November 16, 2004

Qualcomm and UTStarcom have introduced new wireless solutions that underline their efforts to extend their footprints in next-generation technologies.

UTStarcom said it has unveiled an end-to-end Internet protocol-based solution known as MovingMedia 2000 to allow operators in providing voice and data services to their end users.

The vendor also announced deals with two customers in Bangladesh and Angola. UTStarcom signed deals with OneTel of Bangladesh and Movicel of Angola.

"The transparent, distributed architecture of MovingMedia 2000 is a unique departure from the centralized architectures of all other traditional CDMA/CDMA2000 solutions," said Jack Mar, president of the CDMA division at UTStarcom.

Separately, Qualcomm said it has introduced a chipset that combines wideband CDMA and EDGE, including GSM/GPRS. The company said the chipset, known as MSM6255, will enable GSM operators to upgrade their networks to W-CDMA service. Qualcomm's GSM/GPRS/EDGE chipset is the MSM 6250.

The new product allows carriers to deliver a slew of multimedia services ranging from video to music.

"Because the MSM6250 and MSM 6255 chipsets are both part of the multimedia platform, our manufacturer customers will be able to re-use applications and decrease development time to achieve faster time to market," said Sanjay K. Jha, president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies.

Qualcomm said it also is teaming with other vendors to develop CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A network solutions.

Partners in the effort to date are Airvana, L.M. Ericsson, Hitachi Ltd., Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Corp., Nortel Networks Ltd. and Samsung Electronics.

Qualcomm said the various vendors have chosen its digital baseband modem for infrastructure and test equipment towards the Revison A efforts.

"With the higher speeds and lower latency of Verizon's DO Rev. A network, our customers will be able to increase productivity through faster file downloads and transfers, while ensuring privacy with advanced security and more," said Jim Straight, vice president of data and wireless Internet services for Verizon Wireless.

Source: RCR News