Ericsson Adds New Features To Mini-Link Product

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson (ERICY) Wednesday said it has added new capabilities to its Mini-Link TN microwave transmission family so that it now offers a complete, end-to-end transmission solution, optimized for the cost-effective rollout of mobile broadband.

The company said that key among the new features is high speed download packet access, or HSDPA, aggregation, based on a new aggregation unit, which helps operators optimize the handling of packet-based mobile broadband traffic.

It said that traffic aggregation is vital to the business case for mobile broadband services based on HSDPA, which delivers up to 14 megabits per second throughput to users, as it reduces the loading on, and therefore the cost of, transmission links behind the access network.

In addition to aggregation, Mini-Link TN also caters for increased capacity in mobile broadband networks by supporting double the previously available maximum plesiochronous digital hierarchy, or PDH, capacity and a new high-capacity, flexible interface towards radio base stations.

There is also a new access termination unit in the form of a small, cost-effective edge node that offers both E1 and Ethernet connections.

This enables mobile operators to increase capacity in their access networks to meet growing demand from traditional mobile subscribers, and gives them the option to move to ethernet when packet data traffic becomes more prevalent, Ericsson said.

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Posted to the site on 7th December 2005