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Lucent Technologies and Top Global Join Forces to Provide Wireless Service Providers with a Solution That Links 3G Mobile Networks and Wi-Fi Technology

Posted on: Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 06:00 CST

BEIJING, China, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Top Global and Lucent Technologies today announced an agreement to provide wireless service providers in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) regions with a solution that integrates third-generation (3G) mobile networks and Wi-Fi networks. This enables operators to leverage wide-area 3G CDMA2000(R) and UMTS/W-CDMA mobile networks to carry the data traffic generated by Wi-Fi hot spots. Top Global's hot spot solution, called 3G MobileBridge(TM), serves as a gateway that links the Wi-Fi and 3G networks, enabling business users and consumers to use their Wi-Fi-enabled devices in truly mobile environments such as trains, buses and other vehicles.

Under the agreement, Top Global and Lucent will collaborate to ensure the compatibility of Top Global's 3G MobileBridge(TM) solution with Lucent's 3G CDMA2000 and UMTS/W-CDMA mobile networking equipment. The two companies also will work together on joint-marketing and sales activities.

This week, Top Global and Lucent are conducting live demonstrations of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and UMTS/W-CDMA networks carrying the data traffic of a Wi-Fi hot spot by leveraging Top Global's 3G MobileBridge(TM) solution in Lucent's booth (#8C01) at the PT/Wireless & Networks Comm China 2003 tradeshow taking place at the China International Exhibition Center.

Last March, Lucent highlighted the concept of how Wi-Fi hot spots can be connected to the Internet via high-speed 3G mobile networks through its first "Wi-Fi on the Move" demonstration, which was completed at a major North American wireless trade show. The prototype mobile hotspot gateway used for this initial demonstration was developed by Bell Labs researchers and incorporated all of the necessary Wi-Fi and 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO networking components required for a public deployment into a single box -- an industry first.

"By working with Top Global, we are demonstrating the complementary nature of Wi-Fi and 3G and leveraging the benefits of both technologies to help mobile operators deliver productivity-enhancing high-speed data services to business users and consumers," said Mike Iandolo, vice president of CDMA product management for Lucent's Mobility Solutions Group. "For example, this solution enables operators to deploy a Wi-Fi hot spot on a commuter train using a wide-area CDMA2000 network to transport the data traffic, so that passengers can use their Wi-Fi-enabled devices while traveling."

By seamless integration of the Wi-Fi and 3G hardware, software, and network protocol stacks, Top Global's solution supports authentication, authorization, and the needed accounting features so that operators can simplify network architecture and reduce overall investment. Its plug-and-play simplicity reduces installation cost and its rich networking features simplify network management and reduce maintenance costs. It overcomes many hurdles that can prevent or delay an operator from offering service in a popular hot spot.

"Top Global is a leading wireless systems design company dedicated to offering last-mile wireless products and solutions to customers worldwide," said Top Global President & CTO, Dr. Alan Zhen Zhou. "Our innovative 3G hot spot solution clearly demonstrates our capability and experience with Wi-Fi and leverages Lucent's 3G mobile network expertise. We are looking forward to working with Lucent to deploy this solution around the world so that more people can get easy access to the Internet anywhere at any time with no strings attached. We are looking to partner with hot spot and mobile operators to field trial the solution with support from selected channel partners, and systems integrators."

ABOUT LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers networks for the world's largest communications service providers. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent relies on its strengths in mobility, optical, data and voice networking technologies as well as software and services to develop next-generation networks. The company's systems, services and software are designed to help customers quickly deploy and better manage their networks and create new, revenue-generating services that help businesses and consumers. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at http://www.lucent.com/.

About Top Global USA, Inc.

Top Global is a leading wireless systems design company. Top Global offers total WLAN solutions for Enterprises, and Public Hot Spots. Currently, Top Global is the Public WLAN market leader in China. Top Global has a strong engineering and design team with many years of experience in wireless communications systems design, hardware and software design and testing, and communications protocol development. With our focus and dedication in wireless and our deep technical knowledge of wireless chipsets, drivers, firmware, and applications layer software, our goal is to become the Top Global Leader in wireless systems design. Our customers and partners can reduce investment risk and shorten time to market by OEM/ODM Top Global wireless products and solutions. We believe the future of wireless communication has just started, and that wireless broadband Internet, which is still a novelty today, will become as pervasive as the Internet itself. Top Global sees it as a business opportunity to give everyone easy wireless high-speed Internet access, whether at home, in the office, or in public places. This wireless horizon has just been discovered, and we will broaden the World Wide Web (WWW) to a World Without Wires (WWW). "Broadening Wireless Horizons" is our company slogan.

More information about Top Global is available from its Web site at http://www.chinatopglobal.com/.

CDMA2000 is a registered trademark of the Telecommunications Industry Association.

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