14 DAY TRIAL // Leading telecommunication-equipment and -service provider Nokia Siemens Networks announced today together with LG that they had managed to successfully complete the first end-to-end LTE (Long Term Evolution) interoperability tests using the 2100 MHz frequency band. According to the duo, the tests were conducted in this band due to the fact that it was the spectrum in which the first commercial LTE networks in Japan would be deployed.
Nokia Siemens Networks and LG announced that they had managed to complete successfully the first data calls of a series of end-to-end tests. Moreover, the two companies also said they had succeeded in demonstrating the interoperability between the Nokia Siemens Networks LTE equipment and Evolved Packet Core network elements, and LG Electronics' LTE USB Datacard.
The duo plans to move forward with the testing, and informed that they would conduct field tests with LG's LTE terminal at Nokia Siemens Networks' test network in Espoo and Ulm. Moreover, they also plan on making trials on operator networks. Following this step, the tests will then be extended to a wider range of frequency bands, including 2600 MHz and AWS/700.
“We are committed to bring commercial LTE to operator networks and a new, faster-than-ever broadband experience for end-users. Successfully conducted interoperability tests take us another step closer to realizing LTE commercialization,” Marc Rouanne, head of Radio Access, Nokia Siemens Networks, said.
The two companies also announced that the tests were aimed at covering a series of steps in end-to-end network configuration on commercial LTE hardware, among which the Flexi Multiradio Base Station and the Flexi NS and Flexi NG evolved packet core products were included, as well as standards-compliant software, not to mention the LTE USB Datacard from LG. The trials were conducted at the Nokia Siemens Networks LTE center of competence in Oulu, Finland, and received support from the R&D team in Ulm, Germany.