A New Revolution in Wireless Communications By Mike Yoho

 LTE is the project name for the newest generation of high speed cellular telephony  Marketed as 4G  Project of 3GPP (3 rd Generation Partnership Project )

 Flat IP architecture utilizing IPv6  High throughput (peak Mbps )  Low latency ( < 5ms)  Increased spectrum flexibility  Fluid mobility to legacy standards

 Tower transmissions of up to 100 km with reasonable performance by utilizing the 900 MHz frequency band for use by rural areas  Increased spectrum flexibility supporting slices as small as 1.4 MHz to as large as 20 MHz  Support for Multi Broadcast Single Frequency Network (service used for mobile TV)

 TeliaSonera opened first publicly available network in Scandinavia on December 14 th 2009  Verizon to have infrastructure to support 100 million users in 30 regions by November 2010  AT&T to have infrastructure to replace current GSM network by Summer 2011

 LTE is receiving almost unanimous support from the cellular industry  A new standard (LTE Advanced) is in the works which is fully 4G compliant  LTE advanced will support gigabit speeds