Verizon announces 1xEV-DO trials.Verizon has announced plans to offer high-speed wireless data service that's comparable with wired broadband connections. Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. will also offer Wi-Fi (802.11b) service through a partnership with Wayport, providing connections between the Verizon Wireless wide area network (WAN) and more than 500 hotspots in hotels and airports across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Verizon Wireless data customers in Washington and San Diego will be the first to take advantage of the new 1xEV-DO service and applications. With virtual private network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) connections, data customers in both cities will be able to access the 1xEV-DO high-speed data network as an extension of their corporate local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) or intranet. With secure peak data transmission speeds of up to 2.4Mbps, Verizon Wireless' 1xEV-DO service will be faster than GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. and EDGE speeds. As an example, a 1MB e-mail attachment would take almost seven minutes to download via GPRS, one and a half minutes over an EDGE network, and just under 20 seconds over 1xEV-DO, 1xEV-DO subscribers will require a 1xEV-DO device to take advantage of the increased speeds. |
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