This special report on campus mobile telephony examines the options for Wi-Fi telephony, PBX integration and in-building signal improvement, culminating in an evaluation of the alternatives, deployment scenarios and ongoing management and support.
Campus mobile telephony
The argument for Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi sticking points
Enterprise-mobile integration
In-building signal improvement
Evaluation criteria
The conclusion -- Making hard decisions
The argument for Wi-Fi
In the first part of this series Daniel Taylor examines Wi-Fi telephony in the enterprise and the prospects of Wi-Fi as a way to improve on-campus mobile telephone performance.
Wi-Fi sticking points
Wi-Fi telephony offers many positive benefits but there are some potential downsides of Wi-Fi telephony that every IT manager should know.
Enterprise-mobile integration
Enterprise-mobile integration (EMI) distinguishes itself from other network convergence architectures by providing valuable integration between carrier and enterprise networks. This section addresses the benefits and challenges of EMI from an IT perspective.
In-building signal improvement
If your workers are using their mobile telephones in the office, and dropped calls and network dead spots are becoming problematic, it's best to consider an in-building wireless solution to improve the performance of carrier networks on campus. In this section, Taylor discusses the key points for consideration when evaluating an in-building wireless solution.
Evaluation criteria
An increasing number of employees use their mobile telephones as their primary business telephone -- which complicates business cards, adds a second voicemail platform for users to manage and grows telephony budgets. Taylor discusses how investing in Wi-Fi telephony as part of your next Wi-Fi upgrade may be the answer to this complication.
The conclusion -- Making hard decisions
IT managers are trying to manage their campus mobile telephony situation, but they face a number of challenges. You can't change a user's behavior and confiscate cell phones at the door. So what do you do? Ease your worried minds (and shrinking budgets) with these recommendations from Daniel Taylor.
About the author: Daniel Taylor is managing director for the Mobile Enterprise Alliance, Inc. (MEA), and he is responsible for global alliance development, programs, marketing and member relations. He brings over fourteen years of high technology experience and is well known as a subject matter expert on many of the aspects of mobility, including wireless data networking, security, enterprise applications and communications services. Prior to the MEA, Dan held a number of product marketing and development positions in the communications industry.
