Fixed Mobile Convergence

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October 06, 2009

Fuze Box Announces Availability of Fuze Meeting for BlackBerry Smartphones

By Raju Shanbhag, TMCnet Contributor


Fuze Box recently announced that its Fuze Meeting facility is now generally available for the BlackBerry (News - Alert) Storm, BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphones.


Fuze Meeting enables seamless, high-definition online collaboration between mobile and desktop users. With redundant systems and a phone carrier-class data center, it provides reliable services to the customers. Also, all meetings are SSL encrypted to ensure you can conduct even your most sensitive meetings with confidence.

With Fuze Meeting, the users of BlackBerry smartphones can launch or participate in a web meeting from their mobile device. Fuze Meeting makes use of features such as 3G, Wi-Fi, faster processors and elegant displays, available in Backberry phones and enables users to view video content, images and documents. Users can also chat securely with co-workers and friends, send meeting invites using Fuze Meeting.

“With Fuze Meeting, BlackBerry users now have a business-class mobile meeting application to enhance their productivity and keep them in sync with their colleagues and co-workers," said Patrick Moran (News - Alert), vice president of marketing at Fuze Box, in a release. "The BlackBerry solution is the benchmark for keeping colleagues connected, and now Fuze Meeting is adding more, with a fully functional, mobile meeting app that truly enables real-time collaboration.”

Fuze Meeting combines Blackberry functions such as full-featured conference call management; the ability to view meeting participants' desktops, files and presentations on-the-go, in real-time; watching and listening to high-quality video and audio; and consolidating multiple IM platforms into one application. Fuze Meeting is free for up to three web users and seven audio users.

Recently, the company teamed up with Box.net, an online collaboration provider, to offer Fuze Meeting conferencing capabilities to users from within the Box.net service. Box.net users can now instantly and synchronously present, review and collaborate on content in their Box.net account with their teammates, clients and partners. The two companies may integrate their services with more new features, said official sources.

Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Patrick Barnard


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Fixed Mobile Convergence

encompasses a wide range of mobile services that converge elements of fixed communications infrastructure to complement the core mobile service. In most cases fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services allow the user or the network to take advantage of higher speed, cheaper local unlicensed access networks in local environments for lower value, high volume transactions.
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BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) converges office desk phones and BlackBerry® smartphones, allowing users to access standard enterprise voice features whether at their desks or on the go*. BlackBerry MVS encompasses BlackBerry® MVS Client software for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry MVS Services of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, and the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite.

With BlackBerry MVS, BlackBerry smartphone users can access enterprise desk phone options directly from the menu interface of the BlackBerry phone application, while at the same time securely authenticating to the organization’s enterprise telephony system (PBX). BlackBerry MVS also gives IT administrators the control to set voice policies on the BlackBerry smartphone, so that inbound and outbound calls use the enterprise line. This allows for all mobile calls to be logged or recorded for compliance with regulatory or corporate standards.
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