Live 3G UMTS Demo

Lucent demonstrated how business customers can access company applications, retrieve software updates from the Intranet and Internet or use super-fast data services while on the move using 3G UMTS technology. Lucent used these live demonstrations to emphasise its “data-first” UMTS strategy, geared towards the demands of business customers.

Inset : UMTS expert Franz-Josef Guenster explains the functionality of Lucent´s 3G PCMCIA card, which enables secure, high-speed data services for business customers.

“As we enter the third generation of mobile communications, we see professional users as the first and most significant customers who will provide increased service provider revenue opportunities,“ said David Poticny, president of Lucent Technologies’ Mobility Solutions Group in Europe.

Live UMTS demo at the T- Mobile stand ( held at CeBit 2003 Germany )

Lucent and the largest mobile telephony provider in Germany, T-Mobile, demonstrated high-speed, secure data services for business customers at the T-Mobile stand. In a live presentation, the companies demonstrated how a business customer, using a laptop computer equipped with a 3GlobeTrotter UMTS wireless PC modem card -- jointly developed by Lucent and Option -- can access T-Mobile’s mobile portals.

With the Mobile Access Portals, employees can quickly and easily access their company intranet, whereas with the Mobile Service Portal, they can access important office applications such as e-mail and calendar functions while on the move. These portals can be accessed now using GPRS terminals, however, UMTS provides considerably higher data rates. As a result, company videos, photos, documents, company-wide applications or presentations can be conveniently retrieved and processed up to nine times faster than is possible on the GPRS network.

“The live high-speed demonstration at CeBIT demonstrated the progress we are making in our UMTS initiative with T-Mobile,“ said Dr. Werner Irler, Global Accounts director for T-Mobile at Lucent Technologies. “We want to make it easier for business customers to work while on the move, making the ‘mobile office’ even more productive.“
Lucent is currently deploying a UMTS test network in Nuremberg in order to test secure, extremely high-speed data services with T-Mobile’s business customers.

Joint presentation at the Lucent stand
Along with other demonstration participants, Lucent presented its solutions to support the mobile office of the future at its own stand.

HSB Systemhaus demonstrated how quickly applications, operating systems and software updates can be distributed via UMTS using the software ON Command. This solution manages programs on desktops, servers, mobile PCs and handhelds. ON Command helps reduce support costs and optimises system management,“ said Rudolf Limmer, managing director at HSB Systemhaus. “With UMTS, this capability can be taken advantage of remotely. This opens up new possibilities for companies to ensure that their field staff has access to the latest technology and information to help them do their jobs more effectively.“

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