Wireless Architecture ( OWA ) – Defining China ' s Fourth Generation Mobile Communications

The wireless industry is rapidly transitioning from proprietary architecture to more flexible, cost effective open wireless architecture (OWA) systems. This transition is creating interesting challenges for developers, manufacturers, integrators, operators and end-users as they wrestle with complexities of open wireless systems. Fourth Generation (4G) Mobile Communications should not focus only on the data-rate increase and new air interface. 4G Mobile should instead converge the advanced wireless mobile communications and high-speed wireless access systems into an Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) platform which becomes the core of this emerging next generation mobile technology. Based on this OWA model, 4G mobile will deliver the best business cases to the wireless and mobile industries, i.e. cdma2000/ WLAN/ GPRS 3in-1 product, TD-SCDMA/WIMAX/WLAN 3-in-1 product, etc. Asia-Pacific is the most dynamic market of new generation mobile communications with over $100 Billion business in the next decade. The 4G mobile technology – convergence of wireless mobile and wireless access, will definitely drive this growth. Any single-architecture wireless system, including single 3G, HSDPA, WiMax, etc., is a transitional solution only, and will be replaced by open wireless architecture (OWA) system very soon where various different wireless standards can be integrated and converged on this open platform.