Avaya Unveils New Wireless IP Telephony Products For Converged Mobility Throughout - and Beyond

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: July 27, 2004 6:18:06 PM PDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Avaya Unveils New Wireless IP Telephony Products 
For Converged Mobility Throughout - and Beyond
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[Note:  This item comes from reader Monty Solomon.  DLH]

> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
> Date: July 27, 2004 10:33:31 AM PDT
> Subject: Avaya Unveils New Wireless IP Telephony Products For 
> Converged Mobility Throughout - and Beyond - an Enterprise
>
>      Avaya Unveils New Wireless IP Telephony Products For Converged
>      Mobility Throughout - and Beyond - an Enterprise
>      - Jul 27, 2004 10:52 AM (PR Newswire)
>
> * New Voice-over-Wireless Gateway and Access Points Are Key Components 
> of
> Converged Mobility Solution Delivering Seamless Communications Across 
> Private
> WLANs and Public Cellular Networks
>
> * New Avaya Converged Mobility Products Drive Increased Security, 
> Reliability
>            and Voice Quality in Enterprise Wireless Communications
>
>
> BASKING RIDGE, N.J., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avaya 
> (NYSE:AV), a
> leading global provider of business communications software, systems 
> and
> services, today unveiled new converged mobility products that help 
> extend the
> key advantages of office communications to employees traveling 
> throughout -
> and beyond - an enterprise. These products play a critical role in the
> converged Wi-Fi and cellular solution architecture Avaya is developing 
> with
> Motorola and Proxim.  Avaya's new products seamlessly extend IP 
> telephony - a
> software-based technology that uses voice over Internet protocol 
> (VoIP) to
> transmit voice over a data network - to wireless networks. The new 
> products
> are designed to improve the delivery of IP applications and voice
> communications for a mobile workforce, driving enhanced productivity, 
> new cost
> efficiencies and greater security in enterprise wireless 
> communications.
>
>
> The new products -- the Avaya W310 WLAN Gateway and Avaya W110 WLAN 
> Access
> Points -- incorporate co-developed technologies from Avaya and Proxim. 
> The
> gateway and access points, along with Avaya's award-winning IP 
> telephony
> software, Communication Manager, deliver a voice over wireless LAN 
> (VoWLAN)
> solution that will support the Motorola CN620, a new dual-network 
> Mobile
> Office Device announced today by Motorola.  Avaya has been 
> collaborating with
> Motorola and Proxim on the creation of an enterprise seamless mobility
> solution, which supports continuous communications to users across 
> business
> wireless networks and public cellular networks.
>
>
> This enterprise seamless mobility solution helps organizations boost
> productivity by enabling employees to use the Motorola dual-network 
> device to
> conduct wireless conversations that will not fade or drop as they move 
> to
> various locations throughout a work campus, as well as away from their 
> office
> building. Users of the enterprise mobility solution will also have 
> seamless
> access to advanced IP capabilities, such as listening to e-mail, 
> accessing
> corporate directories and overseeing multi-party teleconferences, as 
> they move
> across a WLAN and onto public cellular networks.
>
>
> Seamless mobility can also drive greater cost-efficiency for 
> enterprises
> through device consolidation and centralized management of an 
> organization's
> WLAN infrastructure. For example, highly mobile employees who switch 
> between
> office phones, cell phones or other devices for communications can now 
> use one
> Motorola dual-network device to make VoIP-based calls as they travel 
> within an
> enterprise or to an outside destination. The Avaya W310 Wireless LAN 
> Gateway
> and W110 Access Points also let information technology (IT) 
> administrators
> centrally manage and monitor an enterprise's wireless networking 
> capabilities
> from one location, resulting in lower labor and administration costs.
>
> ....
>
>      - <http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=42721747>


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