LU needs switches for CDMA networks - see below...
Wednesday September 10 10:07 AM EDT
Company Press Release
Source: Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies Enhances its CDMA Offering With Flexible Options To Manage
Growth in Mobile and Fixed Services
DALLAS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) today announced enhancements to its widely
deployed code division multiple access (cdmaOne(TM)) wireless platform to enable network operators to build
upon their momentum by cost-effectively adding more mobile subscribers, optimizing their network for fixed
services, and stimulating even more usage.
``These enhancements, coupled with a new suite of wireless professional services, are specifically addressing new
growth opportunities available to network operators who deployed Lucent's cdmaOne platform,'' said Scott
Erickson, vice president of marketing and business development for network wireless systems. ``Lucent's
switch-based network architecture gives service providers an advantage because of the flexibility it offers them
in profiting from the overwhelming success of their new cdmaOne networks.''
Specifically, Erickson cited the following options:
An effective five-fold increase in capacity without additional base stations, thanks to a new Enhanced
Channel Unit (ECU) circuit pack
Hardware and software modifications that provide up to six 1.25 megahertz (MHz)-wide radio carriers
without additional base stations
A combination of the ECU and multiple carrier enhancements, enabling operators to realize an effective
ten-fold increase in capacity which can be cost-effectively leveraged for new fixed wireless services
Fixed wireless applications which make use of the network efficiencies inherent to cdmaOne technology
and take advantage of Lucent's new Enhanced Variable Rate Voice Coder (EVRC)
Network optimization and other professional services specially geared for established, fast-growing
network providers.
Adding these enhancements to Lucent's networks is easily accomplished. For example, the higher-density ECU
circuit pack replaces an existing two- channel pack. The EVRC requires no additional base station hardware, and
since voice coding is centralized at the mobile switching center, operators are able to select either the virtual
landline-quality 13 kbps voice coder or the EVRC for optimum resource utilization.
Two Lucent customers have applied these modular improvements in different ways. Shinsegi Telecomm recently
marked the activation of its 100,000th regional customer in Pusan. ``We are extremely impressed with the
capacity growth options of the Lucent cdmaOne system,'' said Ryu Daebee, the company's public relations
director. ``We have added a second carrier throughout our Pusan regional network and are processing over 1.2
million calls a day on the Lucent system. Lucent has been able to address our unique needs in cost- effectively
managing the explosive growth of our subscriber base.''
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Since Lucent's cdmaOne networks use the same proven and reliable 5ESS(R)- 2000 switching platform deployed
for landline networks, wireless carriers can now take advantage of the wireless call-handling increase to market
fixed wireless services that mimic traditional landline features. This is an approach taken by Centennial de
Puerto Rico, which has begun promoting its wireless ``Home Phone,'' an ordinary phone look-alike offering such
landline features as one touch redial, call transfer, call waiting, three-way calling and voice message retrieval. At
the conclusion of a recent pre-launch service trial, Rudy Graf, president of the company stated: ``Between our
aggressive pricing package and the landline quality of speech, our customers were elated with the service, and
virtually refused to let the trial end because they wanted the service to continue.''
Lucent Technologies (LU) designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and private networks,
communications systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronics
components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of the company. For more information about
Lucent Technologies, headquartered at Murray Hill, N.J., visit our website at lucent.com.
cdmaOne is a trademark of the CDMA Development Group. |
