Vodafone Test & Innovation Center Newsletter Q4 / 2007

The Vodafone Test & Innovation Center recently organized and hosted the 3rd Vodafone Innovation Days, a two-day event which took place in Düsseldorf on October 16/17, 2007. Vodafone and its partners from the Telco and IT industries presented a selection of innovative business solutions and new technologies.

J. Doppelfeld-Watson (m), Prof. G. Fettweis (r)

A wide range of live demonstrations was supplemented by presentations by telecommunication technology experts including Jeanette Huber (member of the board, Future Institute Kelkheim), Prof. Gerhard Fettweis (Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, TU Dresden), Georg Benzer (CTO, Arcor), Dr. Bernd Wiemann (Head of Vodafone Group R&D Germany), Björn Wiesemann (Technical coordinator, RTL Television) and Hartmut Kremling (CTO, Vodafone D2).

Customized test progress reporting now online

J. Huber G. Benzer Journalists from the various print and broadcast media and more than 200 enterprise customers and visitors were welcomed to the fair.

Here the guests had a unique opportunity to find out more about the advantages and benefits on coming business solutions, such as Vodafone IP Phone Pro, Seamless Navigation and Group Communication, or new service ideas including Vodafone Access Point and Mobile Webcam, as well as experiencing the latest embedded notebooks and business mobiles.

One of the Innovation days’ live demonstrations

The Vodafone Test & Innovation Center has implemented an enhanced Web-based reporting tool to automatically generate customized reports tailored to specific customer needs.

The reporting has already been applied in more than 30 international test projects with vendors like Ericsson and Nortel Networks.

The reporting tool frees the test project head from the burden of creating routine reporting tasks and provides automated status reports to all project stakeholders, e.g. weekly management summaries, detailed daily status reports or a final summary with project close.

Web-based test report

Ladies and Gentlemen, These days, the Telco and IT business is characterized by market saturation and increasing competition. At the same time, customers expect a constant flow of new and innovative high-quality products at ever-decreasing prices. Vodafone copes with all these require-ments by managing quality during the whole product life cycle. Emphasis is laid on extensive validation of the final customer experience. The Vodafone Test & Innovation Center offers its services also to customers beyond Vodafone, All customers can benefit as well from the center’s extensive test expertise and end-to-end testing infrastructure that uses modern technology in a real-world multi-vendor network. This edition of our quarterly published newsletter appeals to our customers informing about recent events and activities. This year’s Innovation Days have been very successful. I had the pleasure to meet some of you there and to present the portfolio of our Test & Innovation Center. One of the latest news is the availability of the UMTS 900 MHz Technology for your terminal development and testing. For more detailed information please visit our website www.vodafone-testcenter.com.

Yours,

Jill Doppelfeld-Watson Director Vodafone Test & Innovation Center

Autumn is Innovation Season at Vodafone

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and Smartcard Web Server. The second one focused on the Broadcast protocol (DVB-H).

The feedback from all the participants was extremely positive and the event received a new high-score rating in comparison with the previous twenty TestFest events. The rating covers 24 categories such as technical systems, onsite support and the overall organization.

Due to the excellent performance and the opportunities of the test facility the Vodafone Test & Innovation Center had been selected by the OMA to set up the pilot “Virtual TestFest” for worldwide remote testing.

The latest terminal prototypes can now be tested on each of the mobile communication technology platforms available within the Vodafone Group. In other words, the multi-vendor test environment now covers the communications protocols GSM (900 / 1800 MHz), GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA (2100 / 900 MHz).

provides an easy-to-operate control panel that allows the user to switch channels (MobileTV, video-on-demand), change audio volume, vote via SMS or view the electronic program guide.

To meet the quality and time-to-market requirements, the Vodafone Test & Innovation Center successfully applied an iterative “development – delivery – test” approach in close cooperation with the vendor.

Facts and figures Our team 300 experts and specialist engineers Our facilities

• More than 7,000 square meters of floor space

• Facilities to support development, system integration and testing at any stage in the product life cycle

• End-to-end testing and test automa-tion services

• A complete customized design and build service

• Load and stress testing using state-of-the-art software and hardware

• Integrated fixed mobile convergence infrastructure

Contact

Our team is at your disposal for further information or any questions about our services • Development and Testing

Environment • Automated Test Solutions • Testing on Demand • Enabling Business Solutions Please contact us:

+49 (0)211-533-1100 vodafone-testcenter@vodafone.com

Vodafone Test & Innovation Center

Vodafone D2 GmbH Am Seestern 1 – D-40547 Duesseldorf

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Worldwide mobile technology expertise gathers at Vodafone to test future technologies

International experts testing upcoming technologies und protocols at the OMA Testfest

The new mobile client application “Vodafone Interactive MobileTV Player”

Vodafone IMTV Player has been introduced to enhance the existing mobile TV service on the Vodafone Live! portal. The client

“Vodafone Interactive MobileTV Player” approved

The Vodafone Test & Innovation Center recently hosted the Open Mobile Alliance’s (OMA) regular two-week TestFest for the third time in its end-to-end multi-vendor test environment for evaluating the upcoming technologies of the next two years. Around 150 test experts representing more than 20 companies from more than 10 countries from all over the world joined the event.

The TestFest was divided into two test streams. The first one was dedicated to Enabler Releases and Specifications (Device Management, Digital Rights Management, Firmware Update Management, Client Server Protocol

UMTS 900 MHz Technology ready for Terminal Testing The Vodafone Test & Innovation Center, which provides centralized terminal testing services for the Vodafone Group, has successfully integrated the new 900 MHz UMTS (3G) technology within its test facility. It combines the speed of 3G technology with the favorable radio characteristics of the 900 MHz spectrum, i.e. wide area coverage.