'Telecom to see technology convergence in two years'

India will have a core network that will converge all the technologies like Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Blue Tooth and others in next two years.

This was announced by Kanwalinder Singh, chief technical officer, Lucent Technology, while delivering the keynote address at 'Synpase 2004' a technical festival organised at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communications Technology (DA-IICT) at Gandhinagar.

The three-day festival, jointly organised by DA-IICT and Reliance Infocomm, concluded on Sunday. Major corporates and students representing 200 premier institutions across the country participated in the festival along with the students attached to the Reliance Group established institution.

The festival was organised to connect and bind aspects of technology and society through a series of panel discussions and . Leading technology and other related institutes in the country participated to discuss and explore information, communication and technology and their application towards technically feasible, culturally desirable and economically sustainable engineering solutions.

"The CDMA technology has been success in markets like India and in future, the CDMA technology will introduce the latest higher forward link and reverse link capacity which would raise the high capacity of voice in comparison to GSM technology. The CDMA network would work dynamically to cover maximum area possible."