This is the first installment in a series on the topic on VoIP in the Enterprise. It is written by Trevor who works in the field of telecommunication. Nokia introduced the promise of the Eseries devices as phones for the enterprise. Using these phone models to replace someone’s office desk phone, allowing people to have two phone numbers assigned to their mobile phone, one as a ‘mobile number’ and the other as the ‘desk number’ seems to be Nokia’s VoIP goal with the Eseries. Here’s more on how this will play out from Trevor.
VoIP in the Enterprise.
Over the last few years many large customers have been installing VoIP (Voice over IP) solutions to gain the cost saving benefits, that include but are not limited to reduced MAC charges and toll bypass. The down side of VoIP is the handsets, which do little more than traditional phones at a much higher cost.
That’s all about to change. With the introduction of phones like the Nokia E series and others, the cost of outfitting an employee with a desk and mobile phone has been greatly reduced, as you only need one handset. There are several telecommunications providers, that are either working on, or are trialling converged POTS, Mobile and VoIP solutions.
An example is T-Mobile in the US, have their HotSpot @ Home service (this is available in selected areas). This service allows a subscriber to make unlimited calls at no charge from the WiFi hotspots at home and around the city. With major players in the VoIP space, like Cisco and Avaya announcing native clients support for the S60 3rd edition phones (they aren’t available yet though) that landscape is about to change. Traditional Telco’s and VoIP providers are going to be able to offer new and exciting products. I believe that you will also see more and more WiFi enabled devices being released over the next few years and the convergence between WiFi, Traditional Mobile and POTS will become commonplace in the not so distant future.
So all you people with E-Series phones, isn’t it nice to know you were involved at the start of this revolution.
Thanks for the photos and nice write up Trevor. I look forward to next installment.
I agree with Trevor that VoIP in the corporate world will change enterprise telephony. Companies are naturally drawn to technologies that can bring about significant cost savings.
With most of the E-Series devices, the theory is that companies can save money on least cost routing for long distance and International phone calls. At the same time, end user will be able to take advantage of PBX features normally only available to desktop phones, on their dual mode E-series devices. Features such as extension based calling, forwarding of calls etc. Let’s hope that this vision plays out. If so we’ll certainly be seeing a lot more Eseries devices around the world!
Let’s end with a clip from Avaya. It’s a bit cheesy but is on topic.
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Does anyone know whteher there will be a sccp client for the E65??
Lars
we’re trieing to install it on a E70 V3 but it won’t run. we’ve got e60 where it works on but with the e70 it won’t work….
please send me the latest SCCP for E65 .
thanks!
job@spw.ru
Hi Folks, I have just obtained the Nokia E65 and I have callmanager 4.1.3 and Callmanager 4.2.3 clusters. Is there any chance that anyone can send me the SCCP client for the S60 v3 (E61 etc) for the phone? I have a demo in Houston this week, and I’m demonstrating various convergence technologies, but according to our local Cisco SE, I can’t buy this produict unti ate least May 20th. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated, as I can try this and maybe incorporate into the demo.
Mail is bill.anderson@rtp-solutions.com
Plase, can someone plase send me sccp (beta),
i want to test my nokia E60 with my call manager.
My mail is rob[at]robende.nl. Thanks
I found this Blog very usefull to everyone like me who is interested with Wireless Voice over Internet and integrating with Call Manager 5.
Please can anyone send me SCCP Client Software for E61 Mobile Phone for Cisco Call Manager 5 for Testing.
aragon@mail.com
aragon@kems.net
Thanks in advance.
Francis
Hi Guys,
Great posts. I have one question to ask. We have a purely Cisco infrastructure. Has anyone tested the auto failover from wifi / call manager to gsm / mobile provider?
We want to have wireless in our sites but the handover would have to be seemless to the users when they leave the corporate wifi range. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew
aabel@primark.ie
I have an Asterisk/Trixbox system with chan_sccp2 (the newest version, 20060408) and I have 3 7960s, 1 7940 and 1 7912 working fine here at my house but I do not know what file I need to put in my TFTP directory and the format it needs to be in for the SCCP client. I have an SEP0013FDxxxxxx.cnf.xml right now (like I have for all my other SCCP phones) but if someone could go into their tftp directories and pull one out and either post it here or e-mail it to me at george.chongris@gmail.com that would be great thanks
Hi Guys,
Like anybody on this topic I want to test my E65 brand new phone with our cluster CCM 4.0.
Can anyone send me the beta SCCP client ?
Thanks in advance
with the mail oliallovon@yahoo.fr
Where is SCCP client for Nokia e61? Please could you please send it to me by e-mail as an attachment?
Hi,
I also purchased a E65 and would like to test it with our cluster CCM 4.1.
Can anyone send me the beta SCCP client to me@mikey98.com ?
Thanks in advance
Can someone send me the SCCP client to test as well? Would be very much appreciated!!! chronic140@hotmail.com
Thanks
Would please someone send me the latest SCCP to test my E70 on our callmanager??
matjaz.leskovar@gmail.com
Maybe it has been published before, but I see many people asking for the Nokia Call Connector for Cisco: it is available for download here (60day trial):
http://businesssoftware.nokia.com/nokia_intellisync_call_connect_for_cisco_downloads.php
I’m testing built-in SIP client of the E51\E65 with CME4 used these instructions: http://polydistortion.net/monkey/archives/2006/11/16/003924.html