14 DAY TRIAL // Leading telecommunications infrastructure provider Nokia Siemens Networks and LG Electronics announced recently that they managed to achieve impressive data transfer speeds over an LTE network, namely a downlink data transfer rate of 100 Mbps, which is the maximum speed supported by a Class 3 LTE terminal. According to the duo, the achievement shows that significant progress has been made for the commercial LTE.
The LTE equipment that is set to be used by consumers is categorized in various classes based on the potential uplink and downlink data rates it can achieve, and Class 3 terminals are those expected to enjoy the wider usage when launched later during the ongoing year. The data call made on a Class 3 terminal at its 100Mbps limit has been made using Nokia Siemens Networks' LTE radio equipment (the Flexi Multiradio Base Station, Evolved Packet Core network elements and standards-compliant software) and LG Electronics' pre-commercial LTE USB modem.
“LTE is the super-fast mobile broadband technology that we are able to deliver today. It helps operators address the challenge of growing data traffic as well as delivering a superior end-user experience,” said Marc Rouanne, head of Network Systems, Nokia Siemens Networks. “We're driving the introduction of LTE through our collaboration with leading device vendors, such as LG ,and by providing a smooth and cost-efficient transition path to LTE via a software upgrade only.”
The two companies also announced that the data call was made as part of interoperability testing that Nokia Siemens Networks and LG are conducting in the 2100 MHz and 2600 MHz frequency bands at Nokia Siemens Networks' LTE R&D centers in Oulu, Finland, and Ulm, Germany. Both companies said that they planned on continuing the testing of LTE on various frequencies to improve performance.
“This successful data call at 100 Mbps shows the progress we have made towards commercial LTE deployments as well as our readiness to offer the high throughput performance expected with LTE,” said Go-hee Choi, vice president of LG Electronics Mobile Communication Technology Research Lab. “It builds on the interoperability tests we conducted last year with Nokia Siemens Networks, where we demonstrated a pre-requisite for commercial deployments of LTE.”