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26th August 2005 - Nokia and Kineto Wireless, global supplier
of UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) technology, today announced
an agreement to address the area of convergence between fixed
and mobile networks and services in selected key customer
cases. In addition, the companies are currently engaged in
UMA trials with major operators and will continue to collaborate
on future network trials.
Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will incorporate Kineto's
UMA Network Controller into its network convergence solutions
for wireline and wireless operators. As part of the multi-access
solutions, this complements other elements in Nokia's powerful
end-to-end network convergence offering, which includes the
Nokia Unified Core Network for common service machinery, Operations
Support Services (OSS), multimedia services, service and network
integration, as well as world-class mobile devices.
UMA, a 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Program) standard,
is an access technology that allows a seamless handoff of
mobile voice and data from a wide area cellular network to
a wireless local area network (WLAN). The UMA standard defines
how mobile operators can turn home, office and public wireless
LANs into seamless extensions of their cellular networks.
With UMA, operators can deliver high-performance, low-cost
mobile voice, data and IMS services to subscribers over the
broadband Wi-Fi access networks, dramatically increasing mobile
service usage while decreasing costs for operators.
"Nokia's end-to-end convergence solutions - from network
equipment to terminals to applications - aim to enhance the
end-user's mobile voice and data experiences as simply as
possible," said Pekka Viirola, director, Convergence
Network Systems, Networks, Nokia. "By this cooperation,
both companies can join forces to establish a winning solution
to the emerging market for comprehensive solutions that yield
operational cost savings to communications providers."
"With the rapid adoption of UMA as a 3GPP standard for
cellular/Wi-Fi convergence, we are seeing tremendous demand
for UMA products and services from operators," said Rick
Gilbert, president and CEO of Kineto. "As a leading global
supplier of mobile and convergence solutions, Nokia is an
ideal partner for growing this market."
Previously, Nokia announced that Saunalahti, a leading Finnish
operator will be deploying a number of Nokia's convergence
solutions, including UMA technology from Kineto, to offer
services like VoIP and rich multimedia to both mobile and
fixed telephony customers.
The Nokia fixed mobile convergence vision embraces personalization
and mobility - where end-users have their own services on
their preferred end-user devices over any network. Nokia sees
that there are two key access technologies for operators to
implement this vision - UMA and Native IP Access. Nokia supports
both alternatives.
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