Huawei Opens LTE Lab in North America
Huawei,
a telecom network solutions provider, has announced the opening of a
Long Term Evolution (LTE) laboratory located in Richardson, Texas. It
says operators in North America are now able to further explore the
potential of LTE technology.
As the
LTE market is soon expected to grow, a
Juniper Research report found that revenues from
LTE mobile broadband subscribers will exceed $70 billion
globally by 2014. Main markets will be the developed nations of North
America, Western Europe, the Far East, and China, which together will
account for 90% of the market.
Initially established with prototype equipment in fall of 2008, the
Huawei facility has been upgraded to support commercial product releases for
North America. The lab recently implemented Huawei’s first commercial
LTE solution release targeted at operators in the United States and
Canada.
Additionally, local research and development teams are now able to work
more closely with North American operators to rigorously test LTE
systems before delivery, says the company.
“It is
a key step forward in our readiness to support customers launching LTE
in the United States and Canada with local facilities and resources,”
said Carl Liu, executive VP of Huawei North America. “Building on the
LTE field trial we did in AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) spectrum in
the U.S. last year, we are pleased to be able to offer the latest in LTE
multi-band technology as carriers partner with Huawei to deliver
advanced mobile broadband services.”
The lab
is equipped with Huawei’s SingleRAN DBS3900 eNodeB, USN 9810 unified
service node, UGW 9811 unified gateway, M2000 element management system,
and the latest versions of commercial software.
Huawei’s SingleRAN solution incorporates software-defined radio
technology to support CDMA/LTE and UMTS/LTE dual-mode operation, which
Huawei first demonstrated in AWS spectrum at CTIA Wireless 2008.
Among
other LTE players, Motorola has launched its LTE advanced
self-organizing network (SON) solution. It’s designed to help operators
reduce operational expenses on the deployment of their LTE
network. (Read:
Motorola Moves toward LTE)
In
February,
Motorola had deployed an LTE network
over which it decided to demonstrate live experiences moving through the
streets of Barcelona during the
Mobile World Congress 2009. LTE video
streaming was part of the display.
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