Nortel (
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) capabilities and solutions that enable business to use their existing WLAN network to deploy advanced enterprise applications such as location tracking, advanced security solutions, and voice over the WLAN.
In addition, Nortel has launched several upgrades to increase wireless LAN
network security, and improve overall productivity by allowing businesses to use the network to quickly locate people, company assets and equipment that are dispersed across their campus.
"As more of our employees become connected to our wireless LAN network, mobile PCs, notebooks and PDAs will increasingly be relied on as voice devices," said Cary Houck, senior network engineer, ProMedica Health System, in a statement. "By using the enterprise wireless LAN to support high-quality voice calls, Nortel's WLAN solution will help ensure the benefits of unified communications can follow employees across our campus."
New voice capabilities on the Nortel Wireless LAN 2300 Series will ensure that voice quality is maintained in the presence of other wireless traffic and allow customers to optimize the performance of various mobile devices that will also adopt the standard. This includes Nortel’s new WLAN Handset 6100 Series, available the second quarter. These handsets will be able to fully integrate with Nortel's enterprise VoIP
and WLAN platforms and provide the flexibility of 802.11 a/b/g support.
Nortel's Asset Tracking and Management solution enables businesses to use their WLAN network to provide real-time location and tracking of up to 10,000 individual assets or people with a location accuracy of one to three meters. The solution combines the Nortel WLAN 2300 Series with Ekahau real-time location system, enabling the use of RF tags that determine their location by interacting with Nortel WLAN 2300 Series access points. This eliminates the need to create a discrete network of RFID readers used solely for asset tracking purposes, speeding deployment.
Nortel's Wireless Intrusion (
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