UTStarcom announced strategic expansion plans for the North American market in order to grow beyond its core Asian customer base. The company is entering the North American market with four product sets:
- Broadband: ATM- and IP-based DSLAM and BRAS products
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CDMA PDSN Gateway: Wireless gateways based on CDMA 2000 Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) technology
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Optical: SONET and SDH optical solutions, ranging from OC-3 to 10G speeds
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Unified Messaging/Softswitch: UMS softswitch technology that supports SIP, IMAP4, LDAP, and Internet Voice Messaging (IVM)
UTStarcom has established 20 direct sales offices in 15 major metropolitan areas, including Boston, Newark, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco Bay Area; Chicago, and Kansas City. In addition, key support employees are deployed on-site at several Tier 1 carriers. UTStarcom’s worldwide professional service organization was developed through its acquisition of CommWorks. The company anticipates North American sales of $60-70 million for 2004.
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- UTStarcom has more than 45 million lines of capacity deployed in networks around the world, such as Yahoo! BB’s DSL network in Japan.