Dubai January 20, 2003

Motorola, Avaya, and Proxim Collaborate on Cost Cutting Converged Wireless Communications Solutions

Companies Bring Together Cellular, Wireless LAN and IP Telephony
Technologies To Provide Seamless Roaming Between Enterprise and Cellular
Networks

Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT), Avaya Inc. (NYSE: AV), and Proxim Corporation
(NASD: PROX) today announced they will collaborate on the creation and
deployment of converged cellular, Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN), and Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony solutions that will deliver new levels of
communications mobility and network connectivity. These solutions will be
enabled by an array of new products including a Wi-Fi/cellular dual-system
phone from Motorola, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-enabled IP Telephony
software from Avaya, and voice enabled WLAN infrastructure from Proxim.

The jointly-developed, standards-based solutions will support contiguous
voice and data service to users across enterprise networks, public cellular
networks, and public hotspot WLANs based on 802.11 technology (commonly
known as Wi-Fi). The convergence of these technologies will enable
businesses to gain new cost savings, user efficiencies, and enhanced
communications capabilities.

Cost-savings can be achieved through reduced network management expenses,
lower usage charges and device consolidation. User efficiencies will result
from increased accessibility to the business network and greater mobility
through seamless wireless access to business networks, applications, and
information within or outside of a work campus.

"Motorola believes that tying together wireless LANs, IP Telephony, and
cellular technologies in a single handset will extend the mobility of the
cellular networks inside the enterprise, and provide the best available
access to the user," said Dan Coombes, senior vice president and general
manager for Motorola's Network Systems Group. "Both Avaya and Proxim are
industry leaders, and we eagerly anticipate working with them to create
integrated networks to provide everywhere-connectivity for our customers."

The new solutions will also provide enhanced communications capabilities,
including on-demand conference calling and speech access to key business
applications such as email, calendars and corporate directories.

"Avaya views this collaboration as a significant advancement in mobile
workplace communications," said Michael Thurk, group vice president for
Avaya's Converged Systems and Applications Group. "Companies are demanding increased business results from their communications networks. This converged solution is a natural extension to the way Avaya serves the
enterprise, with innovative MultiVantage capabilities such as
Extension-to-Cellular. Together, we will bring unprecedented value to an
organization's network by expanding employees' desktops beyond office walls
to virtually wherever an employee happens to be working."

The converged infrastructure solutions will tap into a new and widening
enterprise market that demands key technologies to boost the performance of
enterprise communications. "As the only wireless networking company offering integrated, end-to-end connectivity, we are big supporters of convergent solutions such as this," said Angela Champness, senior vice president and general manager of Proxim's LAN Division. "We have already integrated VoIP into our wireless WAN products and this is a logical next step in the development of our WLANs. Businesses will enjoy increased employee productivity and the opportunity for significant cost savings through convergent networks that can scale to their needs."

The IP Telephony application is enabled by Avaya MultiVantageT Software,
which provides reliable and scalable communications. Motorola will create
network Mobility Management components that control the hand-off between
local (WLAN) and cellular networks; and Proxim will provide voice-enabled
Wi-Fi WLAN infrastructure, quality of service software, and centralized
management systems to facilitate hand-offs between access points.

"There is a huge opportunity for this converged solution given the strengths
of the IP Telephony, WLAN and cellular markets," said Jeremy Duke,
President, Synergy Research Group, a market research firm based in Phoenix,
Arizona. "These three industry leaders together bring the expertise and the
vision required to bring this solution to market." Voice-enabled Wi-Fi WLAN infrastructure from Proxim and SIP-enabled communications applications from Avaya is expected to be made availableearly in 2003, establishing a ready base for converged communications. Trials of the joint solution are expected to begin in the second half of 2003.

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