News | August 2, 2000

Global CDMA solutions center to display future of wireless technology

Source: Ericsson
<%=company1%> is launching its CDMA Solutions Center in San Diego, transforming technology vision into reality. The state-of-the-art facility showcases the power of CDMA and its ability to deliver content-rich applications that are driving wireless communications into the mobile Internet era. The company expects the center to attract a wide array of visitors from around the world, including leading operators and companies developing both applications and end user equipment.

As wireless operators begin to offer data services, consumers' expectations will continue to expand, changing the traditional image of wireless telephony as a means for voice communication to a means of advanced communications on multiple levels. Ericsson is committed to providing total system solutions so wireless operators can secure an advantage in this fiercely competitive marketplace.

"Through relationships with local software and content development companies, Ericsson is leveraging the high-tech resources in San Diego's telecom valley," said Ake Persson, head of Ericsson's CDMA Systems business unit. "Incorporating the applications the companies provide highlights how operators can rapidly deliver a range of proven services to their customers on an Ericsson CDMA network."

The center's fully functioning system highlights Ericsson's CDMA solution of equipment and applications. Visitors to the Center will see the company's new cdmaOne handset, the Radio Base Station locally manufactured in San Diego and applications such as:

  • WebOnAir
  • Streaming video
  • WAP
  • Wireless LAN
  • cdma2000 Packet Core Network
Some of the local third-party applications visitors can see in the center are:
  • Digital Paths LLC (Stanton, CA), provides unconstrained access to all available Internet content for users of mobile appliances such as Internet-ready smart phones and personal digital assistants. The company's wireless products combined over a CDMA system transforms conventional Web pages to "device-friendly" formats on a variety of mobile appliances.

  • Go2 Systems Inc. (Irvine, CA), originator of Go2, a location-based directory and information services system designed for the Internet and wireless devices, will debut its WAP-enabled suite of enhanced wireless Web services relevant to the mobile customer via Ericsson's WAP gateway.

  • PacketVideo Corp. (San Diego) will demonstrate its MPEG-4 compliant wireless multimedia software. This streaming video application provides mobile users with access to full-motion news and financial stories, sports highlights, short entertainment clips, weather and traffic reports, home or work security cameras, from any location.
Edited by Ellen Jensen
Managing Editor, Wireless Networks Online