Huawei says that it has carried out the first successful execution of an LTE Category 4 field trial on a commercial LTE network in Europe. The field trial demonstrated excellent performance with download data rates of up to 150Mbps.
The trial was based on an LTE Category 4 device and an unnamed commercial LTE network deployed by Huawei in Europe. The LTE device made use of the industry's first Hisilicon LTE multi-mode chipset to support LTE R9.
At the 2012 Mobile World Congress, Huawei showcased a cutting-edge LTE-A inter-band carrier aggregation (CA) solution to improve the utilization of discontinued spectrum resources. Huawei also featured Beyond LTE technology, which significantly increases site peak rates of up to 30Gbps (20 times faster than existing commercial LTE networks).
"This commercial trial not only proves Huawei to be the world's first vendor to support end-to-end LTE Category 4 solutions, but also consolidates Huawei's leadership in LTE technology innovation," said Ying Weimin, Huawei president for GSM&UMTS<E wireless networks. "The top global mobile operators have chosen Huawei for commercial LTE deployment."
