Ericsson conducted a demonstration of seamless, emergency mobile communications that combined IPv6, 3G (UMTS/WCDMA) and WLANs. The emergency system, called Guardian Angel, provides seamlessly communications and data (heart rate and blood pressure) for medical staff as a patient travels by ambulance. The information is transmitted via GSM/GPRS or UMTS/WCDMA. Once the ambulance reaches the hospital, the system can automatically switch over to an indoor WLAN hot spot. Data flows can use separate network interfaces in parallel. The demonstration was a joint effort within the 6WINIT project consisting of University Hospital at Tubingen, University of Stuttgart Computing Center, University of Bremen, University College London and Ericsson. It took place at Ericsson’s headquarters in Stockholm in the presence of invited EU-officials.
http://www.ericsson.com
Ericsson Conducts IPv6 Over 3G UMTS/WCDMA Demo
Share this article
Help others discover this reporting.
Explore More
From the Graveyard
You just read about Ericsson. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
BelAir Networks built Carrier-grade Wi-Fi and small cells. What became of it?
BelAir Networks brought Carrier-grade Wi-Fi and small cells to Wireless. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Ericsson. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Ericsson today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about IPv6. Here is what it replaced:
IPv4 served 1981–2011. What ultimately replaced it?
IPv4 32-bit addressing with best-effort datagram delivery and (post-CIDR) classless routing; NAT stretched its ~4.3 billion addresses far past exhaustion, keeping it alive despite IPv6. Its job passed to IPv6 — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
On this day
January 30From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.