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LTE-Advanced

ERCOM Mobipass Network Emulator LTE-A Ready

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Paris, September 16, 2013 - ERCOM has announced that its Carrier Aggregation (CA) feature on its LTE test equipment Mobipass is fully in production and currently being used by Tier1 OEM Vendors, ahead of this week’s LTE Asia.

LTE-A 3.5GHz Trial Network in Japan Achieves 770 Mbps Max Download Speed

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LTE-Advanced

Huawei has announced that it had helped build a 3.5GHz LTE-A trial network in Japan. A recent demonstration of the network showed it could support a max 770 Mb/s download speed by making use of LTE-A technologies like Carrier Aggregation (CA), Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) and Cloud BB (Baseband).

CSL to Deploy LTE Advanced at 300 Mbps in Hong Kong

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CSL's LTE-Advanced Demo

Hong Kong's CSL Limited is now set to deploy LTE Advanced at 300 Mbps, operator announced today. In the demonstration of this technology, 1O1O and one2free showcased theoretical peak download speeds of up to 300 Mbps.

Anite leads LTE-A CA test case validations at PTCRB

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Fleet, Hampshire, UK – 6 September, 2013 – Anite, a global leader in wireless equipment testing technology, today announced that it has achieved validation for the most number of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation (CA) protocol test cases by the PTCRB (a wireless device certification forum led by North American mobile operators)

Smart Trials LTE-Advanced in Philippines

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Smart LTE

Philippines’ wireless services provider Smart Communications has recently conducted LTE-Advanced trials in Metro Manila and Davao City. According to operator, Smart's test facilities achieved speeds of up to 209.66 mbps at trials held first in Makati City in cooperation with network equipment provider Huawei Philippines.

SK Telecom and Rohde & Schwarz to Develop Active Antenna System

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SK Telecom

South Korea's telecom service provider SK Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Rohde & Schwarz, a Germany-based manufacturer of test and measurement equipment for mobile radios and radio communications, on joint research and development of next-generation antenna technologies. 

3GPP Release 11: Understanding the Standards for HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced Enhancements

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This 4G Americas whitepaper is intended to provide a brief review of some of the key specifications in 3GPP Release 11. 

3GPP Rel-11 standards for HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced were frozen in December 2012 with the core network protocols stable in December 2012 and radio access network (RAN) protocols stable in March 2013.

Telstra and Ericsson Make LTE-Advanced Call on 1800MHz and 900MHz on Commercial Network

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Ericsson MINI-LINK

Ericsson has announced that Australia's Telstra has used the LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation technology on 1800MHz and 900MHz spectrum bands on a commercial network.

Anite leads the way in LTE-Advanced with eICIC testing capability

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Fleet, Hampshire, UK – 06 August, 2013 – Anite, a global leader in wireless equipment testing technology, today announced that it is first to release a flexible and comprehensive eICIC (enhanced Inter Cell Interference Coordination) enriched LTE-Advanced device testing solution, based on its Development Toolset.

IS-Wireless announces availability of LTE STACKS!

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Thursday, June 27, 2013 - IS-Wireless, a Warsaw-based LTE/LTE-Advanced IPR provider, announces availability of SON-ready LTE/LTE-A protocol stacks for UE and eNB. LTE STACKS are advanced software libraries realizing functions of L2 and L3 protocols. They are written in ANSI  C according to the latest 3GPP E-UTRA Rel.