Sprint and Avaya team up to offer enterprise wireline and wireless services

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON
CONVERGENCE
10/17/05
Today's focus: Sprint and Avaya team up to offer enterprise
wireline and wireless services

Dear networking.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* Sprint and Avaya's joint agreement
* Links related to Convergence
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Today's focus: Sprint and Avaya team up to offer enterprise
wireline and wireless services

By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick

Sprint and Avaya recently announced a joint agreement for the
development and delivery of hosted VoIP telephony wireline and
wireless services for business customers in North America. The
two companies are joining forces to deliver corporate function
integration, hosted IP telephony, and wireless telephony and
messaging. Future arrangements will provide for hosted contact
centers and customer premises equipment resale, along with
Sprint Hosted Messaging, a managed messaging platform that is
expected to integrate with and eventually replace legacy
voicemail systems.

According to Kim Ganote, Sprint's director for VoIP and Wireline
Integration and Product Development, Sprint's vision includes
fixed and mobile network convergence, wireless integration of
communications from the desktop to wireless PCS devices, and
mobile enablement to extend applications anywhere to any device.

Wireless services will initially use Sprint's PCS network,
although Sprint plans to take advantage of its in-progress
wireless broadband upgrades to offer application services.
Sprint's strategy includes using an all IP network that fully
supports all voice and data products, and using IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) to offer session control initially for the
wireless network and, according to the company it "will want to
leverage what IMS brings in wireless services to wireline
services."

We find three factors about the joint announcement newsworthy.
First, although most readers would recognize Sprint for its
focus on wireless services, Sprint is actively pursuing a
wireline service portfolio. Second, Sprint is positioning VoIP
as a step along the way to offer integrated applications that
address business functions and not just network services. And
third, its convergence vision of a fixed/mobile integration is
backed by concrete product offerings like VoIP and hosted
contact center applications actually delivered seamlessly over
both wireline and mobile (PCS and 3G) wireless infrastructures.

Next time: GoRemote and Skype form a partnership

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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 is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of
experience in voice and data. He is Vice President for Telecom
Services and Infrastructure at Current Analysis, the leading
competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at
<mailto:lhettick@currentanalysis.com>
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