DECT News

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DECTNews Views
Whats New
Which Markets
Why Success
Why DECT Forum

• Presented by
• Peter BERWING, Chairman of the Board
• DECT Forum

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...in Regulation
Whats New

• New terminal directive in force in April 2000
  RTTE (Radio Telecommunication Terminal
  Directive)
• Regulation restricted to harmonised standards
  (essential requirements) and spectrum matters
• All quality aspects e.g. interoperability need to
  be covered by voluntary agreements, testing and
  certification
• DECT Forum is committed to ensure and maintain
  DECT quality
• Close cooperation with ETSI is established
• DECT Forum supported ERC decision to allocate 10
  MHz for license excempt use in the initial 3G
  UMTS band

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...in Standardization
Whats New

• Main focus on new standards for data and
  multimedia applications
• DPRS (DECT Packet Radio Service)
• Packet based data profile
• Supports Ethernet, Token Ring, IP, Point to Point
  protocol, V.24
• Provides Interoperability
• DMAP (DECT Multimedia Access Profile)- Combines
  GAP and DPRS to a versatile Multimedia Profile
• DECT data rates up to 2 Mbit/s (8 level-PSK)
• DECT included in the WAP (Wireless Access
  Protocol) specification as a WAP carrier
• DECT adopted as a 3G Radio Technology within
  ITUs IMT 2000 family

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...in Standardization (contd)
Whats New

• Future tasks
• Finalization on test specifications for DPRS and
  DMAP providing interoperability
• USB over DECT
• DECT in the ISM band (2,4 GHz)
• following FCC decision on modified use
• co-existence with other radio technologies
• DECT and IMT 2000
• Input to ITU-T regarding protocols and services

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Global Trend is GROWTH !
Which Markets
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Global Trend is GROWTH !
Which Markets
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Business Corporate

• Installed base of almost 100000 multicell
  systems
• DECT accounts for almost 100 of cordless
  business solutions
• Addition of messaging in existing infrastructure
• Integral business mobility functions ( DECT/GSM )

Which Markets
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Residential

• Installed based of over 40 million terminals
• 59 of residential cordless market is DECT based
• Europe still accounts for over 90 of the
  residential DECT market, but with strong growth
  elsewhere, this share will be only 70 by 2004
• DECT penetration in German households is over 80

Which Markets
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Fixed Wireless Access

• Flexibility on Frequency Bands
• DECT FWA can also operate in the 3.5 GHz band
  (e.g. Argentina, El Salvador)
• DECT technology extended range up to 15 km
• DECT systems combined with V-SAT and/or PMP
  coverage up to several hundred kms
• Advanced services facing the wireless Internet
  challenge 56 kbit/s (V.90) using double slot and
  LU7 service ISDN BRA packet mode (DPRS-based)
  soon.
• New market wins in Latin America China
• Fast and Reliable Deployment largest WLL
  deployed and operating networks world-wide (South
  Africa, Indonesia, Egypt, Poland, China, Turkey,
  Colombia...)
• Newcomers on the WLL market

Which Markets
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DECT FWA Positioning Today
Which Markets
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Data Multimedia

• Strong growth of wireless data expected in all
  corporate, residential and WLL markets
• Today
• Value added applications like
• Cable replacement
• Barcode readers
• Point of Sale terminals
• Tomorrow
• Mobile Multimedia
• LAN connectivity
• Wireless video conferencing
• Wireless Internet access data speeds up to 2
  Mbit/s

Which Markets
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Merging Voice Data
Projected Traffic Growth
Which Markets
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Source Analysis
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Merging Voice Data

• In mobile networks, volume of data traffic will
  exceed voice traffic from year 2004 onwards
• Internet access is the key volume driver IP
  assumed as the main protocol for multimedia
  applications
• Other important growth areas
• Local networking of terminals e.g. PCs,
  printers, scanners ...
• Connectivity between devices and modules
• Messaging
• DECT is perfectly suited to support todays and
  future voice (GAP), data (DPRS) and multimedia
  applications (DMAP)

Which Markets
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DECT Developments

• GSM/DECT dual mode phones available from several
  suppliers
• DECT modules available
• DECT Merging of voice and data

Which Markets
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Why DECT is successful

• An open and flexible low power radio technology
• Suitable for Residential Cordless, Wireless
  Enterprise Systems and Fixed Wireless Access
  (FWA)
• Optimized range for most residential and business
  applications
• For FWA with directive antennas range isup to 15
  km
• Incorporates all necessary extensions for
  multi-cellular structures to cover bigger areas
• Standardized encryption
• Exclusive frequency band in most countries
  robust against interference
• Spectrum available in over 110 countries
  worldwide

Why Success
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Why DECT is successful (contd)

• Today 45 million DECT terminals mainly for
  voice applications
• Excellent voice quality (32 kbit/s ADPCM)
• Future is voice, data and multimedia
• Variety of data profiles already in place
• New profiles DPRS and DMAP suit fastest growing
  applications and provide interoperability
• Flexible data rates up to 2 Mbit/s
• High volume production allows for competitive
  costs
• Future-proof accepted by ITU as an IMT 2000
  technology

Why Success
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DECT Success Keys
DECT accepted in over 110 countries
DECT fulfils requirements of ITU for
3G applications
DECT Data products already operating
Why Success
45 million DECT lines terminals in 99
DECT perfectly suits DATA Multimedia
Continuous double-digit GROWTH
Over 200 DECT different products available on
the market, growing every day
DECT belongs to IMT 2000
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Inter-working with Key Bodies
Interactive Co-operation Promotion
Why DECT Forum
DECT a future-oriented standard
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DATA Products for Today

• DECT Forum Members have exhibited DATA demos at
  the DECT 2000 Congress-Rome
• Transmission of still pictures by ALPS
• A wireless PDA for real-time corporate
  information by Ericsson
• A wireless ISDN system by RTX
• A wireless video conference system by RTX
• Combined cordless speech and data transmission by
  Siemens
• Barcode reader with wireless connection to a PC
  by URMET

Why DECT Forum
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