In recent years there has been an increasing demand for individualized telecommunications services, with user mobility and service portability as essential features. An important consequence of individualisation is the requirement to support mobile services in any kind of network. UMTS will have the capability of offering new high-bandwidth mobile services, data, video, voice and other information services. This includes enhancements of B-ISDN signalling and deployment of distributed databases and distributed processing capabilities together with relevant protocols. For the radio access network, the DECT standard with functional enhancements is used in Phase 1 of the project.
Applications considered for the user trial include e-mail, remote host access and file transfer.
The trial runs from May 1997. In Phase 2, experiments and developments focus on enhancements required to support personal and terminal mobility in a B-ISDN core network. Applications will include multimedia data retrieval, multimedia direct playing and collaborative work. In order to avoid any violation of EMC regulations, no wireless service will be deployed in the Hospital.