A First At Ericsson Worldwide: Ericsson Canada's New Integration Centre is Now Open for Business.MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 1999-- Ericsson Canada officially announced today the opening its new Integration Centre, located at 8400 Decarie Boulevard, in Montreal. The 7 million-dollar facility, the first at Ericsson worldwide, will simulate simulate - simulation various environments and scenarios for the purpose of testing new and improved software and hardware, without disrupting the customers' networks or service to end-users. The Centre will allow Ericsson to validate To prove something to be sound or logical. Also to certify conformance to a standard. Contrast with "verify," which means to prove something to be correct. For example, data entry validity checking determines whether the data make sense (numbers fall within a range, numeric data changes to customers' networks, to test external equipment and to simulate the millennium shift on replicated networks. The Integration Centre will also permit the integration of other vendor equipment to facilitate interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and to provide certification to third-party product providers. As the Integration Centre is a mobile laboratory set-up, the development teams will be able to demonstrate exactly how Ericsson clients' networks will react to a product upgrade or to the introduction of a new feature in a live environment. A continuing growth "Ericsson's new Integration Centre represents a strategic initiative to support business growth in the TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). (Time Division Multiple Access) market, and is yet another confirmation of Ericsson's continued involvement in Ericsson's R&D Centre in Montreal," said Mr. Goran Froling, Vice-President and General Manager of Ericsson Canada's R&D Centre. Mr. Froling also re-affirmed the impressive growth and the continuing success which the company has known over the years, and recalled the leading role played by Ericsson Canada's R&D Centre in the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. industry worldwide. Today, with 4 locations and over 1,200 employees, Ericsson Canada ranks 6th in overall R&D expenditures in Canada and 3rd in the telecommunications sector. "As we enter the 3rd millennium, Ericsson is firmly determined to remain a leader in the new telecommunications world by developing new products and services that make our customers successful in the era of 3G, where voice, data & mobility converge con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. ," concluded Mr. Froling. For his part, Mr. Andy Troedsson, Director of Integration and Certification, commented on the role and future of the Integration Centre. "At Ericsson, we have always regarded meeting our customers' needs as our main goal, and the Integration Centre will be instrumental to meeting those needs." Mr. Troedsson concluded his remarks saying: "The Integration Centre is now officially open for business, and we intend on developing and growing competence, tools and equipment in order to give increasingly valuable service to our customers and to the end-users worldwide." Ericsson Canada Inc. is a subsidiary of LM Ericsson, Sweden. Its R&D Centre in Montreal, Quebec, has the worldwide mandate for software development for the global wireless standard TDMA. The enterprise serves the Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. market by providing complete information and communication solutions for its customers, which include Cellular/PCS Systems, Mobile Phones, Private Radio Systems, Data Systems, Enterprise Networks, and Infocom across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. , and has offices in Montreal, Mississauga, Burnaby, Ottawa, Calgary, Fort McMurray Fort McMurray, town (1991 pop. 34,706), NE Alta., Canada, on the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers. Since the beginning of the mining of Alberta's oil sands in 1964, the town's population has grown from 1,200. and Waterloo Waterloo, town, Belgium Waterloo (vä`tərlō), commune (1991 pop. 27,860), Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, near Brussels. The battle of Waterloo (see Waterloo campaign) was fought just south of there on June 18, 1815. . Ericsson is the leading provider in the new telecoms world, with communications solutions that combine telecom and datacom technologies with the freedom of mobility for the user. With more than 100,000 employees in 140 countries, Ericsson simplifies communications for its customers -- network operators, service providers, enterprises and consumers -- the world over. |
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