Telecom network vendor Nokia Networks has demonstrated small cell LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation of over 200 Mbps data rate to double hot spot capacity.
The company achieved the new world record by a software upgrade of small cell to LTE-Advanced, said Marc Rouanne, executive vice president, mobile broadband, Nokia Networks.
The demo shows that bringing LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) to small cells and achieving peak data rate of more than 200 Mbps – doubling of throughput — using a single micro or pico base station will assist telecom operators to handle mobile data traffic growth.
The Nokia Networks innovation has result into several client wins including the recently signed contracts with Zain KSA and Vodafone Group. Nokia Networks, which competes with Ericsson, ZTE, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, etc. says it has bagged ten new deals in the last 45 days.
Nokia Networks said its Flexi Zone small cells support up to 600 active users or devices. Commercial Flexi Zone small cell deployments are already supporting heavy traffic loads of more than 150 active users per cell. The installations have achieved 100 percent availability, even under high traffic load, while offloading 80 percent of traffic from the operator’s macro network.
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