Nieuwegein - Avaya, Motorola en Proxim werken samen aan nieuwe draadloze oplossingen die mobiele telefonie, IP-telefonie en WLAN-technologie combineren. Deze gezamenlijk ontwikkelde standaardoplossingen ondersteunen spraak- en datadiensten voor gebruikers van bedrijfsnetwerken, publieke mobiele netwerken en Wi-Fi hotspots. Gebruikers hebben met deze convergente technologieën via één enkel apparaat onbeperkt toegang tot zowel vaste als mobiele bedrijfsnetwerken. Deze manier van werken zal leiden tot kostenbesparingen en efficiencyvoordelen.
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Motorola, Avaya, and Proxim to Collaborate on New Converged Wireless Communications Solutions That Will Enable Businesses to Cut Costs, Boost Productivity
Companies Bring Together Cellular, Wireless LAN and IP Telephony Technologies To Provide Seamless Roaming Between Enterprise and Cellular Networks
Arlington Heights, IL, Basking Ridge, NJ, and Sunnyvale, CA. - Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT), Avaya Inc. (NYSE: AV), and Proxim Corporation (NASD: PROX) today announced they will collaborate on the creation and deployment of converged cellular, Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN), and Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony solutions that will deliver new levels of communications mobility and network connectivity. These solutions will be enabled by an array of new products including a Wi-Fi/cellular dual-system phone from Motorola, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-enabled IP Telephony software from Avaya, and voice enabled WLAN infrastructure from Proxim.
The jointly-developed, standards-based solutions will support contiguous voice and data service to users across enterprise networks, public cellular networks, and public hotspot WLANs based on 802.11 technology (commonly known as Wi-Fi). The convergence of these technologies will enable businesses to gain new cost savings, user efficiencies, and enhanced communications capabilities.
Cost-savings can be achieved through reduced network management expenses, lower usage charges and device consolidation. User efficiencies will result from increased accessibility to the business network and greater mobility through seamless wireless access to business networks, applications, and information within or outside of a work campus. These solutions will also provide enhanced communications capabilities, including on-demand conference calling and speech access to key business applications such as email, calendars and corporate directories.
"Motorola believes that tying together wireless LANs, IP Telephony, and cellular technologies in a single handset will extend the mobility of the cellular networks inside the enterprise, and provide the best available access to the user," said Dan Coombes, senior vice president and general manager for Motorola's Network Systems Group. "Both Avaya and Proxim are industry leaders, and we eagerly anticipate working with them to create integrated networks to provide everywhere-connectivity for our customers."
"Avaya views this collaboration as a significant advancement in mobile workplace communications," said Michael Thurk, group vice president for Avaya's Converged Systems and Applications Group. "Companies are demanding increased business results from their communications networks. This converged solution is a natural extension to the way Avaya serves the enterprise, with innovative MultiVantage capabilities such as Extension-to-Cellular. Together, we will bring unprecedented value to an organization's network by expanding employees' desktops beyond office walls to virtually wherever an employee happens to be working."
"As the only wireless networking company offering integrated, end-to-end connectivity, we are big supporters of convergent solutions such as this," said Angela Champness, senior vice president and general manager of Proxim's LAN Division. "We have already integrated VoIP into our wireless WAN products and this is a logical next step in the development of our WLANs. Businesses will enjoy increased employee productivity and the opportunity for significant cost savings through convergent networks that can scale to their needs."
The converged infrastructure solutions will tap into a new and widening enterprise market that demands key technologies to boost the performance of enterprise communications. The IP Telephony application is enabled by Avaya MultiVantage(tm) Software, which provides reliable and scalable communications. Motorola will create network Mobility Management components that control the hand-off between local (WLAN) and cellular networks; and Proxim will provide voice-enabled Wi-Fi WLAN infrastructure, quality of service software, and centralized management systems to facilitate hand-offs between access points.
"There is a huge opportunity for this converged solution given the strengths of the IP Telephony, WLAN and cellular markets," said Jeremy Duke, President, Synergy Research Group, a market research firm based in Phoenix, Arizona. "These three industry leaders together bring the expertise and the vision required to bring this solution to market."
Voice-enabled Wi-Fi WLAN infrastructure from Proxim and SIP-enabled communications applications from Avaya is expected to be made available early in 2003, establishing a ready base for converged communications. Trials of the joint solution are expected to begin in the second half of 2003.
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2001 were $30 billion. Please visit www.motorola.com/wlan for more information.
About Avaya
Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than one million businesses around the world, including 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500. A world leader in secure and reliable Internet Protocol (IP) telephony systems, communications software applications and services, Avaya is driving the convergence of voice and data applications across IT networks enabling businesses large and small to leverage existing and new networks to enhance value, improve productivity and gain competitive advantage. For more information visit the Avaya website: http://www.avaya.com.
About Proxim
Proxim Corporation is a leading provider of high-performance wireless local area networking (WLAN) and wireless wide area networking (WWAN) products. The company holds leading shares in the fast-growing markets for 802.11b, 802.11a, and license-exempt fixed wireless networking systems. Proxim's systems securely connect networks within buildings, as well as between locations up to 40 miles apart, providing enterprises, service providers, and consumers with unprecedented networking capacity and mobility. Proxim Corporation was created by the merger between Proxim, Inc. and Western Multiplex Corporation in March 2002. Its web site is www.proxim.com.
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Proxim Safe Harbor
This press release includes forward-looking information and statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Statements regarding joint development of products and solutions by and among Motorola, Avaya and Proxim; performance and benefits of solutions, including cost savings, user efficiencies and enhanced communication capabilities; the growth of the market for enterprise communication solutions and the availability of products and solutions are forward-looking statements and are subject to the following risks: that products and solutions will not be developed as anticipated; that products will not perform as designed; that the expected benefits will not be realized by customers; that products will not become available in a timely manner due to design, manufacturing or supply issues; that product pricing will not be competitive; that the market for enterprise communication solutions based on 802.11 technology will not develop as anticipated and other risks and uncertainties associated with Motorola's, Avaya's and Proxim's businesses. [For additional information regarding risks relating to Motorola's business, see Motorola, Inc.'s Forms 10-Q filed on May 14, 2002, on August 13, 2002 and on November 12, 2002 and Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 and subsequent Forms 8-K, and other relevant materials filed by Motorola with the SEC. For additional information regarding risks relating to Avaya's business, see Avaya Inc.'s Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2002 and subsequent Form 8-K, and other relevant materials filed by Avaya with the SEC.] [For additional information regarding risks relating to Proxim's business, see Proxim Corporation's Forms 10-Q filed on November 12, 2002, on August 12, 2002, as amended, and on May 13, 2002, Western Multiplex' Corporation's registration statement on Form S-4 filed on February 25, 2002, Western Multiplex Corporation's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 and subsequent Forms 8-K, Proxim, Inc.'s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 and subsequent Forms 8-K, and other relevant materials filed by Proxim with the SEC. Proxim does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements.]
Avaya Safe Harbor
This press release includes forward-looking information and statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Statements regarding joint development of products and solutions by and among Motorola, Avaya and Proxim; performance and benefits of solutions, including cost savings, user efficiencies and enhanced communication capabilities; the growth of the market for enterprise communication solutions and the availability of products and solutions are forward-looking statements and are subject to the following risks: that products and solutions will not be developed as anticipated; that products will not perform as designed; that the expected benefits will not be realized by customers; that products will not become available in a timely manner due to design, manufacturing or supply issues; that product pricing will not be competitive; that the market for enterprise communication solutions based on 802.11 technology will not develop as anticipated and other risks and uncertainties associated with Motorola's, Avaya's and Proxim's businesses. For a further list and description of such risks and uncertainties, see the reports filed by Avaya with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Avaya disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, new events or otherwise.