Device Arena

Motorola unveiled the latest addition to its Mobile TV devices portfolio – the Mobile TV DH02 – a personalized TV, multimedia entertainment on the go and navigation device featuring a touch screen user interface.

Building on the Mobile TV DH01 introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show and the Mobile TV DH01n introduced at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, the Mobile TV DH02 demonstrates Motorola’s ongoing commitment to enabling media mobility and accelerating personal media experiences. The new device features a touch screen user interface with intuitive click, drag and scroll icon-based menus. The inclusion of HSDPA/ GPRS back channel support gives MNOs (Mobile Network Operators) the potential to offer rich interactive services to their customer base.

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Motorola introduced the plug-and-play desktop CPEi 150 for indoor fixed WiMAX deployments, the latest 802.16e-compliant Wave-2 ready addition to Motorola’s award-winning WiMAX consumer product portfolio.

The new CPEi 150 features one data port, supports remote management and operates in the 2.5GHz band. As a true plug-and-play device, the CPEi 150 automatically connects to the WiMAX network and authenticates itself for easy setup. An intuitive graphical interface also lets users troubleshoot and personalize their services. The CPEi 150 is scheduled to be available for service providers during Q2 2008.

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Motorola announced the first successful packet-switched network handoff between CDMA EV-DO Rev-A and Long Term Evolution (LTE) technologies in a demonstration with VoIP calls and streaming video. Motorola’s handoff technique illustrates how service providers using CDMA-based networks today can smoothly integrate broadband OFDMA and IP packet-based wireless broadband technologies like LTE into their network, enabling the roll-out of more interactive services like HD mobile blogging and broadcasting, HD video-on-demand and online gaming.

Designed to encourage discussions and trials of high-performance, mobile broadband networks, Motorola’s demonstration highlights LTE’s potential for delivering multiple voice, video, data and wireless services with transparent mobility between LTE and legacy networks using multi-mode LTE/CDMA/EV-DO Rev-A enabled devices. The handoff also shows carriers interested in upgrading their networks the viability of deploying LTE while using their existing 3G network coverage and assets, without sacrificing service quality as consumers move between LTE and 3G network coverage zones.

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From access technologies, home networks, services and applications, and enterprise mobility, Motorola will showcase its personal media experience — including demonstrations of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) solutions — at CTIA Wireless 2008.

Visitors to Motorola’s booth #1806 at the Las Vegas Convention Center will see LTE experiences including:

High definition (HD) video blogging - HD video will be streamed live over LTE to an IPTV set-top box back home for family or friends to view

HD video over LTE – shows how HD movies and personal videos can be streamed over future LTE devices to continue the viewing experience on the move

CDMA LTE hand-over – an industry first demonstration

Online racing car game played live over the Motorola LTE network to demonstrate LTE low latency

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Motorola announced a new common wireless broadband platform that will be used to support both WiMAX 802.16e access points and the Long Term Evolution (LTE) evolved Node-B (eNodeB). The new common platform is physically smaller than the first generation WiMAX product, further reducing operators’ deployment and operating costs. Motorola’s flexible modem technology allows the common platform to be software configurable to support either WiMAX or LTE.

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Ericsson has been chosen as sole supplier by leading Mozambican operator mCel for the expansion and upgrade of its Mobile Packet Backbone Network solution (Mobile-PBN). The contract includes Redback’s SmartEdge products, and is set to boost network capacity and manage increased traffic growth.

Ericsson’s Mobile-PBN solution, which includes the Redback SmartEdge routers, delivers operator-proven IP infrastructure optimized to accommodate broadband packet data traffic growth, and transport for mCel’s already-installed Ericsson Mobile Softswitch Solution.

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Ericsson has been selected to expand and upgrade leading Pakistani operator Warid Telecom’s GSM/GPRS network. The move will enable Warid to enhance network capacity and quality for its expanding subscriber base.

Under the agreement, Ericsson will supply, install and commission core, radio, microwave and optical-transmission network equipment, and take responsibility for site acquisition and civil works. The contract also includes expansion of Warid’s existing Ericsson Mobile Packet Backbone Network (MPBN).

Ericsson will also provide network design and integration services. The equipment supplied under this contract will be managed under an existing agreement for managed services.

Marwan Zawaydeh, CEO of Warid, says: “By boosting our network capacity and quality, we are well-positioned to deliver our customers a richer mobile communications experience. This agreement represents an extension of our strategic partnership with Ericsson and builds upon Ericsson’s leading technology, global experience and strong local presence.”

Zibber Mohiuddin, Head of Ericsson Pakistan, says: “This contract reflects the strong regional growth of mobile telephony. It also shows Ericsson’s ability to support rapidly increasing subscriber numbers and to cater for increased capacity demands.”

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AT&T announced plans to increase the scope and resiliency of the company’s global network by joining a consortium to build a submarine cable network, named Trans-Pacific Express (TPE), that links Japan, mainland China, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.

TPE is a new, high bandwidth fiber-optic submarine cable currently being built by a consortium that now includes AT&T. The cable network can carry up to 5.12 terabits per second (Tbps) over a total of 18,000 kilometers. A China-U.S. route is scheduled to be operating by August 2008, followed by the launch of a Japan-China route in March 2009.

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AT&T announced a three-year $1.8 million network services contract with Broadway Bank, San Antonio’s leading independently owned bank. The agreement renews and expands a long-standing relationship between the two companies.

Broadway Bank, which has banking centers in San Antonio and the surrounding Texas Hill Country, will benefit from faster and highly reliable network services from AT&T. Under terms of the agreement, AT&T will upgrade Broadway Bank to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) and OPT-E-MAN® Ethernet services. The MPLS upgrade replaces Broadway Bank’s current services, which run over Frame Relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network platforms.

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Motorola announced that it is extending the reach of its field-proven Canopy wireless broadband system with the introduction of the 400 series of access points and subscriber modules in the 5.4 GHz spectrum. Based on Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology, which provides improved near-line of sight (nLOS) and non-line of sight (NLOS) coverage, the Canopy 400 series allows service providers and enterprise network owners to extend broadband network coverage into urban areas where obstructions and foliage have limited system expansion.

By leveraging OFDM technology in the access and backhaul layers, the Canopy 400 series significantly enhances overall network performance and reach. The modules offer higher throughputs, up to 21Mbps, and extended range, accompanied with GPS synchronization to mitigate self interference. The Canopy 400 series modules, part of the MOTOwi4™ Fixed Point-to-Multipoint portfolio, are now available in Europe, Middle East and Africa and soon in Latin America. North America availability is pending final FCC certification.

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