3GSM: News from the show

VeriSign today launched a device management service with partner mFormation Technologies. The hosted service combines Verisign’s security portfolio with a real-time monitoring and authorization platform that will allow its enterprise and carrier customers to set security profiles for mobile devices and control access to the phone if those profiles are changed. VeriSign also announced at the show that it will acquire 3United, an applications service provider based in Vienna, Austria.

Lucent Technologies has formally selected Ubiquity’s SIP application server for the vendor’s growing IP Multimedia Subsystem portfolio, agreeing to resell the server to its carrier customers and to further work on integrating the SIP technology with its own architecture. Ubiquity has been working with Lucent, IBM and other vendors and integrators as ecosystem partners, but today’s Lucent announcement is the first time Lucent has agreed to an OEM deal with the vendor.

Nortel Networks said that the 3GPP has approved orthogonal frequency division multi-plexing (OFDM) and multiple/input multiple output MIMO) as technologies for its Long Term Evolution standards track. Nortel has been working with the technologies for some time and has already done several lab trials demonstrating high-speed video and large data transfer applications. Nortel is calling the technology high-speed OFDM packet access (HSOPA), and it expects to see commercial base stations ready in 2008.

Tellabs showcased a new mult-service provisioning platform that it claims is the smallest. The MSPP edge node fist into one standard 44 mm rack unit. MSPPs are the backhaul elements that transport a carrier’s TDM and data traffic, eliminating the need for separate backhaul links for different types of traffic.