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Seminar - An Overview of Communications Technologies

Module 9 - Wireless Systems and Technologies                                                                                 Slide 30 of 80                                                                                                    ________________

Third - Generation (3G) Systems Characteristics

                                    Higher Data Transmission rates 

                                    Consolidating Existing Wireless Systems

                                    Allow Multi-media Applications

                                    Support Packet-Switched and Circuit-Switched Traffic

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3 G wireless systems technologies will support multi-mega bits per second data transmission supporting bandwidth-hungry multi-media services like full motion video, video conferencing and the Internet-Web. The standard is designed to support packet-switched and circuit-switched traffic.

Ericsson, a developers of IMT-2000, expects 100 million users on the system by 2004.