Motorola demonstrates IP video telephony over
MOTOwi4 Canopy® solution using IMS enable core; performs high-speed
rich media downloads at 3GSM World Congress
BARCELONA, Spain - 3GSM World Congress – 13 February 2006 – Motorola Inc.
(NYSE:MOT), a leading global provider of broadband wireless access solutions,
is showcasing its award-winning Canopy® solution at 3GSM World
Congress to perform high-speed, rich media downloads and IP video telephony.
Canopy is part of the MOTOwi4™ portfolio that also includes WiMAX, and Mesh
Solutions. In addition, an IP core network, customer premise equipment, handheld
devices, applications, an element management system and a full services
portfolio round out the offering. Combined with the Motorola IMS, MOTOwi4
products offer a path to seamless mobility and ubiquitous connections that
delivers a “personal broadband on-the-go.”
“Our MOTOwi4 branding encompasses a comprehensive platform of wireless
broadband solutions and services that enable our customer, the service
provider, to use multiple technologies to reach more of their customers. It's a
complete tool kit; they just pick the tool that works the best,” said Raghu Rau,
senior vice president, Global Marketing and Strategy, Motorola Networks.
The MOTOwi4 portfolio announced in July 2005 complements Motorola’s other
wireline and cellular broadband offerings, giving people more ways to stay
connected with fast and ready access to the information, entertainment and
people that are important in their lives. It is designed to meet the industry’s
need for greater bandwidth, simple networks and mobility, and to provide a full
scope of both fixed and mobile end user applications.
Key access networks in the MOTOwi4 portfolio include WiMAX, Canopy, backhaul,
and Mesh Solutions. MOTOwi4 Canopy is a proven broadband wireless access
solution that has been cost-effectively deployed in more than 100 countries –
including a countrywide deployment in Macedonia - and by more than 2,000
service providers since 2002 using 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies. In the
Macedonia deployment, an initial installation of more than 130 Canopy access
points at various schools now also serves consumers and businesses in 36 cities
and 170 villages. Altogether, that Canopy network has connected 360 primary and
100 secondary schools as well as 24 secondary school dormitories, 15 university
facilities, another 15 local government offices, and more than 1,000
businesses, bringing high-speed wireless connectivity to rural and urban areas
at price points that would not otherwise have been attainable.
Canopy technology, designed for unlicensed or managed spectrum, also enables
WiMAX services supporting VoIP and IP data applications at price points that can
meet customers’ business case requirements.
The MOTOwi4™ WiMAX portfolio will include 802.16e products designed to meet
WiMAX Forum™ certification based upon specific profiles to be developed by that
industry forum. Operating in licensed spectrum and standards-based following
IEEE 802.16 Rev e, Motorola’s MOTOwi4 WiMAX products are designed to permit
carriers to adopt the full scope of available fixed, nomadic, portable, and
mobile applications. The initial product, the MOTOwi4 UltraLight Access Point designed
for 3.5GHz and a fixed application, will be 802.16e compliant. It is expected
to be available for customer trials by the end of Q2 2006.
“We believe WiMAX based on 802.16e will be the dominant WiMAX standard, even
for fixed applications because it provides superior fixed wireless performance
and provides a path to full mobility, making it a better choice for most
operators,” Rau said. “We are committed to being early to market with WiMAX
products, enabling full support of trials and deployments with an end-to-end
solutions and services portfolio.”
The MOTOwi4 UltraLight Access Point and the associated line of subscriber
modules retain Canopy’s traditional easy installation, reducing build-out
expenses for operators compared to traditional wireless systems. It uses a
revolutionary all-IP network design that helps to reduce the cost of building
and maintaining a wireless system by minimizing the hierarchical architecture
used in legacy networks.
The MOTOwi4 backhaul solutions, with bit rates from 10 Mbps up to 300 Mbps,
provide secure, reliable, point-to-point IP connectivity that enables new
applications and services to be delivered where they have not been previously
or reduce the cost of an application to be deployed. In the U.S. without wireless
backhaul the WISP market would not exist, as the cost of running wire would be
too great. Backhaul products let operators reach new spaces by bridging and
extending voice and data networks, and backhauling cellular sites, point
-to-multipoint access systems and Wi-Fi hotspots. For example, these backhaul
solutions have been used to interconnect campus buildings and remote offices,
bridge enterprise voice and data, provide temporary and disaster recovery, and
as a wired extension or alternative.
The portfolio of MOTOwi4™ Mesh Solutions provide dedicated, secure connections
over public networks to support service providers who wish to serve public
works, public safety and public access environments. These self-forming,
self-healing, highly available networks provide fixed and mobile IP-based
wireless networks for area-wide coverage using WiFi (2.4GHz) and public safety
bands (4.9GHz).
“When it comes to delivering wireless broadband, Motorola has it covered. We
have end-to-end solutions and services, the technological expertise,
experience, global span and market presence regardless of which technology
meets their business need,” Rau said.
Source: Motorola press release
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