To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (26000 ) 4/3/1999 7:47:00 PM From: Ruffian Respond to of 152472
Lucent> A I R I N T E R F A C E S Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Network Offering | Benefits | How It Works | Handoffs Lucent Technologies Leads in CDMA Implementation Lucent Technologies is in the forefront of implementing cdmaOne™ – the broadest band digital technology worldwide. As the market leader, Lucent is building over 100 different CDMA networks around the world – including systems in China, Thailand, South Korea, and Indonesia – for 26 different customers. In North America, Lucent leads all vendors with over a 60 percent market share of all CDMA PCS networks and over a 50% share in Cellular. Lucent is also leading in implementing IS-95 CDMA as the broadest band (and only) digital technology to be deployed at multiple spectrums worldwide: 850 Mhz, 1.9 Ghz, 1.85 Ghz. By the end of 1997, over 10 million calls per day were being processed over Lucent Technologies' CDMA systems. Lucent Technologies also has a CDMA-based fixed wireless solutions. Lucent's FLEXENT™ Wireless Local Loop platform is based on cdmaOne, enabling carriers to offer any and all subscriber handsets, terminals and third-party value added services designed to meet the cdmaOne standards. The AirLoop® Wireless Local Loop, uses a proprietary CDMA, Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) technology that ensures clear voice connections and interference resistance, as well as providing high signal security. Lucent's 3G enhancements to its commercial IS-95 CDMA networks, available in mid-1999, will double voice capacity and battery life, and provide data rates up to 144 kbps. The Lucent Technologies IS-95 CDMA platform, which includes the world-class 5ESS-2000® AnyMedia™ Platform at the heart of the MSC, is open and standards-compliant. This makes it possible to extend soft handoff universes to provide a virtually unlimited network reach by making inter-MSC soft handoffs possible through the connecting MSCs via ATM. Lucent Technologies' network-centric approach to CDMA makes it more than an "air-interface." It is an entire networking solution, allowing providers to offer a menu of fixed and mobile wireless and wireline applications from a single network. As a key member of the CDMA Development Group (CDG), Lucent Technologies leads the way in developing a consistent set of technical requirements for CDMA to ensure complete interoperability among CDMA systems and digital cellular phones, and a graceful migration to Third Generation (3G) wireless services. More information is available about Lucent's CDMA and Flexent offerings. Learn more about Lucent's AirLoop Wireless Local Loop offerings.