From the 'other' Q thread courtesy ...qdog:
Monday October 4, 5:31 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Lucent Technologies
Lucent Completes Calls Over Wideband Radio Platform Designed to Evolve TDMA
to Third-Generation (3G) Services
Live Debut at World Telecom '99
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU -
news) today announced the successful completion of the first call on a prototype
wideband radio platform designed to help network operators dramatically increase
the call-carrying capacity and data speeds of digital wireless networks which use the
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) format.
The Flexent© Wideband Radio prototype will be publicly displayed for the first time
at the Lucent Technologies Stand at World Telecom '99, Oct. 10-18 in Geneva,
Switzerland. (Hall 1, Stand 4021)
Developed by Bell Laboratories, Lucent's research and development arm, the
Wideband Radio Platform is designed to preserve investments made by TDMA
operators while enabling them to gracefully evolve to third generation (3G) wireless
services. The platform is both evolutionary and revolutionary because it offers
operators the flexibility to use software controls for dedicating any part of their
licensed spectrum for standard TDMA 30 kHz voice channels or to higher-capacity
200 kHz channels for high-speed data services. The 200 kHz channel structure is
consistent with the Global Platform for Mobile Communications (GSM) digital
standard.
This next generation basestation will preserve service providers' current investments
in the IS-136 TDMA standard technology, but also has the ability to support EDGE,
an emerging standard for high speed packet data that will be common to both
TDMA and GSM networks. EDGE technology, or Enhanced Data rates through
Global Evolution, is envisioned as a common high bit-rate Platform that will afford
GSM and TDMA users the ability to send and receive wireless data at nominal rates
of at least 384 kilobits per second.
``The TDMA Flexent Wideband Radio Platform provides unprecedented voice
capacity and high speed packet data capabilities in a single basestation' noted Mary
Chan, Lucent's TDMA product realization vice president. ``This is consistent with
our commitment to help network operators gain greater efficiencies from their
investments in all of Lucent's 2G network platforms as they prepare for 3G services.'
The TDMA Wideband Radio prototype will be displayed alongside other 3G systems
under development by Lucent -- including prototypes which employ two formats of
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) established for Global 3G CDMA networks.
Lucent was first to announce projects with customers on four continents to develop
3G Platforms that are compatible with the major 2G technologies the company
supplies today -- TDMA, CDMA and GSM.
Lucent Technologies supplies mobile and fixed wireless communications systems that
offer global service providers standards-based solutions for serving the information
needs of consumers and enterprises. Headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., Lucent
designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks,
communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone
systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development
arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the
company's web site at lucent.com.
SOURCE: Lucent Technologies |
