UTStarcom demonstrates video transmission using EVDO Revision A

April 5, 2006

UTStarcom announced that it is demonstrating the industry's first live video transmission using EVDO Revision A (Rev A) wireless technology at the CTIA WIRELESS show in Las Vegas this week. The company believes the demonstration of streaming video and VoIP applications, which uses UTStarcom's new EVDO Rev A solution, confirms the technological viability of the standard for powering and delivering broadband wireless services and rich media content to wireless mobile devices. In addition, UTStarcom will be introducing new CDMA2000 4GV codecs at CTIA.

"UTStarcom has expanded on its distributed 1xRTT architecture to provide EVDO Rev A capabilities, which is designed to enable operators to offer a much faster network to their customers," said Jack Mar, president of CDMA division at UTStarcom. "With UTStarcom's new distributed EVDO Rev A solution, we expect that operators can offer higher-speed bandwidth for multimedia applications and allow end users to access multiple services at the same time from a single device."

EVDO Rev A Demonstration

The EVDO Rev A demonstration employs UTStarcom's new distributed EVDO Rev A solution, which is part of its MovingMedia 2000 suite of wireless networking products. The MovingMedia 2000 iCell PICO EVDO Rev A IP Radio Access Network (RAN) is designed to enable seamless indoor wireless coverage via cost-effective IP networks, providing a high-performance, cost-effective solution for operators seeking to offer indoor campus-wide roaming. The MovingMedia 2000 iCell Macro 1X and EVDO IP RAN is designed to enable ubiquitous wide-area coverage via IP networks and can be used in urban, suburban, and rural environments.

CDMA2000 4GV Codecs

UTStarcom will also be demonstrating the new CDMA2000 4GV codecs at CTIA. 4GV is the next generation 3GPP2 standards-based EVRC-B codec. 4GV is designed to allow service providers to dynamically prioritize voice capacity on their network as required.