FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has been assisting the RITT Research Institute of Telecommunications, within China’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, to establish an internetwork communications protocol as China’s national standard. The Inter Paging Networks Protocol, IPNP, will allow paging terminals to communicate with roaming subscribers equipped with multifrequency pagers on China’s FLEX nationwide paging network.
The network is scheduled for deployment next year, said Motorola.
The company said the standard will make sophisticated, multifrequency messaging possible in China.
Under guidelines of the memorandum of understanding that Motorola signed with the MPT earlier this year, the company said it has been assisting China’s government to develop and establish all protocols required for China’s national backbone FLEX network.
IPNP is in part based on Motorola’s Wireless Interswitch Protocol, WISP, a TCP/IP based networking protocol, and is designed specifically to support multifrequency roaming FLEX pagers and manage key elements of the roaming network, said Motorola.
China’s MPT paging network will provide roaming to users in the country’s 27 provincial capital cities and Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjing and Chongqing. Roaming coverage will eventually expand to all cities in the 27 provinces.
