Nortel and LG Electronics say they have taken the next-generation high speed wireless LTE technology from the labs to the streets to complete the world's first mobile LTE live air handover. Engineers at Nortel's Research and Development Centre of Excellence in Ottawa showed streaming HD video on an early LTE mobile device from LG Electronics while driving at speeds of 100 km per hour and moving between coverage sites. The companies said it shows that Nortel's LTE solution can provide reliable mobile coverage like today's 2G and 3G networks while offering greater bandwidth, higher capacity and lower latency. Commerical readiness is expected next year.
The LTE demonstration was conducted over a network consisting of multiple cell sites and sectors served by Nortel's eNodeB LTE base station and ATCA-based Access Gateway. The interoperability between Nortel's network and the device from LG Electronics is based on 3GPP Release 8 Standard.