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Michelle Olesiejuk
Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF)
For Immediate Release
Report Promotes an Open Radio Access Network: Copies Are Available at mwif.org
San Diego, California, September 12, 2001 Helping to make the Internet mobile, the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF), a consortium of international mobile carriers, manufacturers and Internet companies, today announced the release of their new industry-wide reference study, "OpenRAN Architecture in 3rd Generation Mobile Systems MTR-007." This technical report on mobile systems outlines new and innovative mapping functions for both 3GPP UTRAN and 3GPP2 CDMA2000 Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures. Copies of the report are available for free at mwif.org or at Booth 1612 at the CTIA Wireless IT show in San Diego.
"MWIF is excited to deliver this report in such a short period of time as it will serve as an industry-wide reference to further expedite the process of making the Internet fully mobile," said Dean Sirovica, MWIF founder and president, who is also the managing director of strategic technology at Vodafone. "By bringing together the best of 3GPP, 3GGP2 and the Internet, the MWIF OpenRAN architecture, offers carriers, wireless ASPs and developers with a catalytic tool to speed market development and spawn next generation solutions."
The technical report defines the MWIF OpenRAN Reference Architecture. This architecture interacts with MWIF¹s Core Network Reference Architecture via the Access Gateway. The report is a culmination of more than nine months of international group collaboration, industry comments and balloting.
Specifically designed with WCDMA and CDMA2000 in mind with additional radio protocols considered in a future revision, the interfaces defined in the report are capable of supporting the services offered to mobile subscribers operating under a variety of standards. The architecture is designed to inter-work with existing core networks as well as future all-IP core networks, such as the MWIF Core Network Reference Architecture. There are provisions for interoperating with existing radio access networks of the same radio link technology that support inter-RAN interfaces. The architecture is not specified to inter-operate with radio access networks having different radio link technologies or where inter-RAN interfaces do not exist.
About Mobile Wireless Internet Forum
Founded in January 2000, the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) is a nonprofit, international industry consortium whose mission is to drive acceptance and adoption of a single open mobile wireless Internet architecture that is independent of the access technology. MWIF and its members publish studies, discoveries and conclusions in technical reports that are made available to the industry. Membership is open to any organization with an interest in promoting the vision of influencing global wireless industry standards that improves interoperability of mobile technologies. Membership information can be found at mwif.org.
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