Lucent reduce cost of 3G network

February 14, 2006

Lucent Technologies unveiled the Lucent Base Station Router (BSR), a Bell Labs innovation that integrates key components of 3G mobile networks into a single network element, thus "flattening" what is typically a more complex architecture.

By combining a base station, radio network controller and core network router functionalities into one system, the Lucent BSR can dramatically simplify and reduce the cost of operating IP-based mobile networks, cut the cost of upgrading 3G networks - including HSDPA and CDMA2000 - to support high speed data services, and noticeably improve the quality of service as perceived by subscribers.

Designed with data-intensive IP services in mind, the Lucent BSR - especially when paired with Lucent's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution - forms the heart of a more simple, flexible and efficient network architecture that can better support next-generation converged services such as voice over IP, broadcast/multicast and wireless broadband services.

"Lucent's Base Station Router will help mobile operators extend the value of their 3G network investments by helping them prepare for the evolution to IMS-based multimedia applications, and enable them to cost-effectively meet growing customer demand for high-speed data services," said Mike Iandolo, president of Mobility Access Solutions for Lucent Technologies' Network Solutions Group. "The Lucent BSR will enable operators to fill in coverage gaps more quickly and at lower cost, and introduce new mobile broadband and IP services and expand into new markets, all while offering the benefit of seamless access to the broader 3G network."

Lucent is demonstrating a UMTS version of the Lucent BSR at the 3GSM World Congress trade show and exhibition in Barcelona, Spain (Feb. 13 - 16).