Telecom equipment vendor Ericsson, Telstra and Qualcomm Technologies achieved 300Mbps speed with LTE Category 6 testing.
The completion of the world’s first inter-vendor interoperability testing of LTE Category 6, based on commercial LTE chipsets and infrastructure supporting Telstra’s carrier aggregation bands, is a major milestone for Ericsson and 4G industry stakeholders.
Telstra’s LTE Advanced network in Australia is getting ready for Category 6 commercial launch. LTE Category 6 offers much higher potential data speeds than Category 4, which peaks at 150Mbps. Ericsson statement does not share specific details about the launch plan.
Hakan Eriksson, CEO, Australia and New Zealand at Ericsson, said: “With the introduction of Category 6, adoption of LTE Advanced is expected to accelerate, with a key factor being the availability of commercial infrastructure and global chipsets for smartphones.”
The equipment used for the tests was based on ready-to-release versions of Ericsson’s L14A software release, which allows for unparalleled user experience on operator networks using multi-frequency deployments.
Ericsson, which is also working with China Mobile for its TD-LTE launch in China, claims that L14A embraces load balancing for better spectrum efficiency and improved user experience during high-load situations. It supports all bandwidth and frequency combinations for up to 40MHz Carrier Aggregation, providing users with speeds of up to 300Mbps.
The test used Qualcomm Technologies’ 3G/LTE multimode modem, the Qualcomm Gobi(TM) 9×35 chipset.
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