T-Mobile and Lucent to launch 3G UMTS pilot for secure services
January 20, 2003
Lucent Technologies and T-Mobile today launched a joint pilot project
to evaluate secure high-speed data services using 3G UMTS technology.
The pilot, which will involve enterprises in the Nuremberg region,
will demonstrate how business customers can benefit from secure,
high-speed data mobile services and integrated end- to-end enterprise
applications.
Under the agreement, Lucent will supply T-Mobile with its Secure
Mobile Data Solutions for Enterprises (SMDSe) offer, a pre-integrated
package of hardware and software designed to enable business customers
to use their laptop PCs or PDAs to access -- from any location --
all the applications they normally use with the same level of security
and performance they typically experience in their office.
A key component of this end-to-end solution is the 3GlobeTrotter
UMTS wireless modem PCMCIA card -- jointly developed by Lucent and
Option -- which supports high-speed data connections on laptops,
PDAs and other mobile devices. Late last year, Lucent and Option
completed the first data calls using the 3GlobeTrotter cards at
Lucent's labs in Nuremberg, where substantial development work on
the cards has been done.
Lucent's SMDSe offer also incorporates software tools that enable
an enterprise user to quickly and easily activate high-speed mobile
data services, and solutions to support seamless roaming from the
3G UMTS network to wireless local area networks.
"Already today our customers can easily access their data via
the GlobeTrotter wireless modem PCMCIA card for GPRS. Using 3G UMTS
and WLAN will help them do their work while on the move more easily,
quickly and efficiently," said Thomas Heilen, manager of product
management for T-Mobile.
Also included in the pilot network is Lucent's UTRAN -- comprised
of the Flexent OneBTS base station and Flexent Radio Network Controller
- as well as Lucent's core packet switching network offer, including
the Super Distributed Home Location Register that manages customer
information for both voice and 3G data services.
"The commercial deployment of secure high-speed mobile data services
will help T-Mobile offer a range of new capabilities to their enterprise
customers," said Carlos Mira, president of Lucent Mobility Solutions
in Europe.
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