Cisco Ties Up With Industry Majors To Further VoIP communication

In a long overdue move Cisco Systems announced that it is working with industry majors, Intel Nokia and Research In Motion to optimize their respective client platforms to integrate VoIP communications capabilities into wireless local area networks. For quite some time now, the holy grail of communication has been the promise of cellular/IP convergence enabling voice conversations to be seamlessly handed off from WLAN, or WiFi, networks to cellular operators. In recent months new specifications like the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology and the acceptance of the IEE 802.11n standard have accelerated the idea that WiFi telephony represents a viable alternative for IP based communications.