FMC - Nokia dualmode handsets hitting the market

Nokia's second showing on this blog. The voiploser is impressed! Here's some real examples of dual-mode handsets that will be hitting the market in Q1 2006. The handsets starting to hit the market is a solid step forward.

For the enterprise/business market perspective - my primary interest with this development is the how the service is going to be enabled. There must be a FMC-enabled infrastructure to support handsets like these - especially for features like UMS, live call handoffs, etc. Is that infrastructure going to be part of the IT department's IP-PBX infrastructure, or in the Service Providers core? I would argue that the most logical place for that would be within the Service Provider's core. There will be many deployments on a premise with Avaya-base voice infrastructure, but having a IP-PBX be the pivot point for calls between networks just doesn't make sense to me. Time will tell....