REPEATING/Alcatel Delivers Mobile Internet with Evolium Base Station and Broadband Wireless Access at WIRELESS 2000
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2000--
Company Spotlights Field-Proven GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, Broadband
Wireless Access (LMDS) and Intelligent Network Solutions
Focusing on providing carriers with field-proven solutions that are part of a logical migration to powerful "Third-Generation" (3G) mobile internet applications and technologies, Alcatel today introduced its Evolium(TM) Multi-Standard Base Station into the United States.
At WIRELESS 2000 (Booth #5547), Alcatel will showcase its world leading mobile Internet technologies, including General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), and Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS).
Broadband Wireless Access (LMDS), Intelligent Network (IN), and signaling technologies, based on Internet Protocol (IP) will also be highlighted.
"The need for operators to grow their mobile network infrastructure to handle Internet and multimedia information, including adding data functionality, deploying new services and securing network traffic, has become critical to their success," said Krish Prabhu, Chief Operating Officer, Alcatel Telecom. "Alcatel's EVOLIUM and IN platforms allow mobile operators to profit from implementing a circuit or packet-based 3G solution to make the mobile Internet a reality, while continuing to leverage their current infrastructure investments."
The Road to the Mobile Internet
The road to the mobile Internet begins with GPRS. GPRS allows today's GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network operators to provide mobile Internet-based services at higher transmission rates than ever before.
Alcatel's GPRS enables operators to introduce Internet services quickly and cost-effectively, while preparing the network and the market for the Internet and multimedia wave of tomorrow, with flexible solutions that scale to meet rapidly shifting customer demand.
This technology, as part of an end-to-end solution that includes terminals, radio and core network elements and services, is ready for commercial deployment today. Alcatel has successfully rolled out several GPRS networks in France, Germany, Austria, South Africa and China. The EVOLIUM GSM/GPRS product range is now available for the PCS 1900 market with a full support team in the US.
As the mobile Internet grows, so will the need for higher data speeds to transmit multimedia voice, data, images and video. These speeds will be achieved through the deployment of EDGE technology. EDGE provides a common solution interface for the GSM world and the Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) standard in the U.S.
Alcatel's EVOLIUM radio solutions are designed to integrate data applications through GPRS or, with a simple software upgrade, through EDGE. The EVOLIUM platform is pre-configured to deploy UMTS, once it is readily available in the marketplace.
Broadband Wireless Access
The EVOLIUM LMDS Solution from Alcatel is a point-to-multipoint radio system operating in a 28/31 GHz frequency band, the frequency band in the U.S. and Canada. The EVOLIUM LMDS solution serves small and large businesses, including branch offices, small office/home office (SOHO) and some residential subscribers in dense, urban and suburban locations. It provides the service without having to install a "physical" wire. Among the types of services provided are Internet access, connections to Local Area Networks (LAN), PBX applications and videoconferencing as well as virtual leased line services.
Intelligent Network Solutions
Alcatel's scalable, versatile IN platform delivers critical services ranging from enhanced 800-number to wireless Internet services for wireless and wireline service providers worldwide. With Alcatel's IN technology, companies not only save the operational costs of merging network intelligence onto a single platform, but gain a highly scalable, single platform that can support IN voice (enhanced 800-number, prepaid, Home Location Register, Authentication Center) and data (packet-based services).
Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of EURO 21.3 billion ($25.0 billion), Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on Internet: http:/www.alcatel.com
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10:49 EST FEBRUARY 28, 2000 |
