BellSouth trial integrates WLAN voice and cellular voice

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON
CONVERGENCE
06/15/05
Today's focus: BellSouth trial integrates WLAN voice and
cellular voice

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* BellSouth begins wireless voice trial
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Today's focus: BellSouth trial integrates WLAN voice and
cellular voice

By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Last week at Supercomm, BellSouth announced the market trial of
a service that integrates voice communications over an IEEE
802.11 wireless campus network and the Cingular mobile wireless
network.

Grey Worldwide's Atlanta office employees will carry a single
handset that operates on the cellular network outside the office
and the wireless LAN, or Wi-Fi, on the corporate campus. While
employees are working at their desks, the wireless handset will
rest in a charging cradle that integrates directly with the
business features housed in the company's VoIP phone system.

Grey Worldwide is one of the world's top 10 advertising
agencies. "The service is the perfect fit for an active and
client-focused business such as ours," said Grey's Chris Rich,
executive vice president of account management, in a statement.

In another statement, BellSouth said that "the seamless mobility
trial is part of extensive ongoing wireless/wireline integration
initiatives between BellSouth and Cingular. The joint work
includes research and product development, sales initiatives and
bundled offers with both traditional services and innovative
solutions such as seamless mobility."

When we asked BellSouth for further details, the company told us
the Motorola handset works on the campus with the premises-based
PBX, offering a full range of PBX features - but if the trial
proves out, the long-term goal would be to offer network-based
features as well as a premises-based alternative.

There are network-based security features, and each handset also
undergoes MAC-layer authentication to assure that only
authorized users can use the campus network for voice access.
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To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates
and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed
information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter,
connect to Webtorials <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the premier
site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and
market research. Taylor can be reached at
<mailto:taylor@webtorials.com>

Larry Hettick an industry veteran with over 20 years of
experience in voice and data. He is currently Vice President
for Wireline Solutions at Current Analysis, the leading
competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at
<mailto:larry@larryhettick.com>
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Deployments." For a road map to help ensure the success of your
VoIP project, please visit the link below to download your copy
today.
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