CANNES, France—Nokia Corp. stamped its feet at the 3GSM World Congress with a series of announcements ranging from open architecture, live demonstrations and Internet Protocol mobility networks.
Nokia introduced its Nokia MetroSite Piccolo wideband CDMA base station; the Nokia Advanced Indoor Radio for W-CDMA; the Nokia RealTilt for W-CDMA and the Nokia mPosition for W-CDMA.
“These advanced solutions enhance the operator’ revenue potential and reduce the network capital, implementation and operating expenditures,” said Eero Vallstrom, vice president and general manager, WCDMA RAN at Nokia Networks.
For All-IP mobility networks, the Finland-based vendor rolled out a new set of products called the Nokia FlexiFamily platforms, which are based on open standards. They include the Nokia FlexiServer, which include the Nokia FlexiServer and the Nokia FlexiGateway platforms.
“Gradually, a major part of our networks will be built on top of the FlexiFamily platforms,” said Ari Virtanen, vice president, network platforms at Nokia Networks.
The telecom equipment maker also issued two news releases about open architecture. The first was a module technology based on open interfaces, which the company pledges to share with other vendors. The other release was an open IP base station architecture for next-generation radio-access networks supporting multiple mobile network standards.
“Nokia is inviting other industry players, infrastructure vendors and module suppliers to join it in forming a special interest group to drive the initiative,” said the company in a statement.
The company also staked its mettle in the service solutions arena with two announcements, the Nokia GPRS Extended Network Survey and the Nokia Dynamic W-CDMA Simulation Consultancy, for operators.
“These new service packages reinforce the company’s commitment to enable networks to deliver improved speed, capacity and service performance with enhanced quality of service for GPRS and W-CDMA,” Nokia said.
In collaboration with Omnitel Vodafone, Nokia demonstrated what it described as the first call in an end-to-end All-IP mobile network.
