TELSTRA, ERICSSON, NETGEAR and Qualcomm Technologies have achieved 4G speeds of up to 2 Gbps in lab testing using a new commercially announced chipset.
The companies said Wednesday that the top speeds were made possible using Ericsson’s Baseband 6630, Radio 4415, and latest Gigabit LTE network software. The extreme speeds are enabled by aggregating five 20 MHz LTE carriers across three different frequency bands with each carrier using 4×4 MIMO and 256 QAM technologies.
The demonstration saw 2 Gbps speeds achieved by aggregating 100MHz of spectrum across the bands 1, 3 and 7, using a Netgear Nighthawk mobile router equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem, the world's first-announced Category 20 LTE modem.
This latest technology breakthrough accelerates the companies’ joint efforts to deliver the world’s leading Gigabit LTE network, paving the way for increased capability and performance on the journey towards 5G, adds the news release.
Ericsson, Telstra, Qualcomm Technologies and Netgear will be showcasing the 2 Gbps speeds in a live demonstration at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month.
