W.F. apparently the Total Control is an extremely valuable assets inherited from USRX. It's a strong product to compete with asnd and cisco. It can also do voip very well. Without this product, coms would not be able to do businesses with ISPs. coms is positioning it to be a carrier class product that's going to jump from talking to 56K modems to talking between IP phones.
The following is a newspage.com article about the use of a Total Control Remote Access concentrator :
SIEMENS: Market trial between T-Mobil,
Unwired Planet & Siemens
March 30, 1999
HANNOVER, Germany at CeBIT'99, M2 PRESSWIRE via NewsEdge
Corporation : * Innovative Wireless Internet Services through
Integration of WAP Functionality
Siemens' Information and Communication Networks Group, Munich,
and T-Mobil, Bonn, together with Unwired Planet, Inc., Silicon Valley
today announced a field trial with the integration of a WAP (Wireless
Application Protocol) compatible soft- ware platform from Unwired
Planet into the GSM Infrastrcture at T-Mobol. The aim of the market
trial the common development of systems and innovative applications
based on WAP. The first presentation of these new Internet services
was shown at CeBIT 1999.
In the market trial, Siemens is integrating the UP.Link Server from
Unwired Planet within the GSM network of T-Mobil, in order to offer
optimized access for wireless devices to new information services
hosted on the Internet. The microbrowser phone and network
platform enables access across the Internet to special services
offered by T-Mobil and Siemens during the field trial. In this role,
Siemens delivers a turnkey end-to end WAP solution, from the
services and infrastructure to the GSM mobile phones. Furthermore,
Siemens' partner 3Com provides the Total Control Multiservice Access
Platform as Remote Access Server and Gateway between the Mobile
Network Infrastructure and the IP world and allows WAP-enabled
mobile phones and terminals like Siemens' new mobile phone S25 and
3Com's Palm-Organizer-Family to be used within the presentation at
CeBIT.
The WAP platform supplied by Unwired Planet, assures quick access
to Web sites optimized for display on the screens of mobile phones
and terminals. With WAP, customers can access not only the classical
Internet services such as sports, news, and email, from existing Web
servers and data bases, but also network specific information, i.e.
billing information, call control and over air activation of services from
trusted Web servers within the network.
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) defines the standard for the
purposeful retrieval of Web- based information, giving mobile phone
users interactive, efficient and simple access to key information
services on the World Wide Web. The WAP services can also be
combined with other Intelligent Network (IN) services and provide an
excellent compliment to GSM Phase 2+ and GPRS data service
enhancements. Unwired Planet, Siemens and T-Mobil are all members
of the WAP Form.
About T-Mobil
T-Mobil (Deutsche TelekomMobilNet GmbH) is a hundred percent
subsidiary of Deutsche Telelcom. T-Mobil is headquartered in Bonn. In
Germany, it is operating the digital GSM-network T-D1 which is
currently used by some 5.9 million customers.
About Unwired Planet
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Unwired Planet, Inc.
is a growing pre-IPO company and leading international supplier of
open standards-based sellers and microbrowsers to the wireless
industry. UP delivers a complete WAP- ready product line, including
microbrowser, server, phone application suite and software
development kit. The UP.Link Platform enables mass-market mobile
phones running UP.Browser to access Internet- and intranet- based
applications and services, quickly and cost efficiently. UP products
support multiple airlink protocols, with implementations for GSM,
TDMA, CDMA, PDC, PHS and CDPD. The privately held company has
offices in London and Tokyo. Visit www.uplanet.com or
www.uplanet.co.uk for more information. Unwired Planet is a founder
member of WAP and currently holds the chair of the forum.
About Siemens, Information and Communication Networks
Group
The Siemens Information and Communication Networks
Group was established on October 1, 1998 as part of the
restructuring of the Siemens information and communication
activities. Information and Communication Networks has around
60,000 employees and sales of about DM 24 billion, making it one of
the world's leading suppliers of end-to-end solutions for voice, data
and mobile networks. Information and Communication Networks
provides products, systems, solutions, servicing and support for
setting up, operating and maintaining complete corporate and carrier
networks. It also offers ancillary services ranging from network
planning and financial consultancy through startup support to user
training. Being one of the worlds leading suppliers, Siemens has
already provided more than 110 network operators in 62 countries
with GSM technology. Further information on this Siemens Group can
be found on the Internet at siemens.com.
<<M2 PRESSWIRE -- 03/29/99>>
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