LTE networks of the future could peak at 30Gbps

2. eaxvac posted on 27 Mar 2012, 04:47 1 2

huh? hua-what??!

3. troutsy posted on 27 Mar 2012, 04:50 1 0

You couldn't blink fast enough to see your phone reach its data limit... if the battery was big enough to last that long. And then you'd have to wait an hour for it to cool down enough to put back in your pocket.

The future is going to be so sweet.

4. oddmanout posted on 27 Mar 2012, 04:54 3 0

This is really good news but I just don't see how speeds that high are going to be necessary. Page loads for even the heaviest data consuming sites can be achieved instantaneously with speeds much slower than a Gigabit down/up. No multiplayer game, no VoIP app, no video call or HD video stream will ever need that much speed in transfers for it to be able to run flawlessly. I look forward to faster speeds but should this someday come to US networks, I could only imagine the price to pay for such a premium service. I just hope its reasonable. I'll take 100 mb down and be happy forever. That is unless some breakthrough product comes out that needs such a high demand for data transfers (which I still don't see happening).

5. FAUguy posted on 27 Mar 2012, 05:11 1 0

Just for reference, 30 Gigabits per second = 3.7 Gigabytes per second. This is also equal to 30,000 Mbps.

But this has nothing to do with a data limit (such as 2GB or 4GB per month), but is purely the speed of a download. The faster the download speed, the less time it takes.

9. drazyw posted on 27 Mar 2012, 09:00 2 0

How about we work on rolling out the current 4g technology to more places, a little faster. Worry about 30Gb/s when we no longer drop to 1x or edge when you drive a mile out from a major city.

11. jaytai0106 posted on 27 Mar 2012, 11:39 0 0

I really can live with 10Mbps download speed. Where I live, my Atrix hits about 1.5Mbps and I am fine with this. Around 5 at all time would be ideal for me, but I will take what I can get :P

12. cncrim posted on 27 Mar 2012, 12:03 1 1

The only problem with these technology is it is not pratical to use, because the faster the speed the more energy is need. So I dont see the good use at this speed, with that speed our phone might catch fire or drain out battery in an hour unless we need comeup with battery break throug like increase the battery 20 fold then .........

14. jwbam posted on 28 Mar 2012, 22:08 0 1

Maybe this is what they’re referring to. NOTE they refer to SITE PEAK SPEEDS, NOT USER SPEEDS. It’s more like a backhaul solution for LTE and LTE-A towers. By 30 Gbits/sec, they might simply mean the tower can support 100 LTE users at 300 Mbits each or 10 LTE-A users at 3 Gbits each.

http://www.huawei.com/ilink/en/about-huawei/rss-feeds/huawei-updates/index.htm

” Huawei announced the demonstration of Beyond LTE technology at the 2012 Mobile World Congress. This new technology will significantly increase site peak rate to 30Gbps, over 20 times faster than existing commercial LTE network.”

Also this is the actual announcement they made at the 2012 MWC, a new 10 Gbit/sec ETHERNET router for Cell Sites. It’s ETHERNET, not wireless – that’s why there are no references to spectrum requirements

http://www.huawei.com/en/about-huawei/newsroom/press-release/hw-124155-world-sfirst10geatn950bltebackhualmobileworldcongr.htm

As the world’s first 10GE CSR, ATN 950B covers bandwidth increase from 1GE to 10GE during LTE phases, even beyond LTE