LTE is Long Term Evolution Technology
January 4, 2009
If you ask what is in store for the future for mobile phones, you carry the chances of hitting one acronym frequently; LTE that stands for Long Term Radio Evolution. It is a 3G based technology that is being fastly panned to be commercialised. In fact, a German technology firm had started researching on LTE concept that is Release 8's 3GPP research item, as early as by 2006 half way. It has come a long way today that in the September month of 2008, a moving car test was conducted to rate the calibre of this technology in Bonn, Germany by Nortel networks and mobile operator T-Mobile jointly. Since, LTE technology has emphatically passed this test, today you can start dreaming of mobile communication data downloading that is as swift as fixed fiber links.
Recently LG too, had demonstrated a modem chip that should be the crucial factor, in the creation of an arguable fourth generation handset using this technology. The technology world stood dumbstruck, when this chip flaunted by LG in a research lab in Anyang, Korea, achieved the upload speeds of 20 Mbps and download speeds of 60 Mbps. This is astonishing, considering the fact that today's fastest mobile phone's download speed is restricted to 7.2 Mbps with the help of HSDPA technology. These days, higher download speeds are increasingly called for, as people are more and more getting inclined towards using their mobile phones to watch movies or enjoy music. It is expected that with the help of the new technology, a 700MB movie file can be downloaded in less than a minute. Thanks to a download speed of 100 Mbps. Apart from this, a total number of four high definition movies also can be streamed simultaneously, without any buffering, by this technology.
A novel radio access technology is implemented by LTE, which bodes well for IP-based traffic largely. Another advantage of this technology is its offering an uncomplicated upgrading track from existing 3G networks. A mobile networks core architecture also may evolve from LTE that would be known as System Architecture Evolution, which can effectuate significant perormance augmentations over 3G. This technology, further can enhance spectral efficiency with double the efficacy of 3G and HSPA standards. The numerous wireless broadband networks of the times can exploit the higher data speeds and capacity evolved here, as good as any other media application. Other significant advantages presented by this technology are; cost reduction per bit, services increment at low costs, Usage flexibility of new, as well as existing frequency bands, open interfaces, simple architecture, and a considerable reduction in terminal power consumption.
The LTE technology is called 4G by many, though its precursor scientists insist on calling it super 3G or 3.9G technology. It is expected that very soon after its implementation, two third of the mobile broadband users will resort to either HSPA or LTE. It is widely presumed that 2010 would experience the much awaited LTE network fields deployment. That says, you can tighten your seat belts for a wild shopping spree amongst low cost but high end enterprise smartphones.
