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Ericsson Conducts the World's First IPv6 Over 3G UMTS/WCDMA Network Demonstration
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 31, 2003 - Ericsson (Nasdaq:ERICY) announced that an ambulance demonstration
today showed vital medical data, voice and video using IPv6 and seamlessly roaming over 2G and 3G systems as well as wireless LANs.
As part of the EU-project IPv6 Wireless Internet Initiative (6WINIT) it signifies an important step towards the vision of mobile users
being "Always Best Connected".
Three key technologies were brought together for the first time to show the usefulness of seamless mobile services: next generation Internet
(IPv6), 3G (UMTS/WCDMA) and Multi-Access.
The medical emergency system, called Guardian Angel, can seamlessly move between different types of access networks -- whatever is
the best available in a certain location. From a hospital setting, doctors can observe the patient in the ambulance, check the heart rate and
blood pressure, using mobile networks such as GSM/GPRS or UMTS/WCDMA. Once the ambulance reaches the hospital, the system
can automatically switch over to an indoor WLAN hot spot. Data flows can use separate network interfaces in parallel. For example, if the
WLAN does not have sufficient reliability, vital data transmissions could simultaneously use a GSM/GPRS or UMTS/WCDMA channel.
The demonstration was a joint effort within the 6WINIT project consisting of University Hospital at Tubingen, University of Stuttgart
Computing Center, University of Bremen, University College London and Ericsson. It took place at Ericsson's headquarters in Stockholm
in the presence of invited EU-officials as part of the Final Review of the EU project.
Ericsson is shaping the future of Mobile and Broadband Internet communications through its continuous technology leadership. Providing
innovative solutions in more than 140 countries, Ericsson is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world.
Read more at http://www.ericsson.com/press
About 6WINIT
The EU-project IPv6 Wireless Internet Initiative (6WINIT) is led by University College London and was started in early 2001 with a
powerful consortium including carriers, suppliers, research organizations, hospitals and universities. 6WINIT will validate the introduction
of the new Mobile Wireless Internet in Europe, promoting European operational testbeds to plan, build and demonstrate an end-to-end
IPv6 enabled mobile environment.
Read more at: http://www.6winit.org/
About IPv6
The tremendous growth of the Internet has made IPv4-addresses become scarce. Devices for new services, such as interactive
multi-media, home area networks and surveillance systems for cars, ships, aircraft and telemetry all need IP addresses in order to be
"Always connected -- Always online". This requires IPv6. In addition to the addressing issue IPv6 also remedies some of the perceived
problems of IPv4 including its lack of routing hierarchy, lack of consistent security, lack of automatic configuration capabilities, and
inefficient routing support for mobile nodes.
-- Ericsson was the first to make a commercial IPv6 router in 1995 -- In October
2000, Ericsson was the first vendor to demonstrate the use of IPv6 in a GPRS network in a co-operation with SmarTone of Hong-Kong
and BT Wireless. -- In February 2001, at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, Ericsson demonstrated the Worlds first Real-time
Router with IPv4/v6 support for the Radio Access Network.
Ericsson is fully committed to introduce IPv6 in all its products to provide End-to-End Seamless services. Ericsson has strongly supported
the standardization within 3GPP, which resulted in IPv6 becoming mandatory for the support of IP multimedia services in 3GPP R5.
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