Cisco and DiVitas Networks focus on mobility solutions

Convergence & VoIP This newsletter is sponsored by ShoreTel eBook: IP Telephony from A to Z Get the book on VoIP, from vendor evaluation and selection to ensuring reliability and security. Whether you're considering a rollout or you've already deployed, you'll quickly get up to speed on the most important IP telephony issues and factors. Network World's Convergence & VoIP Newsletter, 05/30/07 Cisco and DiVitas Networks focus on mobility solutions By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick Last time we began reporting on product developments timed to coincide with Interop 2007, today we highlight separate announcements focused on fixed mobile convergence and enterprise mobility from Cisco and DiVitas Networks. Cisco announced a broad range of enhancements to its mobility solutions, including the Cisco Unified Wireless Network; Mobile Solutions for Unified Communications; Cisco Business on the Go Solutions; and Cisco Process Monitoring and Optimization Solutions. The enhancements include upgrades to provide better asset tracking, voice over WLAN improvements, and a targeted mobility package for the oil and gas industry. Although these aren’t a big deal as individual products or upgrades, they do point to the fact that Cisco wants to keep pace with advances in the mobility market. DiVitas Networks had two announcements for Interop. First, the company announced the worldwide availability of its “mobile-to-mobile convergence (MMC) solution” for the Nokia Eseries. The MMC architecture runs on a “Mobile Convergence Appliance” sitting inside the enterprise network which works with client software running on the MMC-compatible handset. Mobile features supported include voice, presence, IM, e-mail, and PBX desk phone functions, according to the company’s statement, allowing users to roam “seamlessly, back and forth, between disparate Wi-Fi and cellular networks.” In their second announcement, DiVitas said they have also extended their MMC solution to include integration with Microsoft’s Office Live Communications Server 2005 & Office Communications Server 2007. Executive Guide - VoIP: No Turning Back Discover how real-work enterprises are deploying VoIP via several case studies Click here for more information. Our analysis: we’re still waiting to see fixed mobile convergence applications become as indispensable as e-mail or the phone to a business, but as we predicted in our January market outlook, “Fixed-mobile convergence will benefit from the 2005-2006 build out of mobile data networks and we will see actual services targeting enterprise vertical markets emerge in 2007.”   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: 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, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at 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 lhettick@currentanalysis.com This newsletter is sponsored by ShoreTel eBook: IP Telephony from A to Z Get the book on VoIP, from vendor evaluation and selection to ensuring reliability and security. Whether you're considering a rollout or you've already deployed, you'll quickly get up to speed on the most important IP telephony issues and factors. ARCHIVE Archive of the Convergence & VoIP Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007