Building on its nascent partnerships with VoIP systems manufacturers and solution providers in Japan, Meru Networks said today it will install its wireless VoIP infrastructure for Osaka Gas, one of Japan's largest national utilities.
Osaka Gas will use Meru's WLAN System as a pervasive wireless VoIP network in its 50 offices, including its headquarters in Osaka, Japan.
Meru earlier this year announced partnerships with three of the four top VoIP systems manufacturers and solution providers in Japan: Oki Electric, Hitachi High-Technologies and Fujitsu I-Networks.
Using the Meru WLAN System and NTT DoCoMo's dual-mode Cellular/Wi-Fi service and handsets, Osaka Gas will provide converged, wireless data and voice services to its employees. The solution gives workers one-number access, and runs calls over the corporate WLAN indoors, handing them off to NTT DoCoMo's cellular service when roaming outdoors.
"Our solution has been widely received in Japan where enterprises are aggressively adopting and deploying wireless VoIP," said Ihab Abu-Hakima, Meru’s president and CEO, in a news release. "For enterprises like Osaka Gas that are rolling out pervasive wireless LANs for wireless VoIP, Meru's WLAN System stands head and shoulders above the competition as the only solution that can meet their requirements for scalability, manageability, reliability and quality."
