MovingMedia 2000 employs transparent next-generation network (NGN) voice and data over IP architecture that distributes all components of CDMA system throughout network. Allowing CDMA operators to transition to all-IP network, product lets carriers distribute network elements and functions across network as needed. Radio access, core voice network, and core data network products are offered in 450, 800, and 1,900 MHz frequencies.

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Distributed Architecture Provides Significant Savings in Infrastructure and Operating Costs, Opens up New Revenue Sources

ALAMEDA, Calif., Nov. 15 -- UTStarcom, Inc. (NASDAQ:UTSI), a global leader in IP access networking and services, today introduced MovingMedia 2000, an end-to-end IP-based infrastructure solution for CDMA/CDMA2000 wireless technologies. The MovingMedia 2000 product line provides mobile operators with solutions for offering voice and data services over IP to end users. The UTStarcom solution also allows CDMA operators to transition to an all-IP network and offers advantages such as significant savings on infrastructure and backhaul costs, as well as the ability to offer new value-add services not enabled by TDM-CDMA based networks.

(For more information on MovingMedia 2000 all-IP product portfolio, including product and solution collaterals and network architecture, please visit http://www.utstar.com/Solutions/Wireless/CDMA/ )

The MovingMedia 2000 solution employs an advanced next-generation network (NGN) voice and data over IP architecture that distributes all the components of a CDMA system throughout the network, rather than in one centralized location. No matter where they are located, the components act as one system from the operator's point of view.

"The transparent, distributed architecture of MovingMedia 2000 is a unique departure from the centralized architectures of all other traditional CDMA/CDMA2000 solutions," said Jack Mar, president of CDMA division at UTStarcom. "Our solution lets carriers distribute network elements and functions across the network, as they are needed and where they are needed. Freed from the need to replicate all network elements at multiple locations, wireless carriers can reduce the amount and cost of their infrastructure."

UTStarcom is currently working with tier-one carrier customers in India, Asia, and the United States on trials and initial deployments of its MovingMedia 2000 solution. The company also plans to introduce three low-cost CDMA handset models in early 2005 that will be interoperable with its MovingMedia 2000 infrastructure solution, as well as other CDMA2000 networks.

Benefits of a Distributed Architecture

With traditional CDMA switching solutions, multiple network elements are collocated in large switching centers. One switching system may have as many as 20 to 30 cabinets of equipment, and operators may require multiple systems throughout their networks. Carriers backhaul all network traffic, even local traffic, to one of these centralized switches before it is transmitted to the recipient.

With the distributed architecture of MovingMedia 2000, a wireless operator can deploy various elements of the solution in different cities -- New York, Dallas, and San Francisco, for example -- and they would operate as one system that would be transparent to the operator. UTStarcom's MovingMedia 2000 is designed to free a wireless mobile operator from the need to have a complete system in every major city in which it offers services, drastically reducing the size and cost of its infrastructure. For example, a network that now employs 50 centralized CDMA systems would require as few as 5 to 10 distributed MovingMedia 2000 systems.

The MovingMedia 2000's distributed architecture results in distributed traffic. Instead of all traffic being backhauled to a central location, traffic is directed to the nearest gateway in the distributed network, so local calls stay in the local area. As a result, wireless operators will use far less transmission bandwidth, spend a lower amount of money to connect a call, and realize improved call quality.

Subscribers can continue to use their existing handsets when their carriers implement the MovingMedia 2000 solution. UTStarcom supports standard CDMA handsets, as well as handsets for all three CDMA frequency spectrum -- 450 MHz, 800 MHz, and 1900 MHz.

"UTStarcom's industry-leading MovingMedia 2000 solution was a clear choice in view of its flexibility, scalability, and advanced feature set," said Asif Rabbani, managing director of OneTel. "The all-IP solution based on next-generation softswitch architecture also offers tremendous operational benefits over legacy TDM network gear particularly for greenfield operators like OneTel."

More Coverage, More Applications

MovingMedia 2000 includes a wide range of components that are designed to let carriers extend IP voice and data services to locations that until now have been inaccessible or too expensive to serve. For example, wireless operators could gain profitable new subscribers by deploying distributed MovingMedia 2000 components in rural areas where it was not previously possible to provide CDMA cost effectively.