To: The Phoenix who wrote (37141 ) 12/16/1999 1:20:00 AM From: Mehrdad Arya Respond to of 45548
3Com Offers Best Delivery of Next-Generation Wireless Services By Dale Eliason Product Manager, Wireless As mobile devices fall in price almost daily and wireless data networks become faster and cheaper just as quickly, the mobile data communications industry is poised for enormous expansion and industry analysts are predicting a surge in wireless data use. Boston-based Yankee Group says the number of North American mobile data users will triple from 3.38 million users today to 10.64 million users in the year 2002. International Data Corporation forecasts the number of people using mobile phones to retrieve data will soar from 15 to 70 percent during the same period. In the face of such predictions, wireless service providers are adding new enhanced mobile data features to meet the demand. Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) service providers are now offering data access services. Some will expand their boundaries by becoming wireless Internet service providers (ISPs) or by offering corporate virtual private networks (VPNs) to mobile users. Such advances are enabling mobile users to enjoy conveniences such as Web browsing, e-mailing, faxing, and corporate intranet access.In the midst of the expansion, 3Com has become the leading purveyor of equipment suited to deliver these new enhanced features. 3Com?s Interworking Function (IWF) system for CDMA networks was not only the first solution for delivering circuit-switched data to mobile users, it is the only complete system for bridging the gap between wireless CDMA networks and wireline public switched telephone networks (PSTNs). Based on 3Com?s award-winning Total Control multiservice access platform, the IWF system enables CDMA carriers to provide circuit-switched modem-based data and fax services to CDMA wireless users. And with 3Com?s Quick Net Connect functionality, CDMA carriers provide mobile users with the ability to bypass modems entirely and establish direct, all-digital connections to the Internet or intranets. 3com.com