LTE Overview

LTE designated as a fourth-generation (4G) mobile specification, LTE is designed to provide multi-megabit bandwidth, more efficient use of the radio network, latency reduction, and improved mobility. This combination aims to enhance the subscriber's interaction with the network and further drive the demand for mobile multimedia services. With wireless broadband, users can more readily access their Internet services, such as online television, blogging, social networking, and interactive gaming - all on the go.

Changes in mobile communications have always been evolutionary, and the deployment of LTE will be the same. It will be a transition from 3G to 4G over a period of several years, as is the case still with the transition from 2G to 3G. As a result, mobile operators must look for strategies and solutions that will enhance their existing 3G networks, while addressing their 4G deployment requirements without requiring a "forklift" upgrade.

Specifically, mobile operators need the multimedia core network to be readily upgradeable to meet the requirements of the System Architecture Evolution (SAE), the 4G core network architecture of the LTE standard.

Solutions already deployed in the market may include many of the elements required of the 4G network, including integrated intelligence, simplified network architecture, high bandwidth performance capabilities, and enhanced mobility. Only solutions capable of supporting multiple functions in a single node through a software upgrade will protect today's investment for tomorrow's network, and avoid a costly replacement of the existing systems.



Wednesday, 4 April 2012

3ants(Engage, Enable, Enrich) - The Review

3ants(Engage, Enable, Enrich) , is a Personalized Multimedia Tool (PTM). This is the medium used to tag and share information on LTE(Long Term Evolution) technology for Mobile and Satellite Communications assignment. Through my experience experimenting on this tool I found out that it is a fairly moderate tool in terms of technical wise.
              At the beginning the PTM was still a confusing tool to use even though after being brief by Mr Simon. The process of registering inside the system consume a lot of time and we had to save page by page where I did the mistake of assuming the next button would save and go to the next level of the process. Besides that, the tagging and sharing also had some glitch at the beginning where I uploaded few article and videos in the PTM and it did show the tagging and sharing history for that particular day. When I logged in the next day my articles still exist but the history of it are gone. This prompted me to tag my own articles and videos again. The good news about this is the issue with tagging and sharing have been resolved recently.
              The PTM also always redirect to a different website that is powering it. This made the process of adding information consuming a lot of time. Furthermore, we need to update our profile every time we are logging in to the system made the system less efficient. Other than that the system was a good information exchange tool. There are still few glitches to amend once they are done this system will be a reliable system.

6 Key Trends Driving the Evolution to LTE

     this article lets us know what is the main for driving the people to venture into LTE or 4G where it offers service providers faster data rates, deliver higher traffic allowances, increase mobile data services adoption, improve margins and average revenue per user (ARPU) and many more.

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Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Simplify the Migration to 4G Networks


     


       The article is very useful where it talks about how mobile operators can prepare their networks to support fourth-generation (4G) broadband services that will improve the user experience and yield new revenue opportunities. LTE is a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard that provides much greater spectral efficiency than the most advanced 3G networks. It also a mention about .It explains how multimedia core solutions can deliver optimum user experience and build efficient networks.

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Article taken from Vinod's blog.

Africa: 3G, 4G and the speed of evolution


     The article is about African operators to be the continent's first commercial 4G network using Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology.it tells that it is getting longer than it should to approve licences for spectrums.  It also mentions interesting measures taken by companies to cut roll-out costs by using existing 2G and 3G base stations to accommodate 4G capabilities. Not much on the evolution of communication in this article, just pointing the lack of pace in implementing 4G technology by regulators.

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Article taken from Price's Blog.

LTE Network Topology





     Very exciting video where it explains the LTE network topology in an useful mode of presentation where it have visual and audio presentation. The video is very easy to understand for beginner that it will shed some light on the content and the user will grasp the theories easily for better understanding.

Video taken from Price's blog.

4th generation mobile technology, Long Term Evolution





     The video is related to LTE in the oil and gas industry where they operate in the remote area far from nearest communication tower. It showed how the LTE technology overcomes fading where experts show the uplink and downlink from mobile car where they get uninterrupted data link. Overall showed how LTE is helping diverse field of expertise.

Video taken from Price's blog.

Malaysia set to go 4G in broadband and mobile tech

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      The article is rather boring and dull in nature where it is just explaining that Malaysia is just about to adapt the LTE concept and deploy it in Malaysia.  It lets the reader know that they will be changing mobile phone once the technology is fully deployed where the current phones does not support the LTE or 4G technology.


Article taken from Vinod's blog