Ericsson will launch in October an upgrade to its server-based IP system, which will enable people to stay connected to their work with just their mobile phone.
Urban Gillstrom, vice president of Ericsson's enterprise division, told ZDNet Asia in an interview Wednesday that the next-generation Mobility Gateway will enable users to send e-mail and instant messages, as well as make voice calls on one mobile device
In the case of e-mail, because the technology will enable data to be synced with the user's e-mail system over the IP network, a user will be able to move seamlessly from one device to another, say, a laptop to a mobile phone, without being disconnected.
Mobility Gateway 2.0 touts the mobile phone over the IP network as a complete replacement for the traditional PBX (Private Branch eXchange) system, and Ericsson estimates a 30 percent saving for the user based on the lowered cost of making calls--in particular, long-distance calls--over IP.
"The classic PBX is going into VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) more and more," said Gillstrom. "Increasingly, we see a trend of the PBX moving away from being hosted at the customer end, with more hosted solutions."
Gillstrom, who heads Ericsson's global enterprise business, sees the technology as a way for the operators to branch out and expand their offerings to customers, especially in mature markets. "In a country like Singapore, the market is saturated. People are no longer working to build new infrastructure, but to find new ways to [cut] cost for the business," he said.
Emerging markets, on the other hand, may be able to catch up with the more advanced countries in the region.
"India, for example, has jumped straight to mobility without fixed lines. It has jumped generations of telephony solutions," said Gillstrom.
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