The joint solution will be developed by integrating the Lucent Flexent CDMA Modular Cell base station with Metawave’s product and will provide Lucent’s mobile operator customers with increased capacity.
Designed for the 850MHz cellular frequency, the two companies will integrate the Lucent Flexent CDMA Modular Cell and the load-balancing Metawave SpotLight® 2200 system. The integrated solution simplifies the sharing of traffic load between sectors and cells to improve the overall traffic that can be carried by the network.
As wireless networks continue to proliferate and more customers sign up for service, our mobile operator customers need solutions that will allow them to incrementally increase network capacity – and our joint solution provides this, said Holly Newman, director of product management for Lucent’s Mobility Solutions Group. This joint solution also ensures investment protection because these improvements are realized using existing spectrum and infrastructure equipment.
Commercial availability for the integrated product, which consists of hardware and software components, is expected by the end of 2001.
It makes good business sense to bring together two of the most advanced base stations and load-balancing technologies, said Bob Hunsberger, chairman of the board and CEO of Metawave. The Lucent Flexent Modular Cell is already an easily expandable platform and the addition of SpotLight 2200 makes it even more convenient for our customers to maximize capacity, while gaining efficiencies in their infrastructure and costs.
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