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PrintTerreStar brings broadband everywhere to US users
The world's first integrated mobile satellite and terrestrial network will bring broadband to TerreStar's customers wherever they are.
With traditional market boundaries between fixed, mobile, Internet and telecoms blurring, operators can win new business by providing high speed broadband access everywhere. Vital for success are independence of location and network, as well as access that is as simple to use as making a voice call.
US service provider TerreStar is taking up the challenge by deploying the region's first integrated mobile satellite and terrestrial communications network.
When TerreStar's all-IP mobile network is deployed in 2008, millions of end-users throughout North America will be able to enjoy universal access and tailored applications. TerreStar will serve a range of customers including homeland security agencies, public safety agencies, rural communities and wireless carriers.
To help bring the initiative alive, Nokia Siemens Networks is working with TerreStar to provide its I-HSPA technology, backed by a full suite of engineering, design and optimization services. The Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi WCDMA Base Station will form an essential part of the project.
Robert Brumley, President and Chief Executive Officer, TerreStar, says: "Nokia Siemens Networks' Flexi platform and I-HSPA architecture deliver the network performance and economics that are essential to supporting next-generation mobile communications services over our integrated satellite-terrestrial system."
Connecting mobile directly to the Internet
I-HSPA is a 3GPP standards-based, simplified network architecture that enables the Flexi WCDMA Base Station to provide direct Internet access, bypassing the RNC and SGSN. Being fully standardized and invisible to the end-user means that ordinary HSPA devices can be used. The technology also offers the inherent benefits of a telecom-based system, providing full mobility, security, roaming, and economies of scale.
With I-HSPA, networks are optimized for native IP applications, such as voice, data and mission critical information applications. A further benefit of I-HSPA is that it can be scaled as data traffic grows - there is no need to upgrade the capacity of a number of network elements when traffic booms. This makes the technology very cost-effective, enabling service providers to offer flat rate mobile broadband data to compete with traditional DSL services.
Furthermore, I-HSPA's flat network architecture is similar to that being used by LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology and provides service providers with a smooth migration path to LTE.
When launched, TerreStar's innovative mobile communications network will be the first IP-enabled, seamlessly integrated satellite and terrestrial network for commercially available devices and will offer a suite of customer-branded applications.