LTE News
LTE or Long Term Evolution is a new standard set to become the dominant cellular technology around the world ahead of WiMAX, Qualcomm’s UMB and TD-SCDMA, developed specifically by China. The LTE name comes from the idea that GSM, 3GPP (W-CDMA) and 3GPP2 (CDMA2000) cellular systems will all evolve eventually to this single standard. LTE uses OFDMA modulation and treats everything as internet data, voice, video or images and carries them over thousands of parallel radio signals. LTE can be delivered using both Time Division Duplexing (TDD) or Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD). LTE is sometimes said to be 4G, sometimes not, since it is supposed to offer a total data rate of 1 Gbps in order to be called 4G, and that will not come until the upgrade LTE Advanced is finalized. First installations of LTE began during 2009 in Scandinavia and 2010 in the US and Japan, but has been delayed throughout the rest of Europe due to slow licensing of suitable spectrum and a lack of handsets.
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Ericsson hasn't exactly led the charge towards modern cellular network approaches such as Wi-Fi integration and small cells. But the Swedish vendor knows it will have to support these key trends, desp ...
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Samsung previews quad-core Exynos processor
22 February, 2012
Apart from Nvidia, chip giants remain cautious about multicore handsets, regarding battery life and integrated LTE as priorities
CEVA unveils its most flexible DSP platform yet
21 February, 2012
The firm's latest family of cores support a huge array of standards while slashing power consumption
Optus buys Vividwireless to secure 4G capacity
20 February, 2012
SingTel's Australian arm snaps up former WiMAX player from Seven Group to support TD-LTE while Softbank goes live with 4G too
F5 buys Diameter pioneer Traffix
20 February, 2012
US firms adds management of LTE mobile signalling to its broad platform for managing IP quality and delivery
Europe and ITU pledge more broadband spectrum
20 February, 2012
ITU will formulate plan for new radio bands in time for 2015, while European Parliament passes rules for digital dividend
ALU set to win Telefonica's Spanish LTE deal
20 February, 2012
Would boost French firm in bid to grab Ericsson's top spot, while in Latin America it will see Virgin Mobile entering
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