Multi-Tech Turnkey SMS Server Appliance Wins Product of the Year Award from Internet Telephony Magazine

The SMSFinder™ turnkey SMS Server Appliance from Multi-Tech® Systems, Inc., a leading data communications and telecommunications technology company based in suburban Minneapolis, has won a Product of the Year award for 2007 from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Internet Telephony magazine. The SMSFinderturnkey SMS Server Appliance comes in a compact and self-contained chassis that can be desktop or wall mounted. Equipped with a quad-band GSM cellular modem and Ethernet® interface the new Multi-Tech product enables any PC on the connected network to broadcast SMS messages and is carrier-approved for use in most parts of the world.



“We are very proud of this award from one of the most prestigious publications in our industry,” states Mike Kydd, Vice President of Sales for Multi-Tech Systems, Inc. “We believe our new SMSFinder is ideally positioned to capture an emerging market as SMBs implement SMS applications to make their everyday business operations more productive and profitable. We have designed the SMSFinder to be very easy to set-up even without the expertise of a dedicated IT department. With the SMSFinder it is a simple process of connecting to the network, inserting a properly configured SIM card and configuring from a network-connected PC using a Web interface. At that point anyone on the network can broadcast messages. The SMSFinder allows organizations to reach clients, subscribers, members and prospects in real-time via SMS with mobile marketing campaigns, student and faculty weather delays and closings, urgent message confirmation, updates to clients, items of interest including time-critical enterprise data to employees, SMS reminder and alert system updates, plus customer help desk information.”



“Multi-Tech Systems, has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. INTERNET TELEPHONY is pleased to grant a 2007 Product of the Year Award to their SMSFinder turnkey SMS Server Appliance,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. We’re proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Multi-Tech Systems, in the future"



A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February, 2008, issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com). For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

The SMSFinder turnkey SMS Server Appliance comes equipped with an internal GSM modem, one Ethernet LAN interface/connector, antenna, and power supply. After installing the server on an Ethernet network on one end and cellular network using a provisioned SIM on the other end, the unit can be configured from any network-attached PC using a web interface. Recipient names and phone numbers can be entered using a connected PC or incoming call. The address book can contain up to 20,000 entries with support for sorting, searching and group set-ups. Individual user accounts can have selected access rights and broadcast messages can be triggered via SMS using predefined groups and SMS text. The unit supports SMTP client and Syslog for logging and reporting.