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Thinking of buying for my new office. Will the voicemail system allow for message/bulletin boards so that there is no beep after the message? Thanks for your help!

Yeah, they call them announcement mailbox's.

thanks so much for the quick reply.

the announcement messages can be set to repeat ( I usually repeat 3X ) then dump the caller or return them to the main menu .

you can also run the announcement messages to a sub menu . freeing up selections on the main menu


I have a customer with 5 furniture stores so "for store info press 7 "

7 goes to a sub menu

for store one press one , for store two press two , for store three..etc

you get the idea

each going to a announcement MB with specifics of that particular store

yes I do. That's how we currnetly use our Legendmail (Avaya). Press "1" for sales info, then 1 for Mon, 2 for Tues, 3 for Weds, etc. The DSX looks like it will met our needs; just concerned about the quality after having the Merlin Legend workhorse for the past 10 yrs

I would expect easy 10 years out of it if its properly installed , grounded and has decent surge suppression

In any phone system purchase the vendor is a big part of long term reliability and customer satisfaction with the equipment

is the DSX80 as reliable? Lots of features for less than Avaya & Nortel.

hard to say , its new released less than a year ago .


flash vm's in general are fairly new


we have some of the pc based , Nitusko (predecessor of this NEC line) VMs that are 10 years + old still functional

time will tell how the flash card fare long term. (from all manufacturers not just NEC)

one of the things I always liked about Tie/ Nitusko and now NEC is the product does offer a lot more in features built in than the competition

always uncomfortable w/something new ... especially when what I have is still working. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to pay to move the old system (Merlin Legend) ... w/the warranty, etc it seems that the new DSX is the way to go. Thanks for your quick response.

Little off the topic, but felt it was not worth a post of it's own. Does the DSX voice mail support centrex tranfer.

Thanks
Walter