voice processor comparison chart

(NOTE: on this site, "voice processing system," "voice processor," and "VPS" mean the same thing.)

A Panasonic voice processing system can record voice mail messages for all of your staff or family, and provide automated attendant, bulletin board and other services. It can even call other phone numbers and activate beepers when messages have been recorded. The newest KX-TVA models can even forward voice mail messages as email attachments, to any computer.

The number of ports is usually the most important specification of a voice processor. It indicates the number of simultaneous conversations that can be handled: callers from the outside, as well as people within your business or home who are checking or leaving messages.

• If you want your system to provide automated attendant service as well as voice mail, you probably will need more ports than if it provides voice mail only.
• If you want a "full-time" auto attendant that answers all calls immediately, you will need more ports than if the auto attendant is a "back-up," and most calls are answered by people.
• If you want your voice processor to detect incoming faxes, or to deliver messages to outside phones, those features require ports to be available, too.
• When someone is changing a recording in a menu, greeting, announcement or mailbox, a port will be in use.
• If you are using a phone to make a program change in the voice processor, such as changing the name on a mailbox, a port will be in use.
• You will probably use voice processing more than you expect, so pick a system that has growth capacity. We don't know of anyone who regretted getting a bigger system than they thought they needed, but many people have regretted buying a system that was too small.

Model	number of ports	number of mailboxes	recording time
KX-TVA50	2 to 6	64	4 or 8 hours
KX-TVS50 (discontinued)	2	32	2 or 4 hours
KX-TVS75 (discontinued)	2	64	6 hours
KX-TVS80 (discontinued)	2	64	6 hours
KX-TVS90 (discontinued)	2	64	6 hours
KX-TVS95 (discontinued)	2	64	6 hours
KX-TVS100 (discontinued)	2 or 4	64	18 hours
KX-TVS110 (discontinued)	2 or 4	64	18 hours
KX-TVS120 (discontinued)	4 or 6 (KX-TD & KX-TA1232) 4 (KX-TAW848)	64	32 hours
KX-TVS125 (discontinued)	4 or 6 (KX-TD & KX-TA1232) 4 (KX-TAW848)	64	32 hours
KX-TVA200	4 to 24	1024	1000 hours
KX-TVS200 (discontinued)	4 or 8 or 12 (KX-TD & KX-TA1232) 2, 4, or 6 (KX-T123211D)	1024	32 hours
KX-TVS220 (discontinued)	4 or 8 or 12 (KX-TD & KX-TA1232)	1024	64 hours
KX-TVS225	4 or 8 or 12 (KX-TD & KX-TA1232)	1024	64 hours
KX-TVS300 (discontinued)	4, 8, 16, or 24 (KX-TD)	1024	64  hours
KX-TVS320 (discontinued)	4, 8, 16, or 24 (KX-TD)	1024	128 hours
KX-TVS325 (discontinued)	4, 8, 16 or 24 (KX-TD)	1024	128 hours