Motorola announced that its first commercial
release of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) solutions next year will include
products for the 700MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum bands to help operators
increase coverage and capacity of their networks as they strive to meet
the growing demand for mobile broadband services.
Both the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and government
regulatory bodies around the world are recognizing the need for more
spectrum to support the arrival of wireless broadband technologies.
Motorola intends to meet the needs of its network operator customers by
incorporating both current and new frequency bands being considered for
LTE into its product roadmap. The timing for commercialization of
products in specific frequency demands will be based upon a combination
of general 4G spectrum licensing trends globally as well as individual
customer demands.
Motorola is engaged in LTE trials with operators in North America,
Europe and the Asia Pacific region. The knowledge gained from these LTE
trials, coupled with Motorola's expertise in OFDM and experience as a
leading vendor in deploying and managing WiMAX networks, will
contribute greatly to the development and maturity of Motorola's LTE
solutions portfolio.
"We believe deploying LTE in the 700 MHz band is mandatory to meet
the needs of wireless carriers in the U.S. market as well as a number
of other countries globally," said Darren McQueen, Motorola vice
president, Wireless Broadband Access Technologies. "In addition, there
is a clear demand for LTE in 2.6GHz spectrum band to meet the needs of
GSM carriers that have already secured the spectrum in the global
market."
Motorola also announced that its LTE solution will support the
future LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD) variant to meet the need of
operators with a TDD spectrum holding. "Leveraging our WiMAX TDD
infrastructure, we have designed a common LTE platform that is capable
of both LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and TDD, offering global
operators the simplicity and economies of scale across markets,"
McQueen said.
Motorola's LTE base station solution is comprised of its common platform
site controller unit that will be shared between WiMAX 802.16e and LTE
plus a variety of radio head solutions to meet specific customer
requirements. The portfolio includes frame based-mounted radios, remote
radio heads and tower top radios to support a wide variety of LTE
deployment scenarios across newly available spectrum as well as
existing GSM, UMTS and CDMA spectrum. Motorola's flexible eNode B
architecture allows many spectrum bands to be supported with limited
development investment.
For more details about Motorola's LTE solutions please visit: www.motorola.com/lte and www.motorola.com/experiencelte