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November 2002 -
Alcatel officially opened its 3G Reality Centre for
the Benelux in Rijswijk, the Netherlands. This facility
is the first fully functional 3G/UMTS system in the
Benelux and the newly born member to Alcatel's worldwide
3G Reality Centre program.
The
3G Reality Centre offers Alcatel and its partners, including
local content and applications providers, a live and
comprehensive end-to-end environment for the development
and testing of advanced mobile applications and data
services, in the field 3G/UMTS. Such Centres are already
operational in Kuala Lumpur, Lisbon, Malmö (Sweden),
Paris, Shanghai, Taipei and now also in Rijswijk (The
Netherlands). Additional 3G Reality Centres will be
operational by the end of 2002, thanks to 3G UMTS pilot
networks installed by Alcatel in Stuttgart (Germany),
Vimercate (Italy), and by first quarter of 2003 in Australia,
Japan and Korea.
The
Alcatel 3G Reality Centre in Rijswijk will make available
to the telecommunication industry in the Benelux practically
everything revolving around 3G - from the latest data
transfer of know-how and incubation of expert personnel,
to applications and services. Visitors will personally
experience indoor as well as outdoor 3G/UMTS communications
with voice in circuit mode and data and high-speed video
images in packet mode, in full compliance with UMTS
3GPP standards. Whether for international videophony
calls between two 3G handsets, for web browsing, access
to online information, image transfer, video streaming
& downloading, and even transfer of live video.
Alcatel
installed in Rijswijk its complete Evolium(TM) solution
including the UTRAN (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network)
radio systems, the Core network, as well as the associated
Radio Network Controller (RNC) and a dedicated Application
Service platform. The radio systems, which include the
UMTS base stations (Node B) are developed and produced
by Evolium SAS, the joint venture between Alcatel and
Fujitsu.
"The
opening of our 3G Reality Centre in the Benelux today,
shows the importance Alcatel places in the Benelux market.
I envision that the Centre will help facilitate the
sharing of Alcatel's expertise and experience in 3G/UMTS
technology worldwide amongst our partners and content
developers in the Benelux. This will result in a win-win
situation for all parties and accelerate the arrival
of the 3G/UMTS era", declared Marc Rouanne, President
of Alcatel's Mobile Networks activities.
Marco
Huberts, Director Distribution Unit Benelux, added,
"The 3G Reality Centre in Rijswijk offers our partners
who provide mobile services in The Benelux, a unique
opportunity to work in a genuine 3G/UMTS environment.
This will significantly accelerate the development of
new mobile applications and solutions. No other telecommunication
supplier offers this wide range of commercial solutions
and a turnkey platform as we do worldwide with our 3G
Reality Centres".
The
3G Reality Centre in Rijswijk is running on the latest
Alcatel Evolium(TM) 3G equipment and solutions, leveraging
Alcatel's expertise in GSM, GPRS, and EDGE as well as
in ATM and IP technologies, with the advanced experience
of Fujitsu as supplier of NTT DoCoMo, which has a UMTS
commercial network in service in Japan since October
2001.
SOURCE
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