Telecom service provider Telstra and Ericsson demonstrated up to 300 Mbps speeds with LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation of 40 MHz over 1800 MHz band and 2600 MHz bands on Telstra’s live commercial network.
Ericsson uses LTE Advanced technology to enable operators to offer higher data speeds throughout the network, improving end users mobile broadband experience through better app, browsing and media performance.
Telstra plans to deploy the technology on 700 MHz spectrum once available.
The demonstration used Ericsson’s commercially released LTE Advanced software which aggregated 20 MHz bandwidth within the 1800 MHz band and 20 MHz bandwidth within the 2600 MHz band.
Ericsson on Friday said the live demonstration included downloading video content from while measuring download throughput.
Mike Wright, Telstra Executive Director Networks, said that the tests were an important foundational step towards being able to deploy Cat 6 LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation when Telstra receives access to the 700MHz spectrum freed up by the Digital Dividend.
The trials demonstrate the ability to aggregate two channels of 20 MHz spectrum on commercial network.
LTE Advanced enables operators to deliver even higher performance mobile data transfer when customers need it. Operators will be able to provide subscribers throughout the network with twice the data speeds that they are receiving today by joining 20 MHz in one band to 20 MHz in another.
Thomas Norén, head of Product Area Radio at Ericsson, said that with speeds of up to 300 Mbps, consumers will be able to download a large 800 MB file in approximately 21 seconds.
