MINNEAPOLIS, January 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Designed for SMS Applications in SMB Business Environments

Multi-Tech(R) Systems, Inc., a leading data communications and
telecommunications technology company based in suburban Minneapolis is now
shipping the company's turnkey SMS server appliance. The SMSFinder(TM) SMS
server comes in a compact and self-contained chassis that can be desktop or
wall mounted. It is equipped with an Ethernet(R) interface and a quad-band
GSM cellular modem that is carrier-approved for use in most parts of the 
world. Up to 600 SMS messages per hour from the new product can be used for 
tasks such as basic notifications, situational alerting and advertising 
campaigns. The model SF100-G single port SMSFinder Server has a 
20,000-entry address book, supports sorting, searching and group set-ups, 
and is currently available.

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"The use of SMS communications in small to medium sized businesses is a
new technology with applications providing opportunities to both users and
resellers," states Dilip Mistry, Managing Director Multi-Tech Systems EMEA.
"You probably are already familiar with SMS notifications as they relate to
larger organizations such as airlines using sophisticated SMS servers to
notify groups of customers when flight schedules change. On the SMB side,
notification applications for SMSFinder might include letting customers know
when items have arrived that were out-of-stock when purchased, rain-checked
or special ordered. Technical support departments could also use SMS
notifications concerning repair requests using return messages for
confirmations.

"Alert messages from marketing could be used when selling any sort of
perishable product. You may need the ability to initiate a short selling
promotion to field sales personnel to move a certain product before it is
unusable. SMS also could be used when non-safety related recalls are
initiated and you need to contact customers.

"But the killer app is probably going to be advertising. The key to this
application for SMBs is that any advertising is on an opted-in basis which
means only people who want the SMS advertising, and sign up for it, receive
it. It is a desirable way to target market customers for restaurants, retail
merchants. SMS is ideal to reach the late teen to middle age demographic for
special deals. Such advertising is timely, reaches the highly mobile
audience, is inexpensive and most importantly it is very personal."

Multi-Tech Systems is an ISO 9001:2000 certified global manufacturer of
telephony, Systems has 75 U.S. patents and numerous international patents.
Contact Multi-Tech in the U.S. at +1-800-328-9717 or +1-763-785-3500, via 
fax at +1-763-785-9874, EMEA at T: +44-118-959-7774 (UK) or 
T: +33-1-49-19-22-06 (France), or via fax at F: +44-118-959-7775 (UK) 
or F: +33-1-49-19-21-00 (France) or at http://www.multitech.com.

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