Thus the phone can be moved about. The GSM phone gateway is 802.11 but uses a different access point. They have an FXS product that provides an analog phone interface to IP gateway. Unified Messaging James Ciricione, product manager Cisco uOne Enterprise Edition target availability 2H CY2000. This requires separate administration, separate infrastructure, separate directories, separate storage, separate training, separate organizations and budgets.
Users have to go multiple administrators, increased operational costs.
Unified messaging merges these infrastructures, administration, directory, message store. In the past Unified Messaging boxes were very expensive, were proprietary and did not scale well. The distribution also provides resiliency, e.g. can replicate applications server. Also the telephone user interface is written in XML and so is more open and easier to modify or develop for. This will all tie in with the 3G cell phones to tie into stock quotes, calendars, email, voicemail etc.