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Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Agere Systems | Subject: Sceptre HPU
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 January 2005

General availability for UMTS/Edge
solution

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Available now from Agere Systems is a chipset and software solution for mass market, dual-mode UMTS/Edge multimedia mobile handsets enabling seamless handovers between 3G/UMTS and 2.5G/Edge networks.

Available now from Agere Systems is a chipset and software solution for mass market, dual-mode UMTS/Edge multimedia mobile handsets enabling seamless handovers between 3G/UMTS and 2.5G/Edge networks Agere's Sceptre HPU solution, which sampled to lead customers in July 2004, integrates a dual-mode software core based on a proven and tested GPRS and Edge protocol stack that has been incorporated into millions of wireless handsets already deployed on the market today

Delivering up to 384Kbit/s downloads in 3G/UMTS coverage areas and up to 220Kbit/s in 2.5G/Edge coverage areas, Agere's dual-mode technology provides data transmissions at rates that are seven times faster than most wireline PC dial-up connections.

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