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Mobile & Wireless
VON Fall 2006: Blurring the Traditional PBX Phone
Sylantro Ap Servers Push Seamless Wireline-Wireless Connectivity
by Jim Barthold
As yet another indicator of the blurring lines between the
enterprise wireline and wireless spaces – including business
and personal communications -- Sylantro Systems has
upgraded its Synergy software platform so carriers and
network equipment vendors can fully integrate mobile
handsets into business VoIP virtual PBX systems.
In an unrelated move, Sylantro further revealed it is working
on seamless mobile-Wi-Fi connection software that will be
introduced by the end of the year for incorporation into dual-
mode handsets.
In each instance, Sylantro is pushing the two sides –
conventional wireline VoIP and mobile – together, starting
with putting all PBX functionality and features onto wireless
handsets.
This, said Ron Raffensperger, senior vice president of
marketing, is the “fully productized version of our IMS
interface.”
Besides facilitating business calls on the mobile phone, it
allows the consumer to keep the personal aspects of the
mobile device -- receiving calls and voice mail and blocking
business calls -- independent. The features can be turned off
when the consumer is no longer in the enterprise
environment, he added.
“You can keep the two parts of your life separate without
having to have separate handsets,” Raffensperger said.
Nokia has lined up as the first vendor to develop a modified
handset for business communications services, he said.
The mobile Wi-Fi convergence is a little farther out but can be
achieved “without having to put equipment in … this is all done
in software,” Raffensperger said.
The seamless mobility occurs in the handset that has either
been configured with Sylantro software or into which software
has been downloaded. The unit searches for and connects to
the Wi-Fi signal while maintaining the mobile call so that a
user can do a complete fixed-mobile handoff and not lose the call, said Raffensperger.
The FMC play, he said, “doesn’t require the cooperation of
the wireless carriers” since the client is loaded into the
handset.
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