Unified voice, video, and data communications in conjunction with collaboration technologies enable employees to work more productively and enhance overall business efficiency. The challenges to achieving these goals include increases in devices being networked, new multimedia applications with demanding network service requirements, and increased employee mobility. Enterprises worldwide need to satisfy the reliability, quality, manageability, mobility and security requirements of integrated voice, video and data services, all of which are essential elements of unified communications.

To meet these challenges, enterprises demand networking solutions that provide both wired and wireless access as well as automated traffic prioritization capabilities to support today’s multimedia business applications. With embedded intelligence that can be fine-tuned to the stringent requirements of voice and video applications, Enterasys networking solutions are leveraged to:

• Increase employee productivity through improved availability and reliability of real-time and collaborative applications
• Reduce administrative expenditures and costs with automated configuration of IP phones and other devices
• Automatically identify, prioritize, and control voice and video traffic on a per user basis based upon business requirements
• Guarantee service quality and reliability for voice and video applications within shared wired and wireless environments