Aricent Taps Femtocells

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Aricent, a full-service, full-spectrum communications software company, and ip.access, a leading developer of in-building wireless picocell and femtocell solutions, today announced a software partnership that accelerated the launch of ip.access' Oyster 3G, home access femtocell.

The Oyster 3G is one of the first in a new category of femtocell products that has captured the imagination of the communications service provider community. Oyster 3G is an in-building access solution that increases both network coverage and user satisfaction - while simultaneously reducing a variety of costs to operators. ip.access' 3G Converge(tm) architecture allows communications service providers to seamlessly upgrade their infrastructure to provide triple and quadruple play services without disturbing existing networks.

The partnership between Aricent and ip.access began at the start of the product development process. Over a nine month period, Aricent worked with ip.access to design, develop and integrate Aricent software into the 3G access controller, bringing together hardware and software components to accelerate the delivery and match the evolving project requirements. The highly collaborative program resulted in the delivery of the Aricent software that powers Oyster 3G system.

"In the battle for the building, operators are applying a wide range of hyperconnected systems to drive in-building connectivity and increase subscriber usage," said Ajay Gupta, vice president of the wireless and convergence business unit at Aricent. "In stitching together this all-IP network of hyperconnected nodes, it's important that the software that powers it is developed with a deep understanding of not only the 3G core and access networks, but also of the experience that end-users will expect. Aricent's development partnership with ip.access establishes a benchmark for how to deliver innovative new products while slashing time-to-market. All-IP systems such as Oyster 3G will completely change the way end users, service providers and the industry at large think of in-building connectivity and we're excited to have been a partner in the development of ip.access femtocell access point system."

In a separate release:

BARCELONA -- RadiSys Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), a leading global provider of advanced embedded solutions, and Aricent(tm), the full-service, full-spectrum communications software company, today announced the two companies will jointly demonstrate this week at the 3GSM World Congress an Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) hardware and software platform designed specifically for WiMAX networks.

The two companies will showcase a solution that features the Aricent SigASN WiMAX Gateway software running on the RadiSys(r) Promentum(tm) ATCA SYS-6010 - the industry's first and only generally available 10 Gigabit common managed platform for high-bandwidth network element and data plane applications. RadiSys 10 Gigabit ATCA platforms are invaluable to equipment manufacturers developing complex network elements such as WiMAX ASN Gateways, 3G Radio Network Controllers/Base Station Controllers, IPTV infrastructure and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) compliant media gateways, application servers and media servers/MRFPs.

"ATCA has quickly become a critical component in designing wireless networks," said Scott Grout, CEO, RadiSys. "This architecture provides a foundation that allows equipment manufacturers to meet or exceed performance objectives necessary to target next generation subscriber and traffic growth driven by 3G, IMS and WiMAX networks," said Grout.

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