
The details
- Full integration
With an ESI C-Plus business communications system, just one compact cabinet does what other systems must combine multiple boxes to do. This makes installation and maintenance much simpler.
- Grows with your business or organization, with up to:
- Eight lines × 16 digital stations × four fully functional analog ports.
- Four built-in voice mail ports.
- Six-hour voice storage.
- Digital Feature Phones
- Two versions: 24-Key and 12-Key.
- Fully digital 2B+D.
- Stylish and compact, to fit any workspace.
- Convenient four-position tilt mount; also wall-mountable.
- Simple installation with one-pair, non-polarity-sensitive wiring.
- “Ruggedized” design resists abuse and spills.
- Big, easy-to-read display (24-Key Feature Phone available with backlit display).
Provides various combinations of the following, depending upon the system configuration,
the ESI Feature Phone model and the current operation:
— Date and time
— Current line usage
— Phone number dialed
— Name of caller1
— Elapsed time on current call
— Remaining time on currently playing message or recorded call - Dedicated feature keys; Esi-Dex™ (indexed speed-dialing) keys; and up/down keys for independent digital control of speaker and handset volume.
- Programmable feature keys provide one-touch access to stations, lines, speed-dialing and other features.
- Tri-color LEDs make keys’ use even easier.
- Works with not only ESI C-Plus but also ESI Communications Servers — simplifying migration when your business needs a bigger system.
- High-quality speakerphone (24-Key Feature Phone) gives you hands-free ease for both
talking and listening when it’s necessary. ESI audio is unusually sensitive for any speakerphone, much
less for a phone in this price class.
Note:
The ESI C-Plus Executive system has all the features of the ESI C-Plus as described herein and support for up to two 48-Key Digital Feature Phones, giving you even more communications power. Ask your ESI Reseller about the ESI C-Plus Executive.
- ESI Digital Cordless Handsets2 provide most
features of 24-Key Feature Phones, but in a portable form for those who are always on-the-go in the
workplace
— Two models, compact and heavy-duty
— Unique Quick Switch feature simplifies using both desktop phone and Cordless Handset
- Up to four fully functional analog ports
Support for voice mail, hold/retrieve, transfer, page, call waiting, off-premises message delivery and more.
- Fully featured voice mail with auto attendant
- Six hours of message storage
- Four channels (ports) dedicated to voice mail
- Automated attendant with up to 18 branches
Available for as much as or as little use as your business may require. Performs virtually limitless call routing, including directories, automatic day/night operation, transfer-off-premises, pager notification, etc. - Auto attendant trunk-to-trunk transfer
Makes it possible for your Installer to set up transferring calls off-premises without the need for Centrex. - Live call screening
Works like a home answering machine; lets you listen to an incoming message while the ESI C-Plus is recording it. If you want to answer, just lift the handset. Otherwise, the ESI C-Plus will record the message to your voice mailbox for later retrieval. - Off-premises message delivery to a cell phone or home phone
Combined with pager notification, this provides impressive notification capability. - Live call recording
One-touch ease in recording any conversation, even a conference call. The resulting recording is available for copying to others via voice mail; great for keeping your colleagues “in the loop.” - Message Recycle Bin lets you “un-delete” 10 most recently deleted messages)
- Quick Groups
Have a thought to share with others? Press the VOICE MAIL key and the appropriate station keys (soft feature keys programmed for specific extensions) and instantly leave a voice message for all. - Quick Move™ allows you to press a programmable feature key during live recording to move the message automatically to that user’s mailbox. Ideal for supervisor/secretary work.
- Virtual Mailbox Key™ is a programmable function key “tied” to any mailbox; allows easy monitoring of a second mailbox.
- Multiple personal greetings
- Quick Groups™ feature simplifies leaving a voice mail message for numerous stations: just press the VOICE MAIL key and then the appropriate station keys.
- Records voice messages with 64 Kbit-per-second sampling to provide the highest quality sound a telephone line can carry.
- Four music-on-hold (MOH) recordings — Use the supplied music tracks, or your own.
- Enhanced Caller ID1
The ESI C-Plus delivers maximum call-handling simplicity with no add-on hardware. Every ESI phone has a built-in display, giving your office maximum use of this capability. ESI’s special enhancements let you not only return a call with just a keystroke but also, using Esi-Dex, quickly add the caller to your speed-dial list.
- Background announce
Privately hear intercom messages while talking to outside calls.
- Two conference bridges
Accessible from either digital or analog ports; each able to handle either three or four people.
- Off-premises “reach-me”
Allows a caller forwarded to your voice mailbox to reach you at an external number (e.g., your home phone or mobile phone).
- Dedicated HOLD key
Supports both system-wide and exclusive (station-specific) hold. Permits virtually unlimited hold “orbits.” (Also supports hold/retrieve with analog phones.) Holds calls for easy pickup at any station without elaborate codes to remember. For exclusive hold, just hold down the key for a second.
- Enhanced headset operation
Allows normal station operation even when using a handset.
- Esi-Dex built-in directory
- Works with Caller ID1 to keep an alphabetical speed-dial list; accessible with just a keystroke and shown on the display.
- Three separate speed-dialing lists: personal, station and system.
- Users can make entries directly from the Digital Feature Phone keypad.
- Caller ID Key™
Shows Caller ID1 data for an extension’s last 25 callers. The user can return each call by pressing one key.
- Call waiting
Works as this feature does at home. Toggle between callers, or allow the second caller to go to your voice mailbox. The display keeps you informed.
- Verbal Help Key™, Verbal User Guide™
and Web-based help
Combine to provide instant, context-sensitive help with programming and just plain using your ESI C-Plus system.
- Virtual Answer Key™
For use when one is already on another call but wants to give special attention to a second call that’s in call waiting. Set as many as two programmable feature keys to be Virtual Answer Keys. Each plays a recorded greeting telling the caller the user knows he/she is calling and, depending on programming and how the prompt is recorded, can also give the caller an easy way to dial out to another extension where he/she can gain immediate assistance.
- One-touch access to a number of features
Why enter arcane codes when you can just press VOICE MAIL to get into voice mail? Or CONF to do a conference call? Or TRANSFER to transfer a call? The ESI way is the easy way.
- Dedicated overhead paging interface
- Call statistics
- Detailed reports at the touch of a key.
- SMDR data.
For information on other ESI products, visit the main ESI Web site. Some features not accessible from 12-Key Feature Phone or ESI Cordless Handset. Product specifications and details subject to change without notice. Copyright © 2010 ESI (Estech Systems, Inc.). ESI phone systems are protected by various U.S. Patents, granted and pending.