Since everybody likes lists, here are the 10 things you need to know about the 4G technology known as Long-Term Evolution, or LTE, standard.
- It began in 2004 as the next-generation networking technology pushed by the 3GPP
- It’s fast — with peak data rates of 1o0 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up
- It makes CDMA and GSM debates moot
- It offers both FDD and TDD duplexing, which means the upload and download speeds don’t have to be synchronous, so operators can better optimize their networks to use more upload channels
- It won’t be deployed until 2010 or so
- Verizon is testing it with Motorola equipment, and AT&T has backed it too
- LTE will have lower latency, which makes real-time interaction on high band-width applications using mobiles possible
- It competes against WiMax, and some want to subsume WiMax into it
- China Mobile is testing it, which means China may skip 3G networks altogether
- While it will make mobile data faster, it may not bolster sales of networking gear
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