GENBAND Mobile Office, GENBAND Mobile Voice VPN, To Debut At Mobile World Congress 2011

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BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GENBAND, a leading developer of IP infrastructure and application solutions, today announced it will unveil GENBAND Mobile Office, an all-mobile corporate phone system designed for the small business market, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Additionally, the Company introduced GENBAND Mobile Voice VPN, a SIP business trunking solution that connects enterprise customers directly into the mobile service provider’s network core. By empowering mobile service providers to more directly and seamlessly service the enterprise market, GENBAND Mobile Voice VPN eliminates the need for mobile operators to rely on expensive leased PRI trunks from fixed line operators

“Enterprise voice functionality and connectivity have largely been the domain of the fixed-line operators,” said Micaela Giuhat, Vice President of Product Marketing at GENBAND. “With GENBAND Mobile Office and Mobile Voice VPN, GENBAND is uniquely positioned in the marketplace with a complete solution that includes both access connectivity and enterprise-grade office telephony applications. Our solution opens new revenue generating opportunities for mobile operators as they more comprehensively serve business customers.”

By customizing and combining its rich portfolio of Applications, Call Control, Session Border Controllers and Traffic and Policy Management solutions on the GENBAND GENiUS™ ATCA Platform, GENBAND provides mobile operators with complete and hybrid solutions that can replace expensive PRIs and provide increased fixed-mobile integration. Delivering an all-IP connection to the mobile core provides operators optimal voice quality for fixed-mobile calls by avoiding multiple transcoding stages. Additionally, end-to-end HD voice between mobile users and enterprise desk phones becomes feasible.

“Over the past year, GENBAND has significantly broadened its mobile portfolio and invested in new solutions,” said Joe McGarvey, Principal Analyst, IP Services Infrastructure at Current Analysis. “GENBAND’s Mobile Office and Mobile Voice VPN solutions offer a unique combination of functionality encompassing both access infrastructure and applications for the end user that few companies are capable of or presently focused on offering. Today’s announcement creates a range of interesting possibilities for mobile service providers to better serve business customers, improve broadband offerings, reduce cost and increase revenue.”

At Mobile World Congress (booth 2B90), GENBAND will showcase Mobile Office applications powered by the GENBAND A2™ Converged Application Server operating at the mobile core to provide small businesses with all features available on a regular PBX, such as auto attendant console and presence based routing functionality.
Additionally, GENBAND will demonstrate pathways for a more cost-effective business trunk solution to the mobile core through GENBAND Mobile Voice VPN, which allows mobile service providers to address new opportunities with IP Voice and provide IP-based services such as hosted PBX and unified communications. GENBAND’s flexible platform delivers the interconnectivity standards a mobile operator requires, from IP, to TDM to hybrid infrastructure.
Both the GENBAND Mobile Office and Mobile Voice VPN are integrated and offered through the GENBAND GENiUS platform, enabling GENBAND to provide an end-to-end solution with media gateway capabilities, BICC call control, SIP applications and border/policy control. The platform further leverages GENBAND’s extensive experience connecting to a wide variety of enterprise applications and IP PBXs from the major vendors.
Through GENBAND’s G9™ Converged Gateway, the end-to-end solution offers cost-effective mobile media gateway functions and simultaneously provides IP-IP transcoding features. To support service providers in managing Enterprise SIP trunks, GENBAND’s S3™ Session Border Controller provides SLA management features. The end-to-end GENBAND GENiUS platform also supports service providers’ evolution to IMS.

To learn more, visit www.genband.com.

HTC Desire 2 At MWC?

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Looks like among many other goodies, we will be seeing HTC Desire 2 at the MWC, the Mobile World Congress.But the evidence is only the screen shot above mentioning the device, HTC Desire 2! The blog, HTCInside acquired the purported screen shot of Vodafone Germany’s internal inventory system.
If HTC Desire and HTC Desire HD are anything to go by, HTC Desire 2 should be an interesting Android 2.3 device, perhaps.
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First 3D Smartphone Is An Android, It Is LG Optimus 3D

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LG has announced that it will bring  LG Optimus 3D, the world's first 3D smartphone to Mobile World Congress. The phone is more than a just a device to watch stuff in 3D. As well as letting users see in 3D without glasses, the LG Optimus 3D, equipped with dual lens camera allows users to record 3D content as well.
One of us will be looking at the phone, at the MWC.

LG TO UNVEIL WORLD'S FIRST FULL 3D SMARTPHONE AT MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2011

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LG TO UNVEIL WORLD'S FIRST FULL 3D SMARTPHONE AT MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2011

3D Recording-Viewing-Sharing of Life's Precious Moments Anytime, Anywhere

SEOUL, Feb. 1, 2011 – At this year's Mobile World Congress, LG will unveil the LG Optimus 3D, the world's first 3D smartphone offering consumers a full 3D experience right in the palm of their hands.

The LG Optimus 3D addresses the lack of 3D content issue -- one of the biggest problems facing the 3D market -- with a complete platform for a one-of-a-kind experience on a mobile device. LG's most advanced smartphone to date will feature a dual-lens camera for 3D recording, a glasses-free LCD panel for 3D viewing and diverse connectivity options such as HDMI and DLNA for 3D content sharing anytime, anywhere.

Further details and a live demo of the LG Optimus 3D will be offered at Booth #8B178 at MWC in Barcelona from February 14 to 17.

Deltenna's WiBE Brings Broadband Services To Rural UK and Ireland

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While everyone, politicians Telecom carriers, FCC and Telecom bloggers have be harping about broadband services to rural masses, Deltenna, a small company in UK is taking the technology to the field, literally. A small device Deltenna developed, connects to 3G services and becomes a hotspot to serve farmers and cows and who ever happened to be in the rural areas.
But this is different from MiFI I just got from Virgin Mobile, (which is as slow as a jar of molasses when two people are connected, forget about the 5 connections the miFi allows), Deltenna's device connects with tested speeds as high as 2.8Mbps in rural areas. The device could reach theoretical limit of 7.2Mbps in ideal connections.
Cetag Systems, Ireland and Buzz Networks in UK will be the first to deploy the service. In England the the device could cost as high as £425 while in Ireland it will cost €299.
Press Release;

1st November: Deltenna's WiBE, a device to deliver fast broadband to rural areas that are far from the phone exchange, will today become available to consumers and businesses in the UK and Ireland through its reseller network.

The gadget connects to the 3G mobile network and creates a web hotspot - even when a mobile phone, dongle or MiFi device wouldn't register a 3G signal.

Recent independent tests for a UK broadcaster showed that in areas of weak signal the device delivers a data throughput 30-times greater than a 3G USB modem dongle. And the connection range is typically between three and five-times that of the 3G dongle.

The WiBE's maximum throughput is 7.2Mbps and extensive tests in the UK demonstrate a typical download speed of 2.8Mbps in rural regions. These are achieved through Deltenna's patented directional antennas and alignment algorithms.

Users connect laptops, smartphones or VoIP phones to the device via WiFi.

The device automatically tests each mobile cell in range to determine the fastest available download speed and configures its aerials to achieve the best possible connection and block any interference.

The first companies to offer the WiBE are Cetag Systems in Ireland and Buzz Networks in the UK. Buzz will resell the WiBE with its VoIP service under the name Hubb@.

The WiBE is also undergoing trials with major network operators and was recently selected by the UK Trade and Investment to represent the best of British innovation at Mobile World Congress 2011.