Integrated mobile and fixed line systems

Sybase and Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) have partnered to provide customers with a fully integrated mobile and fixed line, voice and data solution that supports and includes the management of a range of device types through a completely heterogeneous environment.

The solution marries Sybase’s mobile device management capabilities with SEN’s Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) technology providing an end-to-end solution that businesses can deploy to vastly simplify the management of a hugely diversified communications infrastructure. The solution will also help businesses to effectively manage operations such as inventory and expenses, logistics, mobile devices and applications, the vendors claim.

Sybase’s Afaria will be fully embedded into SEN’s HiPath MobileConnect V2.3, an enterprise solution that unifies fixed enterprise VoIP, VoWLAN and cellular mobility. The solution consists of two components: MobileConnect Appliance which is located at the central site, sitting on the wired network between the WLAN and the SIP PBX. It continually monitors and manages mobile user sessions regardless of whether they are on the corporate or public network. The second component, MobileConnect Client, is software that resides on the dual-mode handset and works with the MobileConnect Appliance to navigate enterprise-cellular exchange.