Nokia Tuesday unveiled major
components of its global IP mobility strategy, aimed at providing
communications through wireless access.
The company’s new Internet Protocol (IP) solutions are designed to enable
broadband wireless access to
services such as e-mail, corporate information and the Internet. The
solution extend corporate LANs to common areas such as meeting rooms and
offer in-building
public wireless locations such as airport lounges, providing wireless
portable computer connectivity.
“Workers spend a significant amount of time away from their desks — even
when they are in the office —
and still need to remain productive,” said Chris Nicoll, director of
infrastructure analysis. “Nokia offers a network solution to solve this
common business
problem.”
Nokia said the solutions have been developed to save businesses time and
money by keeping employees
productive while they are away from their desks, and also by reducing IT
costs related to providing
multi-user connectivity to common areas such as meeting rooms.
The company also said that Internet service providers can save time
and costs by offering differentiation through offering mobility solutions.
ISPs can provide both
wired and wireless high value IP based services, including wireless
connectivity, IP security, and IP
telephony. These services can be
provided to mobile professionals both within corporate locations as well as
other areas.
The IP solutions incorporate Nokia’s mobility technology in
wireless access points, wireless access PC cards, simplified user
and administration environments. Also included in the solutions technology are
integrated firewall-VPN solutions, authentication, encryption,
IP telephony solutions, such as advanced call control and processing,
client solutions,
residential to carrier PSTN Gateways, IP telephones and
high speed access solutions, such as DSL infrastructure and CPE technology.
Nokia’s global IP Mobility solutions will be demonstrated at the
Networld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas this week and are slated for
commercial availability in June.
“This represents a significant step toward enabling the data communications
market to move toward a
wireless information society,” said Pekka Lundmark, senior vice president
of Nokia Wireless Business
Communications.
“Enabling the mobility of IP services via secure,
broadband, wireless connectivity will
change the traditional data networking playing field, similar to the way
cellular has changed the wide area
communications market.”