A new wireless client software to be announced by Cisco will extend a worker's desk phone functions to many different smart phones and handheld devices. Called Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator, the software will support BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS and BREW (Binary Runtime for Environment for Wireless) handsets, according to Barry O'Sullivan, vice president and general manager of IP communications at Cisco.

In all, Cisco intends to announce 12 new products and 30 enhanced ones under the heading of Cisco Unified Communications 6.0. New products will reduce the need for communications servers in a network and add resiliency, among other capabilities, O'Sullivan and users said.