When will dual-mode voice gain traction?

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06/27/05
Today's focus: When will dual-mode voice gain traction?

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Today's focus: When will dual-mode voice gain traction?

By Joanie Wexler

The success of voice over Wi-Fi (now officially called "Vo-Fi")
depends on a number of factors, both technical and
business-oriented. Somewhere very near the top of the list are
the need for dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi phones (with decent
battery life) and integrated services from carriers.

For example, who's really willing to juggle multiple phones - a
cellular phone and a Wi-Fi phone, for example - for use
depending on whether you are at home, at the office, or on Route
80? Business users getting comfy with mobility will quickly
begin to pine for a single device that they can carry around for
all their voice, messaging, calendaring and contact
applications.

Without integration, the number of gadgets to keep track of
could quickly pile up, depending on the role you are playing and
your location. Each would likely contain overlapping contact and
calendaring information but in different formats, driving the
user to distraction.

The good news is that there is evidence that dual-mode
Wi-Fi/cellular phones are en route.

Motorola says its CN620, its long-in-development dual-mode
802.11a VoIP/GSM handset, is imminent and should not be held up
by development partner Proxim's recent Chapter 11 filing. The
CN620 will be distributed by its third development partner,
Avaya.

And Nokia said earlier this month that it would license Cisco
technology to integrate dual-mode Nokia Series 60 handsets with
Cisco's CallManager IP PBX over Wi-Fi. Nokia, in a press
release, said it intends to begin "to extend the highly valuable
services of the PBX to Nokia mobile devices as well as enable
use of enterprises' private infrastructure for part of mobile
voice traffic."

This is a very interesting and telling statement. Typically,
there have been at least two phone networks: the one you use at
work, with all its custom, rich features and the public network,
which works differently (and, possibly a third: softphone
client-plus-Internet). At least two voicemail systems to check,
two sets of features to learn and use. Blending Wi-Fi and
cellular connections with enterprise PBX calling features in a
VoIP handset is approaching telephony nirvana.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

Voice over Wi-Fi on the way
IDG News Service, 06/15/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061505-wifi.html?rl

Voice over Wi-Fi needs cellular component, speakers say
NetworkWorld.com, 03/08/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0308vwlan.html?rl

They welcome wireless spam?
Network World, 06/27/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nlwir2820
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To contact: Joanie Wexler

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology
writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most
of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer
networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles
published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future
article topics. Reach her at <mailto:joanie@jwexler.com>.
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