Ericsson and Symbol Technologies announce partnership to sell converged wireless data and telecom solutions for enterprise and vertical market applications
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Date: Monday, May 3 1999
Ericsson Enterprise Solutions and Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: SBL) today
announced a co-marketing and technology-sharing agreement to deliver wireless
LAN-based telephony and data solutions from a single networking platform to
enterprise and vertical markets.
The Ericsson/Symbol partnership targets the emerging market for on-site
mobility where communication services and applications are offered over a
single converged network infrastructure, based on Internet protocol (IP)
technology, for both fixed and mobile enterprise users.
The partnership enables the two companies to combine expertise in technology
and services to deliver a streamlined networking environment combining voice
and data on a single infrastructure to its customers, enterprise-wide, from
the office to remote operations, such as manufacturing facilities, logistics
centers, and retail outlets.
"This partnership brings together the potent combination of Ericsson's on-
site mobility, data networking and IP telephony solutions with Symbol's
innovations in industry specific systems, wireless local area networks and
standards-compliant voice-over-IP client devices. Our mutual customers will
benefit from easy access to breakthrough technologies from leaders in their
respective fields," said Richard Bravman, senior vice president, wireless
systems, Symbol Technologies.
The agreement covers the joint marketing and distribution of each other's
products, which enables each company to offer enterprises a complete
integrated solution for IP telephony, data collection, transfer, and
management.
Ericsson will supply its Webswitch IP-PBX offerings (products from the recent
Touchwave acquisition), computer telephony servers, and Network Access product
lines to Symbol Technologies. Symbol will supply its NetVision voice-over-IP
phones, mobile computers and Spectrum24® wireless local area network access
points to Ericsson.
"Ericsson and Symbol will bring a family of products and a partnership
distribution channel that will allow corporate management to view data and
telephony as a common resource," said Haijo Pietersma, executive vice
president enterprise solutions, Ericsson. "These efforts will allow enhanced
application integration, improved resource utilization, reduced operations
expense while ensuring that customers enjoy enhanced productivity,
profitability and competitive market position."
In addition, Ericsson and Symbol will share technologies, jointly develop
common technology platforms and develop customer solutions based on voice-
over-IP technologies. Both companies are committed to developing standards-
based solutions. For instance, Ericsson is developing and will offer high-
speed (50-60Mbps) flexible wireless datacom solutions for both office and
Public Access solutions based on the HiperLAN/2 standard. Symbol's Spectrum24
and NetVision product lines conform to IEEE802.11 airwaves standards and ITU
H.323 multimedia standards.
Ericsson is the leading provider in the new telecoms world, with
communications solutions that combine telecom and datacom technologies with
freedom of mobility for the user. With more than 100,000 employees in 140
countries, Ericsson simplifies communications for its customers - network
operators, service providers, enterprises and consumers - the world over.
Please visit Ericsson's Press Room at: ericsson.se
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT
Caroline Freudenthal, Press Relation Manager
Ericsson Business Segment Enterprise Solutions
Phone: +46 8 422 20 89, E-mail: caroline.freudentahl@lme.ericsson.se
Paul Collinge, Director, Business Development
Ericsson Business Segment Enterprise Solutions
Phone: +46 8 422 0108, +46 70 580 0529
Doug Picker, Symbol Technologies
Phone: +1 516 738 4699
Additional information
Symbol Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in mobile data management systems
and services with innovative customer solutions based on wireless local area
networking for voice and data, application-specific mobile computing and bar
code data capture. Symbol's wireless LAN solutions are installed at more than
40,000 customer locations, and more than seven million Symbol scanners and
application-specific scanner-integrated mobile computer systems are in use
worldwide. Symbol and its global network of business partners provide
solutions for retailing, transportation and distribution logistics, parcel and
postal delivery, healthcare, education manufacturing and other industries.
Customer information is available from Symbol at 1-800-722-6234 and at www.symbol.com.
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