As forward-looking companies move off legacy PBXs to VoIP infrastructures, even bolder groups of users are looking to literally cut the cord connecting employees to 20th-century voice technology. While research from IDC shows that only 22% of companies are running their voice networks primarily on IP technology, some users are making the jump from LAN-based VoIP to voice over wireless LANs (VoWi-Fi). Others are pushing the technology further into the frontier of cellular/VoWi-Fi convergence. One organization using campus-based VoWi-Fi is the state of New York court system. In courthouses in Manhattan and the Bronx, several dozen Nortel wireless LAN (WLAN) IP phones are deployed to court officers and other personnel, who use the phones as a complementary voice communication device, along with standard shortwave radios.
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