• Reduce cellular transmission bandwidth while maintaining service quality
• Enable controlled introduction of early 3G services with no additional capital investments
• Save on colocation costs with smallest devices in the market
• Support optimization for any codec: HR, FR, EFR, AMR
• Allow full service coverage by supporting data, GPRS and EDGE over multiple timeslots
• Data compression enables further bandwidth savings
• Facilitate interoperability with equipment from major switch vendors
• Eliminate need for external GPS clocking with clock regeneration over Ethernet transport