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Customer Profile
• 802.11 Wireless IP Gateway solution is most suited
to customers that want to implement a voice over
wireless LAN infrastructure
• Early adopters and technology sensitive users,
such as healthcare, retail or industrial sectors, can
capitalise on the need for wireless data and add
voice devices on the same wireless infrastructure
Key Points
• Leverage investment in wireless LAN and
Meridian 1/Succession CSE 1000/CallPilot and
other applications
• Cost saving – utilising common wireless LAN for
both Meridian based wireless voice services and
standard wireless data intranet services and
applications.
• Cost saving - extending of common fixed LAN
with a wireless LAN network for voice and data in
communal areas and areas that are difficult /
expensive to wire.
• Mobility – enables users with the ability to roam
about the workplace with real-time wireless voice
and high throughput wireless data
communications
• Increase Productivity - wireless users can take
calls that otherwise would not reach intended
recipient
• Open Standards Solution L Wireless LAN based on
IEEE 802.11, wireless voice based on
ITU H.323 with Nortel Networks specific
extensions.
Features and Benefits
The Wireless IP Gateway card emulates a Digital Line
Card (XDLC) and has 24 DSP ports that provides
gateway functionality to facilitate the bridging
(conversion) of voice streams between the packet-
switched (IP) data network and the circuit-switched
PBX network. These 24 DSP ports allow the card to
support up to 24 wireless IP handsets. In addition,
the Wireless IP Gateway card acts as a Terminal
Proxy Server or “virtual line card” for wireless
handsets. In this capacity, the card is responsible for
registering handsets and keeping track of the
maximum number of sets that can be registered
per card.
Nortel Networks 802.11 Wireless IP Gateway card
supports the following handsets from Symbol
Technologies Inc.
• NetVision Phone – 2 Mbps Frequency Hopping
Spread Spectrum – 802.11
• NetVision Phone – 11 Mbps Direct Sequence
Spread Spectrum – 802.11b
A special version of the NetVision phone software
supports the H323+ protocol to allow for M1 feature
support access from the wireless set. Symbol
handsets are shipped with Nortel Networks specific
software which can also be downloaded from the
Symbol website.
802.11 Wireless IP Gateway
Overview
The 802.11 Wireless IP Gateway card enables third-party wireless IP handsets to deliver the feature rich suite of
Meridian Digital Services over a Wireless LAN connection. It is a fully integrated offering in Nortel Networks
communications portfolio which includes Meridian 1 and Succession CSE 1000. This product is designed to
capitalise on the convergence of voice, data and wireless while providing investment protection by building
on the feature richness and reliability of Nortel Networks Meridian 1 and Succession CSE 1000.