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Published: February 2008
30 Pages
Author: Robert Crago and PJ Louis
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Overview
The goals of the LTE project include improving efficiency, lowering costs, improving services, making use of new spectrum opportunities, and better integration with other open standards.
This publication provides the reader with a excellent understanding of LTE functionality and the rationale for deployment.
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Key Issues
There is a raging battle between WiMAX and LTE vendors over their future in the deploying of 4G technologies. Who will win this fight? How will vendors decide what to sell and to whom?
LTE (Long Term Evolutuon) appears to have taken the lead but can it deliver? No one knows right now but lab trials indicate its faster than WiMAX. What will happen to those vendors who have invested billions of dollars in WiMAX if LTE wins the 4G throne?
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Table of
Contents
- About the Authors.
- Wireless Broadband Services.
- 1. What is a Broadband Service?.
- 2. What Kinds of Networks Support Broadband Services?.
- 3. Why Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE, and 4G?.
- 4. Network Value Chain.
- 4a. Network Value Chain: The Wired Network.
- 4b. Network Value Chain: The Wireless Network.
- 4c. Network Value Chain: The Handset
- 5. Our Focus.
- Long Term Evolution (LTE)
- (Part Three of Four)
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. What is LTE?.
- 3. LTE Network Architecture - SAE..
- 3a. Service Architecture Evolution (SAE) - Node Definitions.
- i. GPRS Support Node (GSN):
- ii. Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN):
- iii. Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
- 3b. System Architecture Evolution (SAE) - Diagram..
- 3c. GPRS Core Network - The Foundation of SAE..
- 3d. GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP)
- 4. LTE Air Interface: E-UTRA..
- 5. What Carriers are Pursuing LTE..
- 6. Qualcomm and LTE..
- Summary and Conclusion.
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Robert D. Crago NCE – Mr. Crago has been in the communications industry
for over twenty years as a systems engineer, project manager and consultant
to enterprise groups, telecommunications companies and vendors providing
effective solutions. Mr. Crago’s consulting practice
provides clients with technology migration, consolidation and transformation
planning, implementation and integration processes having a direct effect to
the bottom-line. Mr. Crago’s success has
been in providing realistic ROIs to his clients. Mr. Crago is available for consultation and
custom research at Robert@MindCommerce.com
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P.J. Louis has over a quarter of a century's worth of experience in the telecom business. Mr. Louis is currently developing businesses in Asia and in the United States. Prior positions include Managing Director for Telecom Business Recovery in FTI Financial Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vice President of Carrier Marketing & Product Management at TruePosition, Inc., a leading provider of wireless location services. Mr. Louis had also served as chief of staff for engineering in NYNEX (today known as Verizon). He has held a number of leadership positions within Bell Communications Research and NextWave Wireless. Mr. Louis is a former officer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society - New York Section. Mr. Louis has been a senior member of IEEE for 26 years. Mr. Louis' experience includes leading sales and marketing organizations as well as technology organizations. Mr. Louis has been a featured speaker in telecommunications conferences and is the author of four (4) McGraw-Hill books; Telecom Management Crash Course, M-Commerce Crash Course, Broadband Crash Course, and Telecommunications Internetworking.
PJ is available to answer questions and offer related consulting and training as well as independent and customized research. PJ@MindCommerce.com |
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