Demo@15 attracts wireless messaging, voice protection

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — While the glitzy new consumer products may get most of the media attention at the Demo@15 show this year, enterprise applications were also well represented.

Symbol Technologies demonstrated its Wireless Intrusion Protection System, a standalone sensor for WLAN deployments.

Rather than incorporating the Wi-Fi intrusion protection hardware and software inside the access point and requiring it to do double duty as an AP and a security device, the Wireless Intrusion Protection System is a separate unit that can be placed at the edge of the network and use the intelligence built into the switch for analysis and reporting. By dumbing down the sensor components, the cost of an intrusion detection device is lowered significantly, said Graham Melville, director of product marketing at Symbol.

Adomo introduced a voice messaging system that anyone who works in the enterprise will appreciate.

The Adomo Voice Messaging for Exchange appliance plugs into most PBX system and uses Microsoft Active Directory for lookup of contacts.

The appliance takes the voice mail and passes onto Exchange server as a wave file attached to an e-mail notification. In the future, the alert to a user will go to Instant Messaging.

Users will have the option to play the message either on the phone or as a wave file within the e-mail. Because it is mapped to Active Directory, the appliance can tell a user who is calling if it is in the user’s contact list. It gives users the choice of how they want to receive the call and on which of any of the user’s phones it should be sent. If a user is remote, they can type in a new phone number and the appliance will dial that number and deliver its messages.

The chairman of the board of the company is Robert Cohn, one of the original founders of voice mail more than 20 years ago when he was head of Octel.

The Voice Messaging appliance will ship next quarter. Cost is about $60 to $80 per seats starting with 500 seat installations.

 With the enterprise currently looking at alternatives to the Windows OS, such as Linux and Apple’s OS X, Real Software will most likely make corporate developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic a lot happier.

Using RealBasic 2005, a RAD tool, developers can write applications in a VB-like program and run it on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS 10.