Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband access, carrier and enterprise IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work [...]
Kathleen Regalado
LTE, or Long Term Evolution, is a a 4th generation (4G) mobile broadband standard and is aimed to be the successor to the 3G technologies GSM/UMTS. It is currently in development and is considered the competitor to WiMax. Carriers will include Verizon, T-Mobile, Vodafone, AT&T, and many more worldwide. This technology will provide broadband services [...]
The French vendor Alcatel-Lucent has completed the world’s first LTE data call on the 800MHz European Digital Dividend (EDD) spectrum in Europe. The EDD call was completed at Alcatel-Lucent’s 4G/LTE solutions center in Stuttgart, the firm said it transmitted high-definition video streaming and that Alcatel-Lucent’s commercial infrastructure platforms and prototype mobile devices were utilized in [...]
Motorola’s LTE solution is comprised of its OFDM broadband platform and a selection of radio options that include multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and smart antennas. It also features Motorola’s advanced self-organizing network (SON) solution. Motorola’s WBR 500 series LTE eNodeB offers flexible deployment options with frame based-mounted radios, remote radio heads and tower top radios to [...]
Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business announced today that Motorola is the first company to successfully complete and pass the time-division duplex long-term evolution (TD-LTE) key functionalities test initiated by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The testing measures high-bandwidth network capacity and a number of key TD-LTE features, demonstrating another milestone of [...]
Telecom service and equipment providers, including AT&T, Verizon, Nokia, and Samsung, announced a new standard for delivering compatible voice and messaging services using Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. The standard has been named the One Voice initiative. According to Nokia, the One Voice initiative aims to achieve an industry agreement on a harmonized way to [...]
Nortel continues to sell off its assets, and it has agreed to sell off some of its packet core assets related to Long-Term Evolution technology to Hitachi for $10 million. Nortel has been hit hard by the economic recession, and has been forced to file for bankrupt protection. Due to the recession Nortel has also [...]
According to JKontherun, LTE promises to be a major step up in the mobile broadband game. Verizon has announced that they will be adopting LTE. They have been hard at work to get their rollout ready in the US for next year. They have tested LTE networks in Boston and Seattle and plan to launch [...]
