To: foundation who wrote (24878 ) 7/23/2002 7:49:21 PM From: foundation Respond to re: Alice in GSM Fantasyland those operators who initially deploy Release ’99 of the 3GPP standard, including EDGE, will require an entirely new core network (perhaps a new RAN as well) if they want to offer Release 5 services (real-time multimedia services, VoIP) . The implication is that U.S. operators who are deploying GPRS today and EDGE next year will have to replace most of their network to deliver real-time voice services on EDGE. We also point out that the 3GPPhas not yet frozen the Release 5 specification, let alone completed the Change Request process, design work or interoperability testing. Release 5 is still several years from being commercially available and is not yet a proven technology...What the paper fails to mention is that these networks are EDGE Release '99 capable and not most likely not EDGE Release 5 capable . The paper also does not give any indication when EDGE handsets will become available or how much processing power is required in the handset to support VoIP. We submitted the question, but it was not answered."after carriers have evolved to an initial, remedial version of UMTSwCDMA. And EDGEfantasies will require the upgrades as well.
