ETELM will unveil e-LBS, a new eNodeB LTE base station with the longest reach ever developed for PMR 4G technology worldwide, at AfricaCom in Cape Town, South Africa.
The group is a mission critical service provider and will offer this as part of a 4G Linked portfolio.
The e-LBS features blue light services enabling operators to boost their coverage areas from existing locations.
ETELM has developed the e-LBS to interface with the existing LTE infrastructure and is also producing technologies to embrace TETRA and PMR over a single core network.
The e-LBS operating in the 700 MHz band, will soon be seen on other bands like 400 MHz and 2.6 GHz in the near future.
This will add to the broadband coverage, and will enhance the current capacity of trditional enodeB macro-cell sizes.
Operating in a channel bandwidth of 1.4 MHz to 10 MHz, the service will have full local or remote configuration and monitoring.
“The e-LBS base station is fully compliant with the LTE standard developed by 3GPP and so is compatible with any LTE Core network. We have already developed a range of PMR base station products that implement the LTE protocol stack, thereby allowing our radio sites to directly and seamlessly connect to any LTE backhaul,” added Pierre Minot, president, ETELM.
The technology will be showcased at the AfricaCom event, which is part of the French Pavilion, on stand E4 from 15-17 november, 2016.
Backed by large-scale roll-outs in the public safety, energy and other sectors, the critical service LTE market is further expected to go over $2 Billion by the end of 2020, suggest Market research reports.
Currently, it is led by early investments in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions and is worth $600 Million in annual infrastructure spending.
