Mike Temporale
05-31-2004, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,93501,00.html?f=x68' target='_blank'>http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,93501,00.html?f=x68</a><br /><br /></div>"Motorola Inc. and Proxim Corp. later this year plan to introduce what they have dubbed the "enterprise phone," which can easily switch voice phone calls from a wireless LAN to a wide-area cellular network, according to Stephen Durney, solutions director for Avaya in Basking Ridge, N.J. But companies planning to take advantage of the dual-mode phone will need to install relatively new WLAN technology based on the 802.11a standard, according to Scott Ruck, business development manager at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Proxim. The dual phone won't work with the more commonly deployed wireless networks that use the 802.11b standard. That standard has only three nonoverlapping channels, which can support between six and eight calls at a time, whereas the 802.11a standard has 21 nonoverlapping channels and can support roughly 25 voice-over-IP calls at a time from one WLAN access point."<br /><br />I understand what they are saying, but the number of "B" networks totally outnumbers the "A" networks. So I will have to install a new WiFi network at my home and office just to take advantage of this. :( On the plus side... VOIP from my mobile phone!! Woo Hoo. :clap: