TORONTO – Nortel will supply Verizon Wireless with technology to upgrade its broadband network, supplying Verizon customers with “significantly faster” data speeds.
Nortel’s CDMA 1xEV-DO Revision A will help Verizon meet customer demands for high bandwidth, real-time wireless services such as VoIP, video telephony, and advanced multimedia applications.
Verizon Wireless is in trials with new, low-latency applications with Nortel EV-DO Rev. A technology, including push-to-talk, fixed mobile convergence, VoIP, and messaging services.
“Successful trials of EV-DO Rev. A have demonstrated the technology’s potential for taking the Verizon Wireless broadband experience to new heights,” said Ed Salas, vice president of network planning, Verizon Wireless. “We look forward to continuing to bring new services to the market based on our enhanced network capabilities.”
EV-DO Rev. A allows Verizon Wireless to provide higher network transmission speeds with lower latency, providing peak data rates of up to 3.1 Mbps on the forward link (flowing from the cellular base station to the subscriber) and up to 1.8 Mbps on the reverse link. Nortel has been a major contributor to the development of 1xEV-DO Rev 0 and Rev. A standards in 3GPP2 and proposed key concepts to the standards for improving the transmission capabilities.
Nortel has been a supplier to Verizon for more than a decade, including supplying key infrastructure for the deployment of its BroadbandAccess, which leverages EV-DO Revision 0 technology, in 2003 in San Diego, Cal.
