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13th September 2004 - The Nokia MSC Server System,
Nokia's new voice core network for 2G and 3G, has reached
the volume delivery stage, and volume deployments of
the solution are taking place worldwide.
The MSC Server System brings operators significant savings
in the delivery of voice minutes by reducing the cost
of building and operating mobile networks. The system
is already used for live commercial voice traffic by
leading operators in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Nokia is the first vendor to provide a 3GPP Release
4 compliant MSC Server System that fully handles GSM/EDGE
and WCDMA services in the same network elements, which
means that migration to combined GSM/WCDMA networks
can be accomplished cost-efficiently. Nokia's solution
is also fully backwards compatible with GSM/EDGE and
Release 99 WCDMA specifications and interfaces.
"The Nokia MSC Server System is a perfect solution
for core network optimization, bringing significant
cost-savings for operators. At the same time, it offers
long-term investment protection, and will play an important
role in networks compliant with 3GPP Release 5, Release
6 and Release 7 specifications," says Juha Äkräs,
Senior Vice President, Core Networks, Networks, Nokia.
The Nokia MSC Server System allows operators to concentrate
call control to larger centers, while distributing switching
functions to locations close to traffic hot spots. It
also enables a safe and standardized way to implement
carrier-grade Voice over IP (VoIP) service in mobile
networks. The MSC Server System brings considerable
savings in operating expenditure for voice in both 2G
and 3G networks, and enables significant cost-efficiencies
also to operators with a pure GSM/EDGE circuit core
network using TDM point-to-point connections.
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