atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums TDM Business Telephone Systems Inter-Tel Telephones & Systems AXXESS DISCONTINUED ?????????

I have heard rumors. Anything concrete?

Havent heard any such thing. The Axxess serves the medium to large business market and there isnt anything in the works to replace it. In fact there are several major enhancements in the works for release in 07'

I haven't heard anything either.

What are the rumored enhancements for the Axxess in 2k7?

Also the 7000 can grow to 2500 ports- 2.5x the size of an ATM Axxess.

They may discontinue it in...oh...maybe the next 10 years or so...

What changes does Mr. Mihaylo want to make? Well, his January 19th letter outlined nine major changes:


Consider reducing the size of Inter-Tel's Board from 11 to 10 members, with the Board consisting of (a) the Chief Executive Officer, (b) Dr. Puri, Mr. Urish and me, (c) three other existing outside members of the Board, and (d) three new independent directors mutually acceptable to the Board and me.

Alternatively, in order to save costs and facilitate the scheduling of Board meetings, I would be amenable to a 7 member Board, consisting of (a) the Chief Executive Officer, (b) Dr. Puri, Mr. Urish and me, and (c) three new independent directors mutually acceptable to the Board and me.

Retain a financial advisor to advise the Board on the feasibility and financial impact of a Dutch-auction self tender offer to repurchase between $200 million and $250 million of the Company's common stock.

Disband the Special Committee, thereby eliminating all of the costs associated therewith.
Direct management to (a) undertake an intensive cost-benefit analysis of

(i) discontinuing product development on the Axxess

and (ii) redirecting the engineering effort to "gateway" products and "hosted services" offerings, including the necessary billing platform for hosted services, and (

b) report the results of that analysis to the Board. I believe these actions will produce significant cost savings and provide significant sales opportunities.

Consolidate the Company's multiple engineering facilities into the Chandler location. This will reduce overhead and improve productivity, while encouraging new and better ways to speed up product development.

Explore the sale of the Company's Irish subsidiary, unless its performance significantly improves within a set period of time. This would enable management to concentrate on more profitable opportunities, as well as raise additional cash to offset the costs of the self tender offer.

Explore ways to better utilize the Company’s 15 acre campus in Reno.

Undertake an evaluation of the recommendations in the consulting report that the Mihaylo/Vector Group provided to Inter-Tel as a result of the Settlement Agreement executed in May 2006.
Defer implementation of the proposed by-law amendments until the foregoing issues are actively considered.

I just spoke to our Intertel rep and to a few Intertel people and they say that the Axxess line is not being discontinued yet, of course some day it probably will. Intertel is currently working on integrating it with the 7000 system via a SIP networking module and they are also releasing software that will bump the node capacity to 99.

how many nodes can the Axxess network now?

63...20,000 devices. I heard two years ago that 10.x was the end of the line for Axxess....

I don't see this happening quite yet. The only other traditional switch they would have to offer would be the Encore CX, which can't possibly replace the Axxes. IP is growing, but it just isn't time yet to be all IP.

99 nodes!!!! That's a big system!