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The sessions included mobile video streaming and various high data rate applications. The demonstrations also included execution of applications priority which guarantees throughput using quality of service (QoS) aspects of the LTE standards.
Cox will use the Nationwide Sprint Network to quickly enter the market in 2009. At the same time, Cox is concurrently building its own 3G wireless network for additional market launches in 2009. Cox will also test 4G technology utilizing LTE (long term evolution). Earlier this year, Cox joined CTIA (the international association for the wireless telecommunications industry), the Rural Cellular Association and CDMA Development Group (CDG).
Qualcomm has completed the world’s first data call using High-Speed Packet
Access Plus (HSPA+) network technology. The call achieved a data transfer
rate of more than 20 Mbps in a 5 MHz channel. HSPA+ will allow operators
to double the data and triple the voice capacity of their networks compared to
current HSPA deployments. The successful data throughput was achieved on
Qualcomm’s
Virgin Media has teamed with Nortel and Juniper Networks to prepare to meet ongoing network demands from its customers for ever-increasing speed and bandwidth.
The 40G North-South trial, on Virgin Media’s existing 10G network, shows how Virgin Media is ready to respond to the growing customer appetite for bandwidth-hungry entertainment services such as catch-up TV, video-on-demand, advanced multimedia communications and high speed Internet with up to 20Mb and 50Mb now in trials.
The successful 40G trial, conducted over a 350km (217 mile) span of Virgin Media’s current UK 10G network, demonstrated the economic feasibility of optimizing existing optical network assets and scaling the network to achieve market-leading transmission rates.
Infineon Technologies AG announced that Samsung
Electronics, Inc., Seoul, Korea, has chosen Infineon’s HSDPA Platform
XMM 6080 for their new family of HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) mobile handsets.
Samsung is introducing a comprehensive family using the Infineon XMM
6080 platform. The platform includes the HSDPA/EDGE baseband, power
management, single chip 3.5G RF transceiver and is complemented by
Infineon’s protocol stack for HEDGE phones.
This solution enables customers to significantly
reduce their component count, footprint, complexity and cost of
designs. The XMM 6080 platform will enable Samsung to
introduce a wide range of new HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) phones reusing the
proven Infineon core architecture.
Infineon has already started volume shipments of its platform. The
Samsung HEDGE phones with the XMM 6080 are expected to be available in
the second quarter of calendar year 2008.
"One of our prototypes - a 3.5G BlackBerry. It's very fast over third-generation networks that have HSDPA," said Lazadaris.
Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE - Long Term Evolution - the technology developed within the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization.
The selection of LTE provides Verizon and Vodafone joint owners of Verizon Wireless an opportunity to adopt a common global access platform with compatibility to existing technologies of both companies. Trials will begin in 2008.
“Today’s 4G announcement, coupled with our Open Development initiative announced earlier this week present a major growth opportunity for Verizon Wireless,” said Doreen Toben, chief financial officer of Verizon. “Fourth generation’s higher data speeds will usher in a new era of wireless applications and appliances, all of which can benefit from connecting to the nation’s premier wireless network.”
WiMAX World attendees were treated to uninterrupted connections on the "WiMAX Love Boat" that cruised the Chicago River.The seamless service of web browsing, VoIP)calls, video streaming and MobiTV while moving past access point sites along the route of the cruise was provided by Motorola and Sprint. The system also worked on the streets and trains of Chicago.
Sprint plans on launching their Xohm mobile Internet in Chicago and D.C. markets by the end of this year.
According to a Rueters story AT&T plans to speed up it's data speeds when it upgrades to it network increasing upload speeds to a range of 500 to 800 kilobits per second from its current speed of
about 120 kbps. AT&T is comparatively slow to its rivals when it comes to data causing iPhone users to unlock their phones for better data speeds on other carriers.AT&T's recent study, proves that small business needs its wireless---four in 10 (42 percent) of small business owners surveyed said they could not survive -- or it would be a major challenge to survive -- without wireless technology.
Motorola today announced it will be showcasing its mobile WiMAX chipset modem
solution at WiMAX World USA. The chipset is part of
Motorola's new "controlled application centric architecture" that will support 3G and 4G mobile devices.
Dsigned to
deliver ultra-high-speed functionality through thin devices, this WiMAX
chipset modem solution is optimized for both size and low power
consumption to further connect consumers around the globe with mobile
wireless broadband. It is scheduled to be released in early 2008.
Giorgio Armani is working with Samsung to design a series of consumer electronics devices, beginning with a classy credit-card sized mobile phone that has a touch-sensitive screen, 3 megapixel camera and Bluetooth. An added feature is a haptical UI, where users can feel an immediate mild vibration when they touch icons on the display.
The phone will be available first in Europe for 650 Euros, about US $915, In addition to working together on the phone, the two companies will design an LCD TV, to be unveiled in January.
"WiMAX for mobile broadband is coming of age," says Berge Ayvazian, conference co-chair and chief strategy officer at Yankee Group.
