UMA Technology Web Site Launches.umatoday.com to Provide Latest News and Information on Global UMA (1) (Unlicensed Mobile Access) See GAN. (2) (Upper Memory Area) Memory in a PC between 640K and 1M. More relevant in the days of DOS, this region was broken into Upper Memory Blocks (UMB) reserved for video memory and other Market MILPITAS, Calif. -- Leading Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology vendors today announced the launch of a Web site focused entirely on UMA technology, the 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol global standard for fixed-mobile convergence (FMC See fixed mobile convergence. ). The site, www.umatoday.com, is dedicated to providing the latest news, information, and discussion on UMA-based services, deployments, products, and events. Earlier this week, France Telecom/Orange announced that its UMA-based Unik service will be deployed in France, Spain, Poland, the U.K., and the Netherlands. This follows the recent announcement by Telecom Italia Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. It was once known as SIP, and it has the largest user base in Italy. Telecom Italia also owns shares in Telecom Argentina and Telecom Personal, fixed and cellular networks in Argentina. that is has launched its UMA-based Unico service, as well as TeliaSonera deploying its UMA-based HomeFree service. With growing numbers of global mobile operators announcing UMA-enabled dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi services, the market demand for UMA-based products and services is rapidly increasing. Informa Telecoms & Media projects 92 million FMC subscribers will generate $28 billion in revenues by 2011. In addition, ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. Research recently released a report stating that by 2011, there will be more than 330 million dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi handsets shipped in the market. "With service launched by Orange, Telecom Italia, and TeliaSonera -- there is a clear indication that UMA is the leading technology enabler in converging mobile and fixed networks," said Keith Nissen, senior telecom analysts, In-Stat. "UMAToday.com is an important step in providing information and education on the continued evolution of UMA technology." Initial sponsors for www.umatoday.com include Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Motorola Networks, Reef Point Systems, Netrake, an AudioCodes company, and Kineto Wireless, all companies with products supporting the UMA standard. For sponsorship information, or for information about posting materials to the site, please contact info@umatoday.com. About UMA Technology Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology is the 3GPP global standard for fixed/mobile convergence. UMA enables secure, scaleable access to mobile voice, data and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. services over broadband IP access networks. By deploying UMA technology, mobile operators can deliver a number of compelling fixed-mobile convergence services. The most well-known application of UMA technology is dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi handsets, which enable subscribers to automatically roam and handover n. 1. The act of relinquishing property or authority etc. to another; as, the handover of occupied territory to the original posssessors; the handover of power from the military back to the civilian authorities s>. between cellular networks and public and private WLANs. |
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