UTStarcom enables end-to-end broadband services on 3G UMTS TDD
December 8, 2004
UTStarcom introduced its MovingMedia 6000 wireless broadband solution. UTStarcom's new platform turns a range of low-cost licensed frequency bands -- 1900- 1920MHz, 2010-2025MHz, 2500-2700MHz, and 3400-3600MHz -- into valuable assets that will provide a rapid return on a MovingMedia 6000 investment.
Mobile operators and wireless broadband service providers worldwide can deploy the solution today to offer high-value data services of up to 3Mbps per subscriber, enabling subscribers to access the network from home, work, a hotel room, or any other location. In the near future, operators will be able to use the MovingMedia 6000 solution to offer wireless Voice over IP (VoIP) and high-mobility data services.
MovingMedia 6000 is based on the UMTS TDD standard for 3G mobile networks, which TD-CDMA technology. The Moving Media 6000 Product line leverages UTStarcom's strategic partnership with IPWireless, the TD-CDMA core technology company. UMTS license holders with allocated spectrum can use the MovingMedia 6000 solution to offer ubiquitous broadband service to compete with Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and cable, and also offer high-speed mobile data services to complement existing Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) data service. Because it employs the same UMTS core as UTStarcom's W-CDMA MovingMedia 8000 solution, UTStarcom believes that the MovingMedia 6000 lowers the purchaser's investment risk and helps speed time to revenue.
"The MovingMedia 6000 platform offers operators the opportunity to use low-cost, unused spectrum to offer high-value, portable services that are up to ten times faster than what's typically available today via fixed-line DSL," said Jeff Paine, vice president of strategic marketing, UTStarcom. "Because our core is based on the proven UMTS TDD/TD-CDMA standard, our solution is available now. Service providers can deploy a MovingMedia 6000 base station and immediately start turning up a portable broadband data service. We believe that providers will get even more value from their investment in the near future, when they can offer mobile data and VoIP from the same platform."
MovingMedia 6000 Deployments Underway
The MovingMedia 6000 solution for portable broadband wireless is being deployed now by UK Broadband, a subsidiary of PCCW Communications (UK). The company also plans to introduce VoIP and mobile broadband data in 2005.
MovingMedia 6000 is also currently being trialed and evaluated by several operators in other regions of the world. Optus, the second largest GSM operator in Australia, has also announced it will evaluate the UTStarcom solution as part of its ongoing strategy to tap into new and emergent technologies that open up growth opportunities. Field trials for a wireless broadband capability will start in February 2005 in a Sydney suburb.
Easy, Familiar Deployment
MovingMedia 6000 deployment is similar to that of a cellular network, and cellular operators can leverage their existing and planned network infrastructure to deploy UTStarcom's solution. Because the MovingMedia 6000 complies with the UMTS standard, it can be co-located with UMTS FDD base stations and share cell site equipment, including antennas.
UMTS TDD enables ubiquitous, always-on broadband access via an efficient use of available unpaired 3G spectrum, a non-line-of-sight, multi-user detection technology that allows high-speed access to users within buildings and outdoors, in both urban and rural areas. Mobile operators with UMTS TDD spectrum and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) with access to licensed spectrum can both use the MovingMedia 6000 solution to offer portable and mobile broadband data service. The MovingMedia 6000 also provides them with a migration path to portable and mobile voice in the near future.
The MovingMedia 6000 architecture supports both centralized and distributed deployments. Because the product suite is based on familiar standards, it is compatible with the equipment employed by traditional 3G mobile operators, as well as by CLECs and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). MovingMedia 6000 end-user equipment is plug and play; subscribers can install their modems and software and get their new service up and running quickly.
MovingMedia 6000 Product Line
The end-to-end MovingMedia 6000 solution includes Radio Access Network (RAN) products, core network products, and Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). UTStarcom has a strategic partnership with IPWireless and employs the company's ASICS in its CPE products.
Radio Access Network (RAN) Products
MovingMedia 6000 RAN products offer UMTS TDD solutions in 5MHz or 10Mhz spectrum in licensed bands, including 1900-1920MHz, 2010-2025MHz, 2500-2700MHz, and 3400-3600MHz. While the Moving Media 6000 has an independent core network (see below), operators can also connect the Radio Access Network (RAN) to an existing 3G W-CDMA core network.
Core Network
This product suite controls and manages the RAN components, ensuring secure connection between the packet core and IP networks and providing mobility and session management in a 3GPP UMTS TDD network.
The MovingMedia SGSN6000 is a carrier-class serving GPRS support node that provides session management, traffic processing, and mobility management.
The MovingMedia GGSN6000 is a carrier-class gateway GRPS support node that ensures a secure connection between the packet core network and the IP network.
Customer Premises Equipment
The MovingMedia 6000 PCMCIA card provides a mobile broadband interface between a mobile computer and a wireless TD-CDMA network, allows consumers and business users to access the Internet at speeds of up to 3Mbps.
The MovingMedia 6000 Desktop Modem provides a low-cost, always-on alternative to wireline broadband data solutions such as DSL and cable.
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