Frost & Sullivan awards Calypso’s automated switching technology

Saturday, September 25th, 2004 | Posted in VoIP News | 1 Comment »

Consultancy Frost & Sullivan awarded Calypso Wireless its 2004 Excellence in Technology Award for Calypso’s patented automated switching of network access points (ASNAP™) technology.

ASNAP allows true convergence of cellular GSM and WiFi VoIP technology, enabling mobile devices to switch seamlessly between GSM and WiFi VoIP phone calls.

"Innovations such as the Internet-ready cell phones and WLAN public and private hot spots are creating an environment that is more conducive to the convergence of cellular and Wi-Fi services for both data and voice, and ASNAP™ is Calypso’s innovative technology in this space," says Frost & Sullivan industry analyst Rajesh Kannan.

ASNAP™ allows cell phones and other mobile devices to automatically detect an available WLAN and then switch between the signals from a GSM/GPRS or CDMA cellular tower to a short-range broadband network such as cable with Wi-Fi. The wireless customers remain connected to the GSM/GPRS or CDMA network until their cell phone detects and switches to a Wi-Fi network, at a speed of up to 11 Mbps.

The technology has immense potential since it ensures global connectivity of voice, video, and data by way of the most efficient connection point, at a lower cost to both the mobile operator and the consumer. Switching between cellular and WLAN networks also enables movie-quality, real-time videoconferencing through cellular phones, fast pictures and video clips with data messaging and audio, and two-way data messaging.

"ASNAP™ could help carriers save billions of dollars in additional frequency spectrum and infrastructure equipment by offloading capacity to the WLAN and IP networks," says Rajesh. "WLAN owners would further benefit in that they accrue revenues from mobile carriers for calls and data that have been routed through their WLAN access points."