Nortel
e-mobility services
Nortel Networks introduced a portfolio of subscriber services, called e-mobility services, that provide rapid, flexible deployment of leading-edge voice and data capabilities optimized for the Internet Protocol environment. The services include Wireless Prepaid, Group Conferencing, Smart Mobile Access, Wireless Voice-Activated Dialing, Mobile Messaging Gateway and Information Management Services. Its e-mobility platform is a part of Nortel’s plan for delivering wireless Internet products. www.nortelnetworks.com
Samsung
Watch phone, Internet phone
Samsung Electronics Co. introduced a CDMA-based watch phone, the SPH-WP10, which the company said is part of a market-segmentation strategy designed to respond to the nearly saturated market for wireless handsets in South Korea. The product combines the functions of a digital watch with that of a wireless handset. The SH-WP10 comes with a miniature duplexer, super-small base-band analog processor chip and a tiny fixed antenna. The product weighs 39 grams without the battery and 50 grams with the battery, and measures 67mm by 58mm by 20mm. It offers 90 minutes of continuous talk time and 60 hours of standby time. In addition, the watch phone comes with voice-activated dialing, phone directory, ear microphone and vibration alert.
Samsung also introduced a wireless Internet phone that is a combination of cellular phone, Internet access tool and PDA. The handset has a large 30mm x 70mm touch screen, offering a touch mail capability to send text messages and pictures. It features an electronic notebook, PC data interface, sound/character recognition and wireless fax. The memory can handle a total of 2,000 stored addresses, schedules for up to one year and as many as 100 memos at a time. The phone also provides an 80,000-word English-Korean dictionary, a 50,000-word Korean-English dictionary and an engineering calculator. ww.samsungelectronics.com
Glenayre Western Multiplex
4 x DS-3 radios
Glenayre Western Multiplex introduced two new 4 x DS-3 microwave radios, each with 180 Mbps of transmission capacity. The WM 6/180 and the WM 11/180 radios are fully loaded models of the company’s new expandable WM series licensed microwave radios. “Competitive radios are based on a maximum payload of only 3 x DS-3 capacity, so that a radio at 4 x DS-3 is an innovative concept for users,” said Graham Barnes, senior vice president of sales and marketing. “These new radios should find a ready market as the need for increased wireless capacity for voice and data continues to grow. For an expanding voice or data network, a fourth DS-3 channel at saturated 3 x DS-3 nodes can help preserve capital investments in existing infrastructure.” www.glenayre.com
Lucent
Wireless broadband
Lucent Technologies is offering the OnDemand family of wireless broadband systems, which uses radio microwave transmissions to rapidly deliver high-speed Internet and multimedia services to business customers. The system employs point-to-multipoint microwave radio links between a strategically located hub antenna and multiple dish antennas that are installed on the roofs or building exteriors at customer locations, said Lucent. The information reaches computer users through the enterprise’s regular local area network. The OnDemand platform incorporates Lucent’s portfolio of data networking, optical networking, switching and access products. www.lucent.com
Ericsson
Dual-band phone
In March at CeBIT ’99, Ericsson unveiled the R380 dual-band mobile phone with built-in personal digital assistant functionality including address book, calendar, voice note recorder and notepad. It also features hand-writing recognition, voice dialing and voice answering. The R380, which Ericsson said will be available in volume in early 2000, is based on the EPOC operating system and supports the Wireless Application Protocol.
www.ericsson.com
Motorola
Tri-band phone
Motorola introduced a portfolio of digital wireless devices at the CeBIT exhibition and promised to offer Internet-browsing capability on its entire line of digital mobile phones by 2000. The new product line includes what the company called the world’s lightest and smallest GSM phone and the first tri-band GSM phone, both for the European market. The L7089 tri-band phone operates on all three GSM frequencies and is designed to allow users to roam across Europe, Asia and Africa without switching handsets, said Motorola. The company also said it will make all its digital phones compliant with the WAP protocol as soon as interoperability standards for the protocol are secured. This means that consumers can expect to see the first Internet-browsing capabilities appearing on a Motorola GSM phone by the end of the year and across Motorola’s entire digital phone range in 2000, said Motorola. www.motorola.com
Centigram
SMS center software
Centigram Communications introduced its Centigram Short Message Service Center (C-SMSC), a software-only solution that enables carriers to cost effectively deliver SMS-based mobile data services. C-SMSC works with the Centigram Series 6 enhanced services platform and is compatible with all major wireless networks and standards deployed worldwide. www.centigram.com
Scandinavian Softline Technology
Push services
Scandinavian Softline Technology, a company specializing in developing and marketing software for wireless information and messaging services, offers its P405 individually profiled push services. This software package makes it possible for mobile telecom operators to offer their subscribers individually profiled “push” information services. Users access P405 via their mobile operator’s Web page. Subscribers set up their own individual profiles, specifying precisely the information that should be sent to their handsets and any associated conditions. Mikael.roos@softline.fi
Anritsu
Analyzer
Anritsu’s Microwave Measurement Division has introduced the Site Master S400A broadband one-port transmission line and antenna analyzer. Covering the broadcasting, PMR, SMR, AMPS/DAMPS, GSM 900, PCS 1900, ISM and WLL frequencies, the S400A is the only handheld instrument to address the 3.7 GHz WLL market, making it well-suited for testing cables and antennas used in Asia, South America and Europe, said Anritsu. The S400A can reject external RF interference, allowing the instrument to accurately measure antenna systems from the ground in dense RF environments. Covering the 25 MHz to 4 GHz frequency range, it features built-in distance-to-fault, return loss and cable loss measurement functions. Tel: (+1) 972-644-1777
Digital Microwave
Outdoor digital access radio
Digital Microwave launched its new DART microwave radio, which it says offers the latest in radio technology for low-cost wireless telecommunications transmission. The DART radio offers a single E1 or DS-1 data stream transmission and is designed for microcell/picocell and last-mile access requirements, according to the company. It offers a compact, all-outdoor design and connects directly to base station equipment via a single twisted-pair cable. www.dmcwave.com
ECI Telecom
Fixed wireless access
ECI Telecom subsidiary InnoWave Wireless Systems introduced an advanced wideband point-to-multipoint fixed wireless access system, WaveGain, which the company says offers high spectrum efficiency and a high capacity, which minimizes cost. WaveGain is the first fixed wireless system supporting voice and data services to meet the market’s increasing demands for wideband services, said ECI. www.ecitele.com
JP Systems
Messaging software
JP Systems announced the availability of its messaging software BeamLink 2.0 for users of Palm III, Palm IIx and Palm V connected organizers from Palm Comp
uting, a 3Com company. BeamLink 2.0 is the first software ever to enable infrared communications on the Palm V organizer through a two-way pager that
can also serve as a wireless modem, said JP. www.jpsystems.com
SAFCO Technologies
CDMA-based VoicePrint
SAFCO Technologies introduced a CDMA version of its Portable VoicePrint product, an automated and highly portable tool designed for measuring, testing and evaluating wireless communications systems, said SAFCO. In addition to CDMA, Portable VoicePrint supports the GSM and iDEN standard air interface technologies. www.salient3.com
Spike Technologies
Broadband delivery system
Spike Technologies launched the second generation of its PRIZM 2400 Broadband Delivery System. The PRIZM 2400X incorporates new enhancements to the company’s original point-to-multipoint broadband delivery system, delivering high-speed data, voice and video services to subscribers as far as 30 miles from the base station. And originally designed for the MMDS wireless cable TV band, the PRIZM 2400X covers all frequencies in the 2 GHz to 3 GHz band. Tel: (+1) 603-594-8856
RangeStar
Micro embedded antennas
RangeStar unveiled a remote monitoring antenna for its Performa family of embedded component antennas. For manufacturers offering remote monitoring solutions, the newest device is easily implemented into remote equipment as well as central monitoring facilities, said RangeStar. Embeddable solutions offer developers of wireless data systems a unique competitive advantage in developing the next generation of telemetry equipment, according to the company. www.rangestar.com
Uniden
CDPD modem
Uniden Multimedia said it has begun shipping a new portable, wireless communications Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) modem, the Uniden Data 2000. The modem is a battery-powered Type II PCMCIA PC card that works with most laptops, sub-notebooks or handheld computers that use Microsoft Windows 98, 95, NT and CE operating systems. www.uniden.com
Wavecom
GSM module
Wavecom introduced its WM2C miniature second-generation GSM module. Part of the company’s WISMO family, the WM2C is the same small size as its predecessor WM2A at 54mm x 32mm x 6mm, but with an added dual-band facility for use at GSM 900 or GSM 900. New features of the WM2C include lower power consumption and an enhanced speech facility using Tricode Full Rate, Enhanced Full Rate and Half Rate. www.wavecom.com
Itronix
Rugged mobile workstation
Itronix announced the T5200 handheld wireless mobile workstation. The T5200 is the first field service solution, powered by Microsoft Windows CE to offer fully integrated power management and wireless capabilities in a highly durable package that is half the size, weigh and cost of other rugged mobile workstations, according to Itronix. www.itronix.com
Optimay
GPRS protocol stack
Optimay is now offering its GPRS protocol stack software for manufacturers of GSM mobile handsets and data modules. Designed to be modular and portable, the Optimay GPRS software can either be used together with the Optimay GSM Phase 2 protocol stack or integrated with a customer’s existing protocol stack, said Optimay. This flexible solution allows manufacturers to adopt the new technology quickly and without investing time and costly engineering resources to stay ahead in the GSM market, according to the company. www.optimay.com
Irius
Voice pager
Irius Technologies announced its mobiDARC voice pager, which is a mobile, pocket-sized answering machine that can store up to 45 minutes of voice messages. It is the first product to employ the low-cost DARC (Data Radio Channel) technology using an existing FM infrastructure, said the company. Messages are recorded via the telephone on an automatic voice mail server. The voice messages are then digitized, compressed, sent over the air and decompressed dynamically by the voice pager, said Irius. www.amary.com/communiques/irius
MSI
Operations tools
Metapath Software International’s new Maxxer performance management tool is designed to maximize performance management for wireless networks. The Ceos mediation manager is a real-time call record collection and distribution system for improving operating efficiency, reducing time-to-market and adapting to customer needs. Ceer customer manager is a marketing software solution. And Cerve is a wireless service provisioning application to reduce time-to-market when introducing new services and activation systems and to lower the cost of managing transactions and system operations, according to Metapath. www.msi-world.com
