[March 10, 2005] AVM at CeBIT 2005: The News in Brief Tweet BERLIN and HANOVER, Germany, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - AVM Presents Innovations in Internet Telephony at CeBIT - New Flagship of the FRITZ!Box Fon Line - Policy-makers Influence VoIP Growth - New Leaders of the AVM FRITZ!Box Fon Family: Internet Telephony Now with ISDN Phones Too - Voice over IP Advancing: Internet Telephony Surpasses Fixed Lines in Quality and Capabilities Potential for Innovation Means Opportunity for Growth - New FRITZ!Box with More Performance and More Ports Now with WLAN Button and Connections for Printers and Storage - The First Complete WLAN Solution by AVM: New FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick for Simple, Secure Wireless Links - BlueFRITZ! AP-ISDN: Plug In and Surf On! Wireless ISDN Websurfing Now Easier Than Ever - FRITZ!Card Express for the New Notebook Standard: ISDN-Controller in a Compact Format with High Performance - New FRITZ! Software Protects Against Trojans and Spyware: Many New Features for More Security and Convenience - ADSL 2+: FRITZ!Box Ready for New Standard Bluetooth: Landline Access for Mobile Phones; iPod Wireless AVM's presentation at CeBIT 2005 sets the spotlight on phone calling over the Internet: In Hall 13, Stand C48, the Berlin communications specialist is exhibiting a great number of innovations. For example, the new flagship of the FRITZ!Box Fon fleet now connects ISDN telephones to Voice over IP. At the same time, ISDN convenience features such as alternating between parallel calls, call waiting and three-party calls are also available in Internet calls. Thanks to fully digital voice transmission from ISDN phones over the Internet, the digital/analog signal conversion that impairs voice quality with analog phones is eliminated. Managing Director Johannes Nill introduced AVM's new flagship at the AVM press conference on opening day. Nill also offered a look ahead at coming VoIP innovations. In the future, presence services will make telephone presence and availability fully customizable. Visitors to the AVM stand can experience the first phone calls with a sound quality comparable to CDs. According to Nill, political parameters will be decisive for the success of VoIP. Nill praised the EU Commission's "light touch" as beneficial for the new technologies. Another premiere at AVM's fair exhibit is the new FRITZ!Box. The integrated ADSL router and modem now lets users connect disk drives and printers. With four Ethernet ports and a USB interface, the new Box offers ideal connectivity options. The WLAN variant now fulfills the highest security requirements with WPA2 encryption (the 802.11i standard). And the 802.11g++ technology (125 Mbit/s) now implemented alongside the 802.11g wireless standard (54 Mbit/s) provides faster data communication. Many intelligent details, such as menu-driven installation and color-coded cables and sockets, make the user's job easier. At this year's CeBIT AVM also presents its first Wireless LAN client. The extremely compact FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick features remarkably easy installation and maximum security. Together with FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN, it guarantees high WLAN security and fast data throughput. All of the FRITZ!Box products are ready for the new ADSL 2+ standard, which permits greater reach and communication at up to 24 Mbit/s. Wireless ISDN in its easiest form ever is on display in the new AVM BlueFRITZ! ISDN Set. Thanks to an auto-pairing function, the Bluetooth set goes to work with no software installation or configuration necessary. As soon as the hardware is plugged in, the web browser starts. Furthermore, new Bluetooth profiles play music wirelessly, and give mobile phones direct access to a landline. AVM is also the first manufacturer to present an ISDN solution for notebooks with the new ExpressCard standard: FRITZ!Card Express, making its debut at CeBIT 2005, supplies the new notebook generation right from the start with an ISDN-Controller in the smallest ExpressCard format (34 mm wide by 5 mm high). And for the many fans of the FRITZ! software, AVM offers a new version at its fair stand, which will also be available for free downloading after CeBIT. Note: All of these topics are presented in detail in separate press releases. AVM GmbH, Alt-Moabit 95, D-10559 Berlin Tel. +49-(0)30-39-97-60 www.avm.de Urban Bastert Press Relations Office Tel. +49-(0)30-39-97-62-14 Fax +49-(0)30-39-97-66-40 E-mail [email protected] AVM Computersysteme Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG AVM GmbH, Alt-Moabit 95, D-10559 Berlin, Tel. +49-(0)30-39-97-60 www.avm.de; Urban Bastert, Press Relations Office, Tel. +49-(0)30-39-97-62-14, Fax +49-(0)30-39-97-66-40, E-mail [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]