Telco team achieves 2 Gbps for 4G

A consortium comprising Telstra, Ericsson, NETGEAR and Qualcomm has announced that it has achieved 4G speeds of up to 2 Gbps in lab testing using a new commercially announced chipset.

The extreme speeds were enabled by aggregating five 20 MHz LTE carriers across three different frequency bands, with each carrier using 4x4 MIMO and 256 QAM technologies.

The 2 Gbps speeds were achieved by aggregating 100 MHz of spectrum across the bands 1, 3 and 7.

Equipment used comprised a NETGEAR Nighthawk mobile router equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem, and Ericsson’s Baseband 6630, Radio 4415 and latest Gigabit LTE network software.

“Following Telstra’s world-first Gigabit-enabled network launch in January 2017, we are delighted to again be partnering with Ericsson and Qualcomm to double these speeds,” said Telstra Group Managing Director of Networks Mike Wright.

“This achievement demonstrates our continued LTE innovation, providing our customers with an unrivalled network experience and preparing our networks for future growth.”

“By setting this major industry milestone, we’re helping mobile operators fully mobilise their spectrum assets and maximise the capacity of their Gigabit LTE networks and allowing mobile device makers to offer consumers a preview of new services soon expected to be enabled with 5G networks,” added Qualcomm Wireless GmbH Senior Vice President and General Manager, 4G/5G and Industrial IoT Serge Willenegger.

The companies will showcase the system in a live demonstration of 4x4 MIMO running on five 20 MHz carriers at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, later this month.

Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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