LTE: mobile technology for the next generation

[rpm]

LTE: mobile technology for the next generation

THERE is a lot of talk about LTE, the next generation mobile technology that will eventually provide users with peak speeds of 150 megabits per second (mbps) and an expected average download speeds of 70mbps.

 

[Roadrunner]

I bet I can find the same article substituted with the word "WiMax" posted here a few years ago.

 

[oober]

Will it provide latencies < 100ms?

 

[vodacom3g]

I bet I can find the same article substituted with the word "WiMax" posted here a few years ago.

Exactly, and thus the hype around WiMax developed. Especially when "industry commentators" got carried away without actually studying the subject properly. Remember how WiMax was going to give us "70Mb/s at 70Km's while doing 120Km/h" ?

But all the infighting in the WiMax community stalled standards, development, acceptance and thus deployment. But WiMax was going to be the answer as LTE was still so far off at that point.

That was ~5 years ago and while the WiMax situation has not much improved, LTE arrived on schedule and with every 3G network automatically adopting it, will be a huge problem for WiMax to justify its existance and will probably relegate it to a niche product.

If you're a new kid on the block, WiMax still makes sense (it is very good technology), but the mobile operators will look to LTE to deliver QoS-based, IP services.

How many times have we not seen great technology killed by politics....

 

[deonvr]

Who cares

Who cares about this, talk, talk, and more talk. Talk about cheap access when Seacom arrives, talk about 300mbps download speeds from this service, Telkom price improvements, etc. Blah blah blah

 

[tjunyat]

Imminent!

 

[LabAnimal]

... out comes the negative folk!

 

[Jagtiger]

Hmm.. Interesting... "sub-5ms latency for small packets" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution).
Will this replace wired connection? Not sure, because by time they will place this one, there will be huge packets for lag sensitive things, hence latency is bigger... (And wireless still have common disadvantages to wired one.)