Nortel and Sierra Wireless are collaborating to jointly test and market solutions using High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). The companies have completed an initial series of live test calls, including the industry’s first using a commercial data card product. The companies completed the live test calls using Sierra Wireless AirCard 850 wireless wide area network cards and commercial UMTS network equipment from Nortel. The calls were made from a laptop computer in a moving automobile with connection speeds averaging 800kbits/s (with peak data rates in excess of 1Mbits/s). Broadband services demonstrated included high-resolution interactive gaming, multimedia music tracks, DVD-quality film and video, ‘push-to-watch’ services and access to large e-mail attachments. Commercial field trials with the Sierra Wireless AirCard 850 are expected to begin in 2005.

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