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Gradual and Protracted Development of LTE

Even though LTE's deployment as a dominant 4G technology is gradual and protracted, mobile chipset manufacturers have mapped their product roadmap.

Chipset manufacturers, such as Broadcom, Infineon and Qualcomm, have established LTE product development plans, according to market research firm In-Stat. Further, ma… Continue

Added by Randy Bell on March 6, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

LTE Training Courses ... About

Just added a couple of videos on LTE training - Apis (Swedish company) administers on-line training courses that relate to wireless / mobile technology: LTE WIMAX etc.

See videos in the video section below.
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Added by Randy Bell on March 5, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

White Paper: Optimizing a DSP Architecture for Wireless Baseband

The high computation demands of next-generation cellular and broadcast wireless require both higher efficiency and greater flexibility in baseband processing. New DSP architectures are needed for applications with heavy workloads with complex filtering, FFT, and MIMO matrix operations.

The ConnX Baseband Engine is a configuration option package for Tensilca's Xtensa LX customizable processor core. It implements a 3-way VLIW, 8-way SIMD architecture that can sustain 16 multiply-add oper… Continue

Added by Paula E. Jones on March 3, 2010 at 11:49pm — No Comments

LTE and Healthcare: Verizon Case

Verizon Wireless plans to launch its LTE wireless network in 25 to 30 markets later this year. LTE will support the future of mobile healthcare technology by offering greater network capacity and speed than today's 3G coverage. It will also support innovative solutions that will further enhance the quality of patient care and the efficiency of hospital bus… Continue

Added by Mindy Goldman on March 2, 2010 at 5:44pm — No Comments

LTE V Wimax still ?? Ericsson has set a world record by showcasing LTE/4G with a speed of 1 gigabit per second in the downlink

Ericsson has set a world record by showcasing LTE/4G with a speed of 1 gigabit per second in the downlink Continue

Added by Narender kumar on February 26, 2010 at 5:38am — 3 Comments

It’s not wise to sell Mercedes to everyone

By BP Tiwari, www.beyond4g.org

I was reading an article by Andrew Mitchell in which I found KDDI president and chairman, Tadashi Onodera in MWC, "explained to the audience that the economics of mobile broadband and flat rate pricing are "a big headache for operators." The panel also reviewed the challenge operator's face in finding ways to pay for infrastructure. Flat rate pricing and the ever-increasing demand for data services to delive… Continue

Added by BPT on February 20, 2010 at 5:10am — No Comments

MWC 2010: The LTE Advance Continues

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Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 19, 2010 at 3:32pm — No Comments

Managing data networks

BY BP TIWARI, www.beyond4g.org
I was reading the newest report from Cisco VNI studies and it is worthy to note some of the following data trends which were captured in collaboration with 20 leading Internet service providers. Cisco published "The growth of data centric devices is humongous and mobile data will roughly double each year from 2008 to 2013"[1]. Acc… Continue

Added by BPT on February 17, 2010 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Alcatel-Lucent is "extremely satisfied with the current momentum" regarding LTE

The company is already conducting 40 trials of LTE with 23 different operators. Last week Alcatel and Ericsson were selected as key suppliers for AT&T LTE network roll-out in the U.S. "And we may count some more after this week" Philippe Keryer, president of Alcatel's carrier products group, said at the Mobile World Congress. Continue

Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 16, 2010 at 3:57pm — 1 Comment

LTE goes to Russia?

Russian mobile operators are looking for areas to test the communication services for LTE standard. Russian regulators are supposed to recommend zones for LTE trials by 15 March 2010:

http://www.linkedin.com/newsArticle?viewDiscussion=&articleID=110358191&gid=136744

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Added by Geliy Sharov on February 16, 2010 at 3:19pm — 1 Comment

Speed Race: Ericsson vs Huawei

The Clash of Titans: MWC 2010

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Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 15, 2010 at 8:46pm — No Comments

Mobile World Congress 2010 - Focus on LTE

Experts and analysts anticipate that LTE products will feature prominently at the upcoming Mobile World Congress. Ericsson will demonstrate products from 5 vendors, including Samsung. Telefonica and N

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Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 12, 2010 at 2:17am — No Comments

Another big news from Europe

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Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 10, 2010 at 8:40pm — No Comments

Big News Today: AT&T picks up Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent for LTE deployment

AT&T Inc. today announced the selection of Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as equipment suppliers for the planned deployment of its higher-speed LTE mobile broadband network.… Continue

Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 10, 2010 at 8:34pm — No Comments

Qualcomm's White Paper: Winning Strategies for Wireless Data

Read this interesting analysis by Qualcomm on how to improve wireless data services. This paper presents strategies employed by wireless operators that have successfully introduced broadband data offerings to expand services, grow subscriber base and increase profits.

To read more follow this link http://bit.ly/dCJRdz

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Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 10, 2010 at 2:01am — No Comments

Attention to network managers! Wireless broadband trends

Several trends are converging that will bring the wireless Internet capacity gap front and centre to the attention of network managers:

* Device convergence. The distinction between a wireless PC and a smartphone continues to blur, with devices increasingly serving both as computers and communicators. This, in tu… Continue

Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 9, 2010 at 8:42pm — No Comments

LTE vs other 4G options

Totally agree with John Cunliffe, CTO for Ericsson North Western Europe, - with LTE users get a simpler network, because it’s all IP. There’s no circuit switched element and the headline speeds are faster. There is a possibility of getting to 1Gbps assuming the spectrum’s available. Users also get much reduced latency, whi… Continue

Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 9, 2010 at 8:38pm — No Comments

Making a case of beamforming for commercial deployments

By : BP Tiwari , www.beyond4g.org

I have been observing emergence of new 4G technologies for last couple of years and one of the most talked multi antenna concepts is beamforming. BF is one of the much awaited technologies that helps operators to increase capacity in network and also helps in overall network quality by reducing interference in network.

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Added by BPT on February 9, 2010 at 4:14pm — No Comments

LTE Broadband Wireless Access 2010 Webinar Series on Feb. 16

Don't miss it! It should be really interesting to hear wha

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Added by Jennifer Duncan on February 7, 2010 at 8:57pm — No Comments

Femtocells & Relays in Advanced Wireless Networks

With the huge growth of mobile phones complementing with a revolution wireless network technologies there has been a huge change in the consumer's lifestyle and dependence on mobile phones. With the emergence of smart phones (mobile web) consumers are replacing not only their fixed lines but have started downsizing the number of personal computers in home. But they have far way to go as this demographic for this adoption is quite limited due to various factors. Fundamentally, consumers want grea… Continue

Added by NEIL SHAH on February 5, 2010 at 9:56pm — No Comments