Indian telecom operator Aircel and Huawei have recently conducted GSM/UMTS/LTE-TDD trial on Aircel's existing GSM/UMTS network in India. The trial was conducted using Huawei's end-to-end system and Qualcomm's MDM9600 multimode chipset on Aircel's existing GSM/UMTS network. 

During this trial Huawei and Qualcomm jointly executed Inter-RAT (Inter-Radio Access Technology related cases covering multiple live handover scenarios across GSM/UMTS/LTE technologies. During the trial, other high speed data services were demonstrated, including video streaming via YouTube, video on demand and high definition video surveillance, which met the key performance indicators (KPIs) expected from an LTE-TDD system.

The trial used Huawei E392, a LTE-TDD/FDD/UMTS/GSM/CDMA multi-mode USB dongle and covered end-to-end interoperability of services & applications, radio access and core network. 

"Aircel is pleased to be the first telecom service provider to have successfully experienced LTE-TDD functionality using multimode devices based on Qualcomm's MDM9600 chipset in our GSM/UMTS/LTE-TDD network provided by Huawei at Hyderabad. It will further equip us to offer a rich mobile broadband experience to the subscribers. This milestone is a clear testimony of the technological leadership and focused approach of these solution providers in close co-operation with Aircel." said Mr. Mallikarjun Rao, CTO of Aircel.