Motorola Wins Japanese CDMA Upgrade Contract

Motorola has received orders for its CDMA2000 1X SoftSwitch from Japan's KDDI. The SoftSwitch provided by Motorola will be used as the core switch in KDDI's CDMA2000 1X network. In April 2002, KDDI began its nationwide deployment of CDMA2000 1X, a 3G cellular service, on Motorola's cdmaOne network. Since then, Motorola has played a vital role in building KDDI's wireless mobile network as the sole vendor of CDMA2000 1X RAN systems.

"To continue providing cutting edge solutions and services to our customers, we have been aggressively upgrading our network infrastructure. We expect that by replacing the existing circuit switches with the Motorola SoftSwitch, it will allow us to reduce operational costs on our network side," said Tadashi Onodera, president and chairman of KDDI Corporation.

The MSS platform has been deployed as a full-featured serving MSC in greenfield, expansion and legacy switch replacement environments. The ability to provide telecom carriers a smooth migration without negatively affecting existing systems is a key driver behind its continuing success. Today, MSS is already looking to the needs of 9 telecom carriers with contracted capacity to serve over 18 million subscribers from over 8 countries and territories worldwide."

Posted to the site on 19th July 2005