(May 11, 1999) - Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, today unveiled key components of its global IP Mobility vision, which is designed to provide the ultimate in communications mobility. These new Internet Protocol (IP) solutions provide mobile professionals with broadband wireless access to services such as email, corporate information, and the Internet. The solution wirelessly extends the corporate LAN to common areas such as meeting rooms and enables in-building public wireless hotspots such as airport lounges, providing wireless portable computer connectivity.
"This represents a significant step toward enabling the data communications market to move toward a wireless information society", said Pekka Lundmark, senior vice president of Nokia Wireless Business Communications. "Enabling the mobility of IP services via secure, broadband, wireless connectivity will change the traditional data networking playing field, similar to the way cellular has changed the wide area communications market."
The Nokia solution allows people to access information as if they were at their desk. Whether in a meeting room down the hall, visiting another corporate location, in their home office, or in an enabled hotspot (such as an airport lounge or hotel) users can reliably communicate and securely access the information most important to them, such as email, corporate data and the Internet.
The Nokia solution will save businesses time and money by keeping employees productive while they are away from their desks, and by reducing IT costs related to providing multi-user connectivity to common areas such as meeting rooms. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will also benefit by achieving differentiation through offering mobility solutions. ISPs can offer both wired and wireless high value IP based services, including wireless connectivity, IP security, and IP telephony. These services can be provided to mobile professionals both within corporate locations as well as in public hotspots such as airports, hotels, and convention centers. The solution leverages Nokia's core competence in mobility, with IP technologies including: Wireless LAN Solutions Wireless access points, wireless access PC cards, simplified user and administration environment IP Security Solutions Integrated firewall-VPN solutions, authentication, encryption IP Telephony Solutions Advanced call control and processing, client solutions, residential to carrier PSTN Gateways, IP telephones High Speed Access Solutions DSL infrastructure and CPE technology
The increasingly mobile workforce requires continuous access to on-line information in order to remain productive. This is a known problem for business travelers, but is also an issue for professionals within the office environment, many of which spend as much as half of the business day away from their desk. Mobile professionals are increasingly frustrated with the 'connection adventures' they go through attempting to access on-line information.
"Workers spend a significant amount of time away from their desks - even when they are in the office - and still need to remain productive," said Chris Nicoll, Director of Infrastructure Analysis, Current Analysis. "Nokia offers a network solution to solve this common business problem."
Availability The newly announced elements of Nokia's global IP Mobility vision will be demonstrated at the Networld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas May 11, 12, and 13, and will be commercially available in June 1999.
The Wireless Information Society The world of telecommunications will continue to migrate toward wireless technologies and will ultimately provide users with mobile access to all types of media and information in a variety of form factors including media phones and portable computers. Nokia has and will continue to play a leadership role in enabling the 'wireless information society' through its commitment to standards together with its proven ability to deliver highly innovative mobility solutions.
Enabling the traditional voice communications market to move toward mobility has changed the telecommunications playing field, fueled rapid world wide adoption of mobile phones, and provided the capability to transmit narrow band data communications, truly changing the way people work. Nokia's global 'IP Mobility' strategy takes two parallel complementary paths toward the 'wireless information society', one originating in cellular communications and the other in traditional data networking. The first path started from wide area voice communications and is now evolving through narrowband data services towards wideband packet data services. The second path starts from a fixed IP network, and is now evolving towards delivering voice, security VPNs and broadband wireless "hotspot" services.
Nokia is the world's leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile and fixed telecommunication networks including related customer services. Nokia also supplies solutions and products for fixed and wireless data communication, as well as multimedia terminals and computer displays. In 1998, net sales totaled EUR 13.3 billion (USD 15.7 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges, has sales in over 130 countries and employs more than 47 000 people worldwide.
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