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VIRTUALISATION The upgrade cards favour LTE over WiMAX: Ericsson CTO
VIRTUALISATION The upgrade cards favour LTE over WiMAX: Ericsson CTO | The upgrade cards favour LTE over WiMAX: Ericsson CTO |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 13 January 2009 | |
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Addressing a gathering of analysts at Ericsson's LTE centre of excellence in Melbourne Australia, Eriksson explained the benefits of carriers and countries choosing LTE over WiMAX along the following lines: He said that China needed a "face saving" upgrade path from its home-grown 3G technology, TD-SCDMA, to a next gen technology, and had decided on LTE over WiMAX. A country like China with its massive population and manufacturing base already makes a huge impact on LTE and the ongoing development of LTE technology for the rest of the world – an advantage that could have been WiMAX’s, had Intel managed to convince China to go with WiMAX instead of LTE. Given LTE is a standard the telco operators demanded from the equipment manufacturers, rather than the other way around of equipment manufacturers delivering a standard to telcos (as was the case with 3G), it makes sense that more telcos are interested in LTE than WiMAX. In addition, LTE doesn’t mean the immediate dismantling of HSPA networks. Just as GSM networks are still in widespread use today, LTE technology will be supplemented by existing HSPA, HSDPA, WCDMA and GSM networks around the world. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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