Verizon this week launched a portfolio of fixed/mobile convergence products targeting the enterprise segment and drawing on the capabilities of both Verizon Business and Verizon Wireless.

The new products include PBX Mobile Extension, Mobile Conference Connection and Wireless Office, and are aimed at a global work force, said Kelly Brown, group manager of emerging services for Verizon Business. “We are seeing an increasingly mobile work force, with people not just working from home but traveling, having to be mobile—on campus as well as on the road, working from alternate places,” Brown said.

“You are seeing a lot of mobile substitutions for fixed line solutions,” she said. “Enterprises are encouraging employees to go mobile, and there is proliferation of mobile applications. They want to make work force communications ubiquitous and seamless.”

Verizon is providing converged fixed/mobile applications as well as professional services that mask technical complexities, Brown said.

PBX Mobile Extension enables enterprises with existing PBXs to extend those features over any wireless phone, enabling employees to have a single number and a single voicemail, she said. The Wireless Office solution is targeted at small and medium-sized businesses, said Andrea Caldini, executive director of business product development and management for Verizon Wireless. It allows companies to merge wireless and wireline services and do things such as closed user groups and call restrictions to prevent non-business calls.

In addition, different pricing plans can be developed that charge lower per-minute rates for some calls, such as those made on the business campus or calls made directly into the office, she said.