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23rd March 2004 - RTX Telecom A/S, Danish wireless-technology
expert, is moving ahead rapidly with product designs
to kick-start the consumer wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP)
market. It has also established a subsidiary, RTX America
Inc., to accelerate participation by the PC and telecommunications
industries in the rapidly-growing VoIP opportunity.
At the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
(CTIA) Wireless conference, here this week, RTX will
demonstrate cordless phone sets designed to provide
wireless VoIP access through a PC’s USB port, in
addition to a standard interface to public-switched
telephone networks (PSTNs). This provides consumers
with streamlined access to regular telephone services
and VoIP using a single cordless telephone.
This will be the first of what will be a suite of products,
including a VoFi (802.11-enabled VoIP) phone.
It’s Timely
“Wireless VoIP is becoming a hot trend and RTX
Telecom is establishing itself as a supplier of the
key system components and platforms that will bring
this technology to consumers in the home,” said
J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D. principal analyst with MobileTrax.
"The VoIP trend started with a focus on the enterprise,
not the consumer market. With technologies that can
leapfrog the costs and installation complexities of
enterprise VoIP, such as RTX is offering, the market
could experience a big surge in consumer VoIP demand,"
said Connie Wong, Director of Wireless Communications,
Semico Research Corp.
“RTX has been servicing the consumer electronics
industry for the last 10 years with competitive, advanced,
cordless phones and other wireless products. Bringing
the features and reliability to VoIP that consumers
have come to expect from their telephone products is
a natural extension of our business,” said Jorgen
Elbaek, president and CEO of RTX Telecom.
“I believe RTX’s wireless expertise and technology
will be the enabler for bringing VoIP to the consumer,
and this market will be driven from North America,”
stated Chris Tubis, CEO of RTX America.
Chris Tubis joined RTX to establish a North American
beachhead for the Aalborg, Denmark-based wireless technology
company. He is a Silicon Valley veteran, formerly vice-president
of National Semiconductor’s Wireless Communications
Group and president of Ultra RF.
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