MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG has said it will provide cdma2000 as part of its core network offering, although it will not involve the backhaul or radio access network.
The company said the offering will be integral to its Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem, which is a radio-access independent add-on to the core network, said Florian Kreutz, press manager at Siemens Information and Communications Mobile.
Nokia Corp. made a similar announcement at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show in New Orleans recently.
Kreutz said the company’s offering will be available in the middle of 2004, adding that its IMS product also complies with EDGE and wideband-CDMA, which it says constitute the focus of its next-generation plans.
He explained the offering could be overestimated since the company’s main strategy is not CDMA-oriented, although it will seek CDMA carriers who would want to migrate to UMTS.
He described the benefits from the product as “small in terms of revenues.”
