The details

• Full integration
  With an ESI C-Plus Executive 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.
• ESI desktop phones
  • Two versions: ESI 40 Business Phone and 24-Key Feature Phone.
  • Fully digital 2B+D.
  • Stylish and compact, to fit any workspace.
  • Convenient multi-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 (ESI 40 Business Phone includes backlit display). Provides various combinations of the following, depending upon the system configuration, the ESI desktop 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.
  • Compatibility with not only ESI C-Plus Executive but also the IP Server 900 and ESI Communications Servers — simplifying migration when your business needs a bigger system.
  • High-quality speakerphone 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 legacy ESI C-Plus system supports only the 24-Key Feature Phone and legacy 12-Key Feature Phone (not the ESI 40 Business Phone).

• ESI Digital Cordless Handsets2 provide most features of ESI desktop 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 Executive is recording it. If you want to answer, just lift the handset. Otherwise, the ESI C-Plus Executive 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 Executive 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 Executive 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.