Motorola demonstrated the world’s first TD-LTE USB dongle at the “TD-LTE Showcase Network Opening Ceremony,” which was held the Shanghai Expo site last week.
Delegates at the ceremony experienced applications that run over a TD-LTE network via USB dongles, including high-definition video wall (simultaneous 24 video streams), remote monitoring and high-speed Internet browsing applications.
“We are very excited to support China Mobile in bringing the world’s first TD-LTE USB dongle demonstration enabled by our TD-LTE system,” said Dr. Mohammad Akhtar, corporate vice president and general manager, Motorola Networks business in Asia Pacific. “A healthy devices ecosystem has always been critical to the development, commercialization and success of wireless network technologies. We are working closely with partners to drive this ecosystem as demonstrated by the advancement announced today. TD-LTE is now a commercial reality and we are very pleased to see that industry players are joining forces to accelerate TD-LTE globalization.”
Motorola said it expects interest in TD-LTE will continue to grow because of the low cost of TDD spectrum that is particularly attractive to emerging and developing markets; operators’ continuing need for more capacity and spectrum; and the ability to hand-off between TD-LTE and LTE FDD networks.
In effect, this ability to roam between LTE FDD and TD-LTE means operators can use TD-LTE networks to augment their FDD LTE network for more capacity or other applications such as video broadcasting, while operators choosing to use TD-LTE as their “main” network can still offer their subscribers the ability to roam to other operators’ FDD LTE networks in different countries.
Motorola is committed to both FDD-LTE and TD-LTE, as well as WiMAX.
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