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March 16, 2004
Alcatel expands LAN switches, IP-PBXs range

NEW DELHI -- Alcatel recently added next-generation WLAN products to its range of LAN switches and IP-PBXs to deliver the industry's most comprehensive, standards-based wired and wireless converged mobility solutions. Leveraging its leadership in IP telephony, data switches built for mobility and convergence, wireless technologies and communication applications, Alcatel delivers more services and capabilities on fewer platforms and infrastructures to access business applications and resources from anywhere and at any time.

Built upon a proven technology, Alcatel's next-gen enterprise WLAN convergence solution offers the industry's broadest and most secure enterprise mobility solution. It complements its existing range of data and voice mobility offerings that include wired dynamic and authenticated user mobility, voice-only digital wireless systems and unified communications applications. This range of mobile solutions allows Alcatel to meet the diverse needs of enterprises as they empower their mobile workforce.

Effective today, Alcatel is offering enterprises a comprehensive WLAN solution that delivers secure and mobile network access. These new Alcatel products include OmniAccess 1200 access points and OmniAccess 4000 WLAN switches and appliances. The OmniAccess WLAN product family provides the industry's most up-to-date platform for voice over WLAN and other real-time applications and services.

Further, supporting its WLAN convergence offering, Alcatel is announcing its Mobile IP Touch 300 and 600 wireless phones. Designed to meet the communication needs of enterprises, the Alcatel Mobile IP Touch telephones act as extensions of the Alcatel OmniPCX family of IP-PBXs to provide access to enterprise-class communication features and services. They utilise the IEEE 802.11b global standard to operate as client devices on WLANs, allowing converged mobile voice and data applications on a single wireless infrastructure. Alcatel Mobile IP Touch phones complement Alcatel's wide range of voice mobility solutions allowing enterprises to choose the solution that best fits their needs.

Jean-Christophe Giroux, president, enterprise solutions activities, Alcatel, added: "Alcatel's WLAN strategy is the subsequent cornerstone in delivering the industry's most comprehensive enterprise convergence offering. Our heritage in mobile technologies, leadership in converged infrastructures, and strategy to deliver and support next-generation business applications makes us the only global enterprise player equipped to deliver a truly comprehensive, standards-based enterprise WLAN convergence offering."

Chris Kozup, program director, technology research services, META Group, noted: "Integrating wireless into the enterprise network is a logical evolution of the converged communications infrastructure. Enterprises require a wireless system that integrates seamlessly into the existing network, and delivers mission critical applications, including VoIP in a highly reliable, predictable, and secure fashion."

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