Ted Stevenson

If you stop by the Motorola booth at the VoiceCon 2008 show in Orlando this week (Booth 308), you can get a demonstration of the company’s new Total Enterprise Access and Mobility solution or TEAM. This new initiative promises to bring wireless mobile communications to all enterprise employees, not just executives or desk-inhabiting office workers. […]

Siemens Communications is in the process of transforming itself, from a company people associate with hardware—phones, switches, and such—to a software and service company. Yesterday, it made a cluster of product announcements that exemplify that transformation—announcements both strategic and tactical. Starting with the strategic, Siemens revealed the bedrock on top of which the company’s communications […]

Today, DiVitas Networks, developer of the first enterprise-focused network convergence solution, today announced a partnership with mobile phone maker Nokia and global distributor of mobile communications devices Brightpoint. Here’s the gist of the announcement: Nokia will take its Eseries dual-mode mobile smartphones to market directly via Brightpoint—as opposed to going through mobile carriers, the traditional […]

It may surprise you to learn that guest access is one of the most widely deployed application for wireless LANs. According to a report—Wireless LAN, State-of-the-Market—published by Kubernan in June of this year, guest access is third (64 percent of survey respondents), after e-mail (82 percent) and primary staff Internet and intranet connectivity (80 percent). […]

Motorola, Inc. today announced the expansion of it’s dual-radio Wi-Fi mesh networking offering with two new versions. The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company has also renamed the product line—formerly known as HotZone Duo—MOTOMESH Duo. The original Duo unit, released a bit more than a year ago (in June of 2006), provided one radio running in the 2.4GHz […]

If you haven’t heard of Varaha Sytems, don’t worry, it’s not you. The Dallas-based company is just emerging from the shadows of pre-launch product development, a state it’s been in since 2003. Today, the company announced the availability of its uMobility line of software products that meld the cost and functionality benefits of enterprise IP […]

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Aruba Networks this week announced certification of its infrastructure line for operation with SpectraLink phones from Polycom. (Note: Phone vendor Polycom’s acquisition of Wi-Fi phone systems leader SpectraLink Corp. closed just a month ago.) The combination of SpectraLink phones and Aruba Wi-Fi access points (APs) and centralized network controllers gives potential customers a […]

If you’re the proud possessor of a Wi-Fi-capable smartphone based on the Nokia S60 operating system platform (primarily the Nseries models), you’re in luck. Santa Monica, Calif.-based WiFiMobile has just launched a new voice over IP service that will let you talk for free to fellow members—anywhere in the world—whenever you’re connected to a Wi-Fi […]

If you’re a regular reader of Enterprise VoIPPlanet.com, you’ve probably noticed our occasional F/MC Watch reports, which chronicle new technologies for integrating cellular telephony with voice over IP. If so, ‘M/MC Watch’ might have you scratching your head. Well, there’s nothing like being different—or at least looking or sounding different—for getting a little attention. That’s […]

Last month, we reported on BridgePort Networks’ announcement about its readiness to bring its MobileSTICK fixed/mobile convergence solution to market. What we left untold in that story was the tectonic shift in relations between mobile carriers and Internet business entities—such as Yahoo and Google—that the little gizmo brings about. To recap, MobileSTICK consists of a […]

At its Cisco Partner Summit 2007 in Las Vegas yesterday, Cisco Systems announced “the next major evolution of its small and medium-sized business strategy.” The multipart solution—dubbed Smart Business Communications System—aims to “maximize business efficiency and improve customer and employee collaboration,” according to the company. CEO John Chambers put the move into historical perspective: “Three […]

It’s taken a year—a long time in the tech world. Last February (2006), at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, BridgePort Networks and its two partners, Oberthur Card Systems and softphone vendor CounterPath Solutions, demonstrated a system for mobilizing voice over IP, using a SIM card, a softphone, and other software on a portable USB flash […]