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Galaxy Mini V2 – Overview
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Galaxy Mini Version 2 replaces the Galaxy Mini. The original Galaxy Mini is now discontinued.

Overview

Galaxy Mini Version 2 offers significant enhancements, including double the processing power, memory, and storage capacity. It features built-in support for 8 analog station ports and supports up to 96 extensions.

The base package for the Galaxy Mini Version 2 is loaded with UCX7.0 software and includes 32 extensions, with optional expansions to 64 and 96 extensions, providing greater flexibility to meet your business needs.

Features

Running the same UCX software as other E-MetroTel server platforms such as the Galaxy Pro and Galaxy Expand, it delivers an optimized set of UCX capabilities to the small and very small business market, including feature functionality normally associated with enterprise businesses such as:

  • Auto-Attendant (IVR) answers incoming lines with your personalized greeting tailored for the time of day, day of week, holiday schedule and calling line ID. Custom Call Routing routes incoming calls via a routing tree that determines how calls are directed (“For customer service, press 1…”). Can include multiple levels. Caller can self-direct to exactly the right destination.
  • Integrated Voicemail stores, forwards and delivers voice messages to the user, to groups, or for broadcast to all users. Users can record their own personalized greetings and have access to their messages from anywhere. And mailbox space is virtually unlimited.
  • Voice Mail to Email delivers voice mail via email messages to your computer and mobile device so you can manage all your communications in one location.
  • Fax Detection / Virtual Fax – there is no need to have a traditional fax machine as faxes can be both sent and received electronically using this feature. You can also configure your inbound route to auto-detect a fax connection.
  • Meet-Me Conferencing Easy-to-use functionality allows parties to establish a teleconference by calling in to a specified telephone number and extension. Meet-Meet Conferencing includes a full set of user controls that enable the meeting chair to start, stop, and control the conference. This makes it ideal for larger conferences, especially those involving outside suppliers or customers.
  • Shared Call Appearances (SCA) allow calls to ring on multiple sets, be placed on hold, and be picked up at any other set with that same Shared Call Appearance 
  • Dozens of other telephony features:
    • Transfer, Call Hold, Call Forward, Cellphone Twinning, Last Number Redial, Paging (see note below), Call Pickup, Autodial – External & Internal, Do Not Disturb, Hotdesking, and many more.

These features are described and are accompanied by explanations of how to configure and assign them in the UCX Features documentation.  For example, you can click on this link to review information on the Voicemail to Email functionality.

Applications

The UCX software on other hardware platforms supports a number of applications that are that are separately licensed and are primarily designed and suitable for large enterprise customers. One exception to this is the use of Microsoft TAPI, which enables Microsoft Windows PCs to be able to communicate with the UCX software and initiate outbound calls and hang up calls using Microsoft Outlooks, Microsoft Dialer, or any other TAPI compatible applications. It also supports receiving inbound calls with basic caller information on incoming calls so that some TAPI aware applications can use this information to do screen-popup, displaying caller information on the screen. Since this functionality is widely used in small businesses such as law offices and medical clinics, this licensed functionality is available on the Galaxy Mini platform.

A full description of the functionality and how to configure it in the UCX software can be found in the TAPI Application document.

Because the Galaxy Mini’s overall functionality has been optimized to deliver the highest value functionality on a cost effective platform for small businesses, some of the standard UCX software features are not available.  The following features are not supported:

  • Call Recording
  • InfinityOne
  • Queues/Agents/Supervisors
  • Other licensed UCX applications (Call Center Reporting, Enhanced Archive, External CDR Interface, Hospitality, Microsoft Lync, Notifier, Scheduled Announcement, High Availability Replicated Configuration, Wallboard)

Also note that the maximum number of extensions in a Page Group on the Galaxy Mini is 16.

Supported Phones and Devices

The E-MetroTel Galaxy Mini V2 platform is an all-in-one telephony platform that comes with an integrated 8 port FXS Gateway Card that can support up to 8 analog stations.

Because the Galaxy Mini runs standard E-MetroTel UCX software, it is capable of supporting the full breadth of telephony devices as other E-MetroTel hardware models.

On the base package, up to 32 telephony devices that require Standard licenses like the E-MetroTel Infinity 5000 series IP (XSTIM) phones and legacy Nortel/Avaya/Panasonic digital phones – do not require additional licenses in order for them to be used.

The number of supported devices can be expanded to 64 or 96.

Other telephony devices such as SIP phones and Nortel/Avaya IP (Unistim) phones can be configured, but will require additional Universal Extensions licenses.

For a full list of supported phone and devices, refer to UCX Supported Phones and Devices page.

NOTE

The addition of one or more Universal Extension License(s) does not extend the number of supported telephony devices on the Galaxy Mini V2 beyond its licensed station capacity (32, 64 or 96). It simply allows one or more (up to the number of licenses installed) non-Standard IP sets (e.g. Nortel/Avaya Unistim or 3rd Party SIP) to be used and counted against the licensed station limit.

Order Code

The base Galaxy Mini V2 system can operate as a pure IP Telephony platform with IP telephones and SIP trunks.

The ordering codes for the Galaxy Mini:

CodeDescription
HBGLXN-MINIGalaxy Mini base system 0x32
SXEXPN-MINIBlock of 32 Standard extensions. Can add 1 or 2 expansions to reach 64 or 96 Standard extensions
SATSPN-0TAPI Service Provider application add-on
SASANN-0Scheduled Announcements application add-on

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