance costs and streamlines interoffice communications. Any authorized user can access internal dial tone in any remote location by dialing its Location Number (which is as easy as pressing a key pro-grammed with that Location Number). The user can then access the remote location’s local dial tone and dial any extension or access other functions within that remote location’s system. The Esi-Dex directory includes a Location Dex (along with Personal, Station and System) for selecting a remote location and ac-cessing its Station Dex; thus, user directories from all locations are always available and up-to-date. For more information on Esi-Link™ , see the Esi-Link™ Product Overview (#0450-0214).

Esi-Mail

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With ESI’s Esi-Mail™, you can view your voice and email messages in one inbox, prioritize each message by importance, select for playback any voice mail messages you want to review. The integrated Esi-Mail™ toolbar allows for synchronized control between your Outlook 2000® or 2002® inbox and your voice mailbox. Esi-Mail™ Unified Messaging is easy to implement. It connects to your existing LAN and is non-invasive. There is no need to upgrade the network or install Microsoft Exchange® - a costly and impractical solution for the small to mid size business. Esi-Mail™ requires only Microsoft® Outlook 2000® or 2002®.

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