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Thinking LTE? Think Distributed
Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by LteWorld
in News, LTE
September 24, 2009 | Unstrung News Analysis - If there's one message about Long Term Evolution (LTE) to understand from the rash of wireless events recently, it's that it will be the most distributed wide-area network technology yet to be deployed.
The reason for this is simple: A deployment using multiple smaller cells -- rather than large but isolated cell sites -- will put more radios closer to users and help keep data speeds fast and consistent.