See voice over Wi-Fi.
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- Wireless LAN Foundations
- View Available Dates and LocationsLearn how to design, secure, and support wireless networks through detailed course discussion and a broad range of hands-on configuration and testing exercises. Learn in-depth security principles and troubleshooting techniques. Gain a full understanding of how radio frequency affects networking so you can...
- Training 2008-01-01
- Voice-Over-WLAN in Retail: The Power of Converged Solutions
- Retail associates are on the move all shift long throughout the retail store. VoWLAN-based solutions can empower these highly mobile workers by providing the real-time voice and data capabilities required to streamline business processes to improve overall effectiveness, achieve a new level of responsiveness and deliver an unprecedented level of...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Weigh the applications, costs, and benefits of deploying a Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) in your company
- The deployment of a Voice over Wireless LAN VoWLAN can provide substantial benefits to companies, but every company should complete a financial study to adequately determine the benefits and costs of deploying and supporting the VoWLAN system before embarking on this step. In this sample chapter from Deploying Voice over...
- Book chapters 2007-05-03
- Overcoming VoWLAN Challenges
- Early, enthusiastic predictions about the success of Voice over WLAN VoWLAN have fallen wide of the mark. A few vertical industries are putting the technology to work, but it's made little or no impression on the enterprise and consumer segments. The situation is in flux, however. A number of vendors...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- How Cisco Mobility Solutions Can Reduce Costs and Improve Productivity for Today's Enterprises
- This paper presents a model enterprise deployment to illustrate how dual-mode mobility solutions based on Voice over Wireless LAN VoWLAN can reduce costs and increase productivity. The Total Cost of Ownership TCO model used in this paper is based on a large division of a multinational Fortune 500 company with...
- White papers 2006-07-10
- Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) - A Wireless Voice Alternative?
- Voice over WLAN VoWLAN is a natural evolution of VoIP. It is also a potential supplement or a potential competitor to 3G mobile systems. This paper presents an overview of WLAN technologies and the issues that are relevant for voice communication over WLAN. The basic IEEE 802.11 mechanisms are described,...
- White papers 2006-05-03
- Cell carriers, ignore CellVoWLAN at your peril
- That sage advice is implied in a new InfoTech report entitled "Dual-Mode Cellular/VoWLAN Solutions: Enterprise Preferences and Plans."Vo, of course, stands for voice, WLAN for Wireless Local Area Network, and that is a cell phone on your hip, right?"Deliberate or not, we have a number of activities working together...
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- Capacity Improvement and Analysis for Voice/Data Traffic Over WLAN
- Voice over Wireless Local Area Network VoWLAN is an emerging application taking advantage of the promising Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP technology and the wide deployment of WLANs all over the world. The real-time nature of voice traffic determines that controlled access rather than random access should be adopted. Further,...
- White papers 2006-01-12
- $54.7 mln of WiFi+VOIP handsets sold in 2004
- Worldwide WiFi VoIP handset revenue totaled $54.7 mln in 2004 and units totaled 143,000, and strong growth is expected at least through 2009 as steady adoption of voice over WiFi continues, according to Infonetics Research.Worldwide dual-mode WiFi/cellular handset revenue hit $6.7 mln in 2004. WiFi capability will eventually become a...
- Blog posts 2005-07-21
- "Uma-Oprah?" No, "UMA-VoWLAN"
- "Uma-Oprah?" No, "UMA-VoWLAN"why do we need VoWLAN?Besides the acute shortage of new acronyms, why do we need it? Cell phone coverage is good, and if you really want to access your home PC from the sticks you're better off with a laptop and a GPRS or CDMA modem.Does it...
- Discussion threads 2005-06-22
- "Uma-Oprah?" No, "UMA-VoWLAN"
- Anyone remember that groaner joke David Letterman kept repeating when he hosted the Academy Awards a few years ago? "Uma-Oprah." "Oprah-Uma."But I am not here to talk about Uma Thurman and Oprah Winfrey, but about UMA Unlicensed Mobile Access technology, vs. wireless VoIP.Today, British-based mobile phone news and product site...
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- 84.6% of phone users are interested in combined VoWLAN/cellular phone
- 84.6% of respondents to an In-Stat survey were at least somewhat interested in the prospect of using a VoWLAN/Cellular phone, and exactly 50% of these respondents were very interested or extremely interested in the prospects of such a phone.
- Blog posts 2005-06-05
- Preparing the WLAN for Voice
- Combining voice with wireless data networking introduces some challenges due to the network requirements imposed by voice communications. Voice is a real-time application that requires low latency and reliable delivery as it travels through the network. In converged voice and data networks, Quality of Service QoS mechanisms are imperative to...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Performance Issues of Voice Over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) and Comparing It With Wired LAN
- WLAN provides excellent opportunity to enable voice, since it combines the cost Effectiveness of VoIP solutions with cordless mobility. VoWLAN deployment have special needs in order to be effective. VoWLAN requires a strong uplink to reduce jitter and latency. It requires complete coverage and seamless mobility that allows strong security,...
- White papers 2005-02-22
- Test Suite Stuff
- Hotel suites can be sexy. Test suites seldom are.For me, theyflash my mind on oscilloscopes. Hey, don't look at me. I barely passed high school algebra.Still, I have to recognize the importance of test suites that measure the performance of what happens when two taking-the-world-by-storm technologies are combined. Azimuth Systems...
- Blog posts 2004-11-29
- Providing Professional Quality VoWLAN Using DECT
- This paper presents a novel approach for providing professional quality telephony over WLANs. The approach is to merge the upper layers of the DECT protocol stack with the WLAN physical layer and MAC layer technology, using a protocol adaptation layer PAL. This allows retaining many of the professional quality features...
- White papers 2004-11-15
- Handsets To Be Key VoWLAN Driver
- In a new study entitled User Plans for Wireless LANs, Infonetics Research maintains that mobile VoIP solutions will be a key driver for enterprise-level Wi-Fi applications development. Right now, mobile VoIP is a niche application. Of the 240 corporate, small businessand organizational respondents to the Infonetics study, only 8 percent...
- Blog posts 2004-11-03
- Taiwan LAN manufacturing revenues up 27.1% in Q1 2004
- Taiwan's robust wireless LAN WLAN industry generated a revenue of about $385 mln in Q1 2004, up by 27.1% YTY, according to the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center IEKC of the Industrial Technology Research Institute ITRI. The sector accounted for 21.3% of Taiwan's total contribution of approximately $1.8 bln to...
- Blog posts 2004-09-25
- Enabling High Quality Mobile Voice and Data Communications for W Seoul-Walkerhill
- The W Seoul-Walkerhil is Asia's first W Hotel. W Seoul-Walkerhil needed to enable mobile voice and data communications to support delivery of the highest quality of service to guests and enhance employee productivity and responsiveness. W Seoul-Walkerhil implemented a voice over WLAN VoWLAN IP telephony solution from Nortel Networks, a...
- Case studies
- Nortel Networks Case Study: W Seoul-Walkerhill
- Located on the slopes of Mount Acha, Starwood Hotels and Resorts' futuristic 14-floor, 253 deluxe room, W Seoul-Walkerhill is the first W Hotel in Asia. The hotel wanted to enable mobile voice and data communications to support delivery of the highest quality of service to guests and enhance employee productivity...
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