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Alcatel-Lucent has completed a series of data calls involving terminals from third-party suppliers using Long Term Evolution (LTE (News - Alert)) technology for Time Division Duplex (TDD) spectrum (TD-LTE), a mobile broadband standard that will be used by operators in China and across the globe, according to the company.

 

Alcatel-Lucent can provide mobile operators with an evolution path to 4G. The test calls were completed by Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (ASB (News - Alert)), Alcatel-Lucent's flagship company in China.

 

Alcatel-Lucent’s end-to-end LTE network solution provides scalability, cost efficiency, QoE and agility to enable next-gen quality of experience and support the next-gen wireless business model.

 

The company’s end-to-end LTE network pre-integrates IP service delivery architecture based on an open and powerful Service Delivery Environment, an Evolved Packet Core (EPC), and an all-IP mobile transport solution (META), together with LTE radio access powered by our expertise in Software Defined Radio (SDR) and OFDM/MIMO. CDMA and WiMAX (News - Alert) provides expertise in seamless handover, VoIP service continuity and QoS for LTE.

 

"TD-LTE, which was strongly driven by operators in China, is expected to play an important role in the development of 4G networks globally," stated Olivia Qiu, President of Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) Shanghai Bell. "We are committed to ensuring that all of our mobile customers have a smooth evolution to 4G, no matter what kind of network they have in place today."

 

Alcatel-Lucent is a pioneer in the LTE market, and is doing LTE deployments with some of the mobile operators, like trials of LTE for both FDD and TDD spectrum. This end-to-end LTE network solution is fully integrated and interworking with any wireless infrastructure across the globe.

 

LTE is the next evolution in mobile network standards defined by 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) and supports operations in both paired spectrum and unpaired spectrum. It enables efficient spectrum utilization for both legacy and future wireless frequency bands. LTE technology provides a 4G evolution path for CDMA/EV-DO, GSM/EDGE, W-CDMA, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX technologies.