Alcatel signed an OEM agreement to resell fSONA Communications' Free Space Optics (FSO) as a subsystem of the Alcatel high capacity wireless solution. Alcatel's high-capacity urban wireless systems are being integrated with FSO technology. Free space optics delivers point-to-point, fiber-like services over the air using lasers. fSONA's SONAbeam technology operates at up to 1.5 Gbps and distances up to 5km, depending on environmental conditions.
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http://www.fsona.comAlcatel has recently announced a series of OEM and technology partnership agreements, including:
- RADVISION, for its new viaIP gw-P20/M Gateway, which supports real time video telephony sessions between 3G-324M enabled cell phones/PDAs and multiple IP and ISDN-based videoconferencing systems. The system is based on the 3G-324M standard for real-time multimedia communications over WCDMA and CDMA2000 3G/UMTS networks. The RADVISION product will be matched with the Alcatel 5020 Softswitch acting as an H.323 gatekeeper, which manages the fixed IP videophones or PCs with an embedded Webcam and a broadband connection to the Internet (xDSL, cable modem or corporate).
Adjungo Networks, for its wireless LAN security & management systems, which offers several secure authentication mechanisms for WLAN users, such as SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) based and Virtual SIM authentication, which leverages the mobile network capabilities supporting 802.1x hot spots and Web-based hot spots. The offer also includes an SMS (Short Message System) based authentication feature.
Native Networks, for its technology for metro Ethernet over SDH in its Optical Multi-Service Nodes (OMSN) equipment. Alcatel's Optical Multi-Service Nodes aggregate multiprotocol traffic onto SDH. Although configurable as ADMs (Add-Drop-Multiplexers), OMSNs have cross-connect capability and already support point-to-point Ethernet connections. Under the new partnership, Alcatel is leveraging Native Networks' Metro Ethernet technology to introduce enhanced transport and aggregation of Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet services, along with Packet Ring functionality.
IP Wireless, for its TD-CDMA (TDD) mobile broadband technology. The TDD solution, which will support Alcatel's portfolio of UMTS/3G and WLAN networks and services, is aimed at mobile operators wishing to complement their GSM/GPRS and WCDMA services with enhanced TDD coverage in dense business areas.
