Avaya Unveils New Wireless IP Telephony Products For Converged Mobility Throughout - and Beyond - an Enterprise

Avaya Unveils New Wireless IP Telephony Products For Converged
Mobility Throughout - and Beyond - an Enterprise
* New Voice-over-Wireless Gateway and Access Points Are Key Components of
Converged Mobility Solution Delivering Seamless Communications Across Private
WLANs and Public Cellular Networks



BASKING RIDGE, N.J., July 27  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avaya (NYSE:AV), a
leading global provider of business communications software, systems and
services, today unveiled new converged mobility products that help extend the
key advantages of office communications to employees traveling throughout - and
beyond - an enterprise. These products play a critical role in the converged
Wi-Fi and cellular solution architecture Avaya is developing with Motorola and
Proxim.  Avaya's new products seamlessly extend IP telephony - a software-based
technology that uses voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) to transmit voice over
a data network - to wireless networks. The new products are designed to improve
the delivery of IP applications and voice communications for a mobile
workforce, driving enhanced productivity, new cost efficiencies and greater
security in enterprise wireless communications.

The new products -- the Avaya W310 WLAN Gateway and Avaya W110 WLAN Access
Points -- incorporate co-developed technologies from Avaya and Proxim. The
gateway and access points, along with Avaya's award-winning IP telephony
software, Communication Manager, deliver a voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN)
solution that will support the Motorola CN620, a new dual-network Mobile Office
Device announced today by Motorola.  Avaya has been collaborating with Motorola
and Proxim on the creation of an enterprise seamless mobility solution, which
supports continuous communications to users across business wireless networks
and public cellular networks.

This enterprise seamless mobility solution helps organizations boost
productivity by enabling employees to use the Motorola dual-network device to
conduct wireless conversations that will not fade or drop as they move to
various locations throughout a work campus, as well as away from their office
building. Users of the enterprise mobility solution will also have seamless
access to advanced IP capabilities, such as listening to e-mail, accessing
corporate directories and overseeing multi-party teleconferences, as they move
across a WLAN and onto public cellular networks.

Seamless mobility can also drive greater cost-efficiency for enterprises
through device consolidation and centralized management of an organization's
WLAN infrastructure. For example, highly mobile employees who switch between
office phones, cell phones or other devices for communications can now use one
Motorola dual-network device to make VoIP-based calls as they travel within an
enterprise or to an outside destination. The Avaya W310 Wireless LAN Gateway
and W110 Access Points also let information technology (IT) administrators
centrally manage and monitor an enterprise's wireless networking capabilities
from one location, resulting in lower labor and administration costs.

"By delivering improved, seamless access to IP applications over wireless
networks, the key advantages employees have in their offices are extended to
them as they move within an enterprise, and outside office walls," said Micky
Tsui, vice president and general manager for Avaya's communications systems
division. "Our collaboration with Motorola and Proxim will help businesses take
the next step in deploying advanced wireless solutions that meet the needs of a
highly mobile workforce."

The seamless mobility solution from Avaya, Motorola and Proxim is in the final
stages of development and currently undergoing trials in several enterprises
throughout North America. Commercial availability of the solution is expected
later this year.

Avaya VoWLAN Architecture Delivers Greater Security, Enhanced Voice Quality

Users of the Avaya W310 WLAN Gateway and W110 Access Points, which are now
available to enterprises globally, will also gain wireless communications with
greater security, improved reliability and enhanced voice quality and
functionality within the enterprise network. This is made possible through
standards-based technologies and the architecture of the Avaya WLAN gateway and
access points.

The Avaya gateway and access points deliver greater security by placing the
critical access point intelligence and security policy provisioning into a
single gateway. This helps enterprises to detect vulnerabilities in a WLAN -
caused by the placement of "rogue access points" - and stop hackers or
unauthorized parties from accessing a business network.  In addition, the Wi-Fi
Protected Access standard encrypts communications over a wireless IP network in
order to keep conversations confidential.

Avaya's converged mobility products deliver in-enterprise wireless
communications that enable mobile workers to have wireless conversations
anywhere within the network with the equivalent reliability and voice quality
of a desktop office phone. The gateway and access points are designed to ensure
that network users' conversations do not drop or experience gaps, regardless of
their location. Increased Quality of Service (QoS), which is based on Wireless
Multimedia Extensions (WME) standards, facilitates clear IP-based voice
communications over 802.11 Wi-Fi networks.

"Voice over Wireless LAN is clearly the 'killer app' for wireless networks, and
Avaya's new converged mobility products deliver the critical infrastructure
necessary to rapidly accelerate the deployment of IP wireless," said Nick
Lippis, president, Lippis Enterprises.  "By introducing better security, voice
quality and reliability in VoWLAN, Avaya is driving the natural evolution of
enterprise wireless communications."

Scana Corporation: Enhancing Mobility Throughout an Enterprise

With these new mobility products, Avaya provides a VoWLAN foundation for
companies of all sizes, including Columbia, S.C.-based SCANA Corporation, a
Fortune 500 energy company that uses Avaya's new WLAN gateway and access
points, as well as its flagship IP telephony software. With a large percentage
of its electric generating plant workers, line workers and other employees
requiring mobile capabilities, SCANA chose the Avaya solution to deliver
improved wireless access to its business network, driving enhanced
collaboration and productivity.

"Avaya enabled us to introduce voice over wireless LAN solutions that help our
employees make faster decisions and be more productive," said Tim Ritter,
communications manager for the SCANA Corporation. "In our business, we need to
remain instantly accessible and in close contact with colleagues and customers
while on the go -- in and around our facilities. This makes for more productive
employee interactions and delivers capabilities that are absolutely essential
to our business."

About Avaya

Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than 1
million businesses worldwide, including over 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500(R).
Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in secure and
reliable Internet Protocol (IP) telephony systems and communications software
applications and services.

Driving the convergence of voice and data communications with business
applications -- and distinguished by comprehensive worldwide services -- Avaya
helps customers leverage existing and new networks to achieve superior business
results.  For more information visit the Avaya website: http://www.avaya.com/ .


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