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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Designing Mobile Services For 3G
The telecommunication sector is facing a serious problem as the development
of mobile services, e.g. wireless telephone directories, call-barrier or
location-based community applications, is often time-consuming and inhibited
by an unnecessarily difficult access to the technical facilities of mobile
networks. In order to help overcoming this obstacle Fraunhofer Institute
FOKUS and German software vendor Derdack GmbH have now started joint
research for next generation software platforms for wireless service
providers and mobile operators.
With their Open 3G beyond test bed, Fraunhofer FOKUS is already providing
since 2002 insights into the next generation of wireless networking and
mobile service delivery platform technologies aiming to ease access to
increasing number of different mobile operator facilities, including
telephony and data services, such as Short Message, Multimedia Message and
Instant Messaging Services, as well as location and presence information.
FOKUS research and test facilities provide a more convenient application
programming interface (API), i.e. the Parlay API, which accelerates the
development of new customer services significantly. Thus based on that API,
mobile operators can better leverage the technical features of their
infrastructure and open new revenue streams by activating a huge number of
software developers designing innovative applications.
German software vendor Derdack has already today global experiences in
opening the infrastructure of mobile operators to 3rd party content
providers and application developers. With installations of its product
message master(tm) xsp in over 40 countries and with around 100 service
providers and mobile operators Derdack knows the limits of today's offerings
and is intensively working on new solutions to offer convenient access to
mobile operator's billing, telephony, SMS and MMS infrastructure.
Derdack's flagship software message master(tm) xsp is now also running as
part of the Fraunhofer FOKUS 3G UMTS test bed. Derdack and FOKUS have
started to investigate how future software platforms for mobile operators
and service providers have to be designed in order to increase productivity
of mobile application developers.
"The cooperation with FOKUS provides us with the great opportunity to
glimpse into the future of mobile services and applications", says Matthes
Derdack, Managing Director and co-founder of Derdack. "We hope to better
understand the design requirements combining research and our real-life
experience we are making. This is going to deliver unique results."
"We recognise with satisfaction, that our globally unique test bed
infrastructure and our technology competence is enabling the local industry
to gain a leading role in the global mobile communications business" states
Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Head of the FOKUS 3Gbeyond Testbed and Professor
for Next Generation Networks at the Technical University of Berlin. "We are
convinced that Open wireless test beds, like the FOKUS one, will be of prime
importance to stimulate the mobile applications market."
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