Passing the LTE Test

Testing equipment vendors are plenty busy with attempting to keep up with the demands of network equipment manufacturers and service providers that are looking to Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the next link in the evolution of 4G buildout. After all, LTE promises a great deal, including the ability to incrementally increase speed and capacity, while harvesting investments in existing technologies, including wireless and wireline. Despite the fact that most early estimates put LTE rollouts in early 2010 – a date that is still largely considered to be realistic – Verizon Wireless announced acceleration of its LTE deployment timetable to December 2009. It is also believed that NTT DoCoMo Inc. (NYSE: DCM) will deploy LTE in Japan in 2009.

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