ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced the Third-Generation Partnership Program 2 (3GPP2) has completed its international harmonization workshop on global 3G and has moved closer to resolving technical issues related to operating cdma2000 technology multicarrier systems on Global System for Mobile communications MAP-based networks.
Earlier this year, the Operators Harmonization Group-an ad hoc group of carriers from around the world-reached a consensus on 3G standards, opting to push forward with a family of Code Division Multiple Access-based standards that includes cdma2000 and wideband-CDMA technology based on the GSM MAP network. Standards groups have since been working to identify the hooks and extensions needed to tie W-CDMA and ANSI-41 based cdma2000 together. More than 100 wireless industry representatives from 15 countries recently met in El Segundo, Calif., to work on this issue.
Workshop participants agreed on a number of issues, including a reference model, a requirements document, a hand-off mechanism between the direct spread and the multicarrier radio interfaces and an allocation of responsibilities for the individual tasks, said TIA.
Workshop participants agreed to continue technical discussions to comply with the OHG proposal. The hooks identified will be included in Release A of the cdma2000 standard.
