At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, Cisco Systems introduced a new range of products designed to deliver seamless mobility and enhanced user experience from the cellular network to the public wireless local area network. The Cisco Mobile Exchange is a standards-based framework that links the radio access network to IP networks. The rollout includes:
- a Multi-Processor WAN Application Module (MWAM) for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches and Cisco 7600 Series routers. Cisco MWAM enables mobile network operators worldwide to deploy, provision and manage value-added services at the network edge. Lucent, Motorola and Siemens have integrated Cisco MWAM into their mobile data solution offerings.
- the Cisco Persistent Storage Device (PSD), which is implemented as a single Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series or Cisco 7600 Series service module card, and is designed to provide local storage and controlled retrieval when connectivity to the mediation servers is lost.
- a public wireless LAN solution that also provides a comprehensive Extensible Authentication Protocol-Subscriber Identity Module (EAP-SIM) solution with gateway and security interfaces and an EAP-SIM supplicant supporting Windows XP/2000.
