A New Revolution in Wireless Communications

By Mike Yoho

LTE is the project name for the newest generation of high speed cellular telephony

Marketed as 4G

Project of 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project )

Flat IP architecture utilizing IPv6

High throughput (peak Mbps 326.4 86.4 )

Low latency ( < 5ms)

Increased spectrum flexibility

Fluid mobility to legacy standards

Tower transmissions of up to 100 km with reasonable performance by utilizing the 900 MHz frequency band for use by rural areas

Increased spectrum flexibility supporting slices as small as 1.4 MHz to as large as 20 MHz

Support for Multi Broadcast Single Frequency Network (service used for mobile TV)

TeliaSonera opened first publicly available network in Scandinavia on December 14th 2009

Verizon to have infrastructure to support 100 million users in 30 regions by November 2010

AT&T to have infrastructure to replace current GSM network by Summer 2011

LTE is receiving almost unanimous support from the cellular industry

A new standard (LTE Advanced) is in the works which is fully 4G compliant

LTE advanced will support gigabit speeds