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Voice over Wireless LAN Solution Brief

Overview Let this white paper from ProCurve Networking by HP serve as your primer on Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN), a solution that marries WLAN and IP telephony technologies to help ensure that workers can always be reached when needed?especially when they're away from their desks. VoWLAN technology can help alleviate the problems associated with cell phone use in enterprise facilities, including poor interior coverage and expensive per-minute or per-month charges. Download the paper to learn how VoWLAN technology is helping today's organizations expand their communications capabilities while further leveraging their existing WLAN and VoIP investments.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Hewlett-Packard (HP)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2009	Downloads	90
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wi-Fi (802.11), Access Technologies, Wireless LAN, Wide Area Networks (WAN), VoIP - IP Telephony, Wireless Internet, LAN - WAN Standards, Voice - Data Integration

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