Motorola Inc’s Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a collaborative development and joint marketing agreement with Fujitsu Ltd that is designed to provide telecommunications carriers with a standards-based systems that provide wireless local loop connectivity to the public switched telephone network. Using the V.52 digital interface standard – which was developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and which is shortly expected to become an International Telecommunications Union standard – the duo plans to connect Motorola’s Code Division Multiple Access-based Wireless Local Loop system with Fujitsu’s Central Office Switching System or telephone exchange. The integrated system will be marketed globally by both companies. Bill Marsh, product manager for wireless access products at Motorola Cellular, said the agreement is looser than a strategic relationship, since the companies will also sell the independent components individually, and since the agreement is non-exclusive. Whether Mot orola is planning similar agreements with other manufacturers remains to be seen and determined, he said, although he added that we are always looking for other parties. The companies are aiming at availability in the first quarter of 1996, with final interoperability certification by the end of this year. The European institute has recommended the V5.2 standard as the digital interface between landline-based switching offices and wireless local loop systems, remote switch units, or PABXs.
