IPWireless Announces Availability of First 3GPP Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB)
Business Week, February 17, 2010
IPWireless, a pioneer in developing key enabling IMB technology, today announced that it has designed an interoperability test (IOT) platform that will allow device and network infrastructure vendors to verify their IMB solutions for interoperability. The IMB IOT platform will bridge the requirements of mobile operators and those of their device and network infrastructure vendor partners, thus enabling both parties to accelerate the time to market of their commercial IMB solutions.
IMB was defined in the 3GPP release 8 standards, and was recently endorsed by the GSMA as the preferred method for the efficient delivery of broadcast services. IPWireless will make its IMB technology, which includes solutions for both network infrastructure vendors and device vendors, available for IMB interoperability testing in the second quarter of 2010. The User Equipment (UE) solution supports full integration with a next generation 3G UE solution from a leading 3G semiconductor company to allow vendors to test the full capabilities of IMB. The Infrastructure IMB IOT platform will feature IPWireless’ operational Node B IMB transmitter.
