14 DAY TRIAL // Huawei, a worldwide leading provider of telecommunications network solutions, which serves a number of 36 of the largest 50 operators in the world, announced on Monday that it had opened a Long Term Evolution (LTE) laboratory in Richardson, Texas. According to the company, the opening of the new laboratory is meant to offer mobile phone carriers in the United States and industry partners in North America the possibility to explore the potential of LTE technology, as well as to learn about Huawei's latest LTE solutions.
The new facility was initially established with prototype equipment back in 2008, but has been upgraded to support commercial product releases for North America. The laboratory already implemented the first commercial LTE solution from Huawei not too long ago, aimed at wireless carriers in the US and Canada. Moreover, the company also announced that local research teams would have the opportunity to work closely with operators for the testing of LTE solutions before deploying them.
“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 vice president 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 very pleased to be able to offer the latest in LTE multi-band technology as carriers partner with Huawei to deliver advanced mobile broadband services.”
According to Huawei, the new lab has been equipped with its SingleRAN DBS3900 eNodeB, USN 9810 unified service node, UGW 9811 unified gateway and M2000 element management system, as well as with up to date software solutions. The Huawei SingleRAN, the company adds, comes with software-defined radio technology that enables it to provide support for CDMA/LTE and UMTS/LTE dual-mode operation, as the company has showcased at CTIA Wireless 2008 in AWS spectrum.