LTE Broadband Live in Geneva

Motorola announced today that they are to provide the World’s first live 2.6GHz LTE Broadband drive demonstration for CMCC at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva.

The fully deployed LTE Broadband network will be live in the streets of Geneva to support China Mobile Communications Corporation’s (CMCC) presence at the Geneva PALEXPO during ITU Telecom World 2009.

During Motorola’s Home and Networks Mobility LTE drive tour, visitors will ride in Motorola’s LTE van to experience the real-life performance of TD-LTE, including mobility and hand-over and a number of demanding applications. These applications will include High Definition (HD) video streaming on the downlink and uplink, Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Video Conferencing and High-speed Internet browsing.

In addition, Motorola will be providing a demonstration of TD-LTE on the CMCC exhibition booth, showcasing downlink throughput of over 100 megabits per second (Mbps), yes you read that correct, over 100 Mbps.

“We are very excited to support CMCC in bringing the world’s first live 2.6GHz TD-LTE drive demo that delivers compelling media mobility to a trade show as important as ITU Telecom World 2009,” said Bruce Brda, senior vice president and general Manager, wireless networks, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility. “This demonstrates the maturity of our TD-LTE solutions running effectively in a challenging real-life environment. We are seeing great interest in TD-LTE, because it enables operators with TDD spectrum to deliver increased capacity and a lower cost per bit. TD-LTE accelerates the delivery of rich personalized media experiences to consumers and makes LTE a truly encompassing global technology standard.”

The drive tour showcases Motorola’s second-generation Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based products and a set of core networks running the latest specifications software and related application servers. Within the van, a TD-LTE device will receive and transmit the Over-the-Air (OTA) data including HD video from and to the application servers and high-speed data from and to the application servers and high-speed data from and to the Internet.

Motorola’s TD-LTE solution is comprised of second-generation OFDM-based products, which include:

• A Base Controller Unit (BCU2) that supports TD-LTE, FDD-LTE and WiMAX
• A Remote Radio Unit (RRU) that supports both WiMAX and LTE

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