Lucent Technologies says that it is working with AT&T Wireless to deploy a W-CDMA trial network in the greater Miami area to evaluate mobile voice and high-speed data services. Lucent already has achieved several key milestones in the project - its first 3G W-CDMA deployment in North America - including the successful completion of a series of voice and data calls on the network.
The network will incorporate Lucent's Flexent OneBTS base stations and core packet networking solution - which includes the Lucent Softswitch and data networking platforms from Cisco Systems, including the Cisco Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) and MGX 8000 Series Media Gateways. Lucent also is supplying AT&T Wireless with W-CDMA wireless PC modem cards, which support high-speed data connections on laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices.
The W-CDMA network will operate in AT&T Wireless' 1900 MHz spectrum, and will be based on an Internet Protocol (IP) architecture that can offer substantial increases in network efficiency, and support a wide variety of multimedia services.
While this is the first trial in North America, Lucent has additional 3G W-CDMA/UMTS pilot network deployments underway in Europe. Lucent says that it has deployed more than 80,000 spread-spectrum base stations for mobile operators worldwide. Spread-spectrum technology is the basis for 3G W-CDMA (UMTS) and CDMA2000 networks."
Posted to the site on 14th October 2003
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