SBC Offers Wi-Fi Integration for Schools, Hospitals

SBC Communications announced Wi-Fi integration services for vertical industry applications, such as schools and hospitals. The school WLAN integration service combines Cisco Systems' Aironet equipment, SpectraLink NetLink Wireless Telephones and SBC WAN connectivity. Wireless phones enable teachers and administrators, for example, to increase communications with parents and each other from anywhere on a WLAN-enabled school campus. They could also use the phones to text-message other teachers and administrators or to call 9-1-1. SBC cited a study that found that US schools spent $500 million on wireless technologies last year, a figure that could quadruple by next year. A similarly integrated WLAN solution for hospitals can be used in hospital rooms, telemetry areas, Intensive Care Units (ICUs), emergency rooms, radiology departments, and other units where traditional cellular phones can interfere with highly sensitive medical monitors and equipment.
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