New Cisco wireless IP phone and affordable new Cisco desktop IP phones deliver wider access to business benefits of IP communications

The new products enhance productivity and allow greater mobility in the workplace while also improving business resilience. Today's announcement features three new IP phones, the Cisco® Wireless IP Phone 7920, the Cisco IP Phone 7912G and the Cisco IP Phone 7902G, as well as new enhancements to IP-based hardware and software.

The easy-to-use Cisco 7920 provides employees in hospitals, warehouses, retail stores, universities and other highly mobile work environments with reliable access to Cisco IP Communications systems, anywhere in the workplace at anytime. The phone operates seamlessly over intelligent IP network infrastructure with Cisco Aironet® Series IEEE 802.11b compliant wireless access points.

Dr Marwan Al-Ahmadi, Cisco's general manager for Saudi Arabia explained: "The Cisco 7920 forms an important part of our IP Communications portfolio and is a testament to the company's continuing investment in research and development. Each of our innovations has a clear and consistent objective - to extend both technology innovation and leadership to our customers around the world."

The new Cisco IP Phone 7902G and Cisco IP Phone 7912G join the Cisco IP Phone 7905G as the entry-level models in the broad Cisco IP phone portfolio. With a list price similar to that of traditional digital telephones, the new feature-rich IP phones extend the productivity and mobility benefits of Cisco IP Communications to a broader range of users. Cisco IP Communications benefits now reach deeper into large businesses and cover small and branch offices as well. Conveniently, the Cisco 7902G and the 7912G deliver the same in-line power and automatic configuration features as the entire portfolio of Cisco IP phones.

"The business case for implementing a Cisco IP Communications system is increasingly driven by measurable gains in end-user productivity," said Don Proctor, vice president and general manager for the Cisco Voice Technology Group. "Investments that increase the productivity of end users have a more compelling ROI than investments that only focus on IT support costs. If an enterprise makes an investment that increases the productivity of 5,000 end users by only 2 percent, that is like adding 100 more people to your staff."