Nokia Siemens Networks to participate in large scale China TD-LTE trial
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Press Release Beijing, China – March 25, 2011 Nokia Siemens Networks to participate in large scale China TD-LTE trial Provides TD-LTE network, OSS, services for large-scale field trial in Hangzhou With the approval of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MIIT), Nokia Siemens Networks has become one of the first telecommunications equipment vendors to participate in the large-scale TD-LTE trial with China Mobile. Nokia Siemens Networks will offer its commercial 2.3GHz/2.6GHz TD-LTE equipment, professional services and management software to conduct the major field trial in Hangzhou. |
Nokia Siemens Networks has already completed both 2.3 and 2.6GHz outdoor, and 2.3GHz indoor, single-system testing with TD-LTE. The company is one of the first global vendors to be selected for the large-scale TD-LTE field trials with China Mobile. In addition, Nokia Siemens Networks has conducted interoperability tests of its TD-LTE equipment with a number of TD-LTE devices of major suppliers. As stated by MIIT, Nokia Siemens Networks will cooperate with China Mobile to accelerate network construction, equipment installation, and network optimization according to the overall requirements and plan of the large-scale TD-LTE trial in Hangzou.
“Nokia Siemens Networks has built a complete TD-LTE business in China, integrating procurement, production, testing and maintenance with its Hangzhou R&D Center at the center of this value chain,” said Markus Borchert, head of Greater China customer operations at Nokia Siemens Networks. “The approval by MIIT confirms our long-term support for TD-LTE and our leadership driving the global ecosystem for unpaired frequency bands.”
In addition to its market-leading Single RAN Advanced radio equipment, Nokia Siemens Networks will provide network planning and network optimization services to ensure sustained network quality and performance. Configuration, monitoring and optimization for this project will be based on the company’s Network Management System, NetAct.
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*Nokia Siemens Networks has been committed towards promoting healthy development of the TD-LTE industry chain as well as the internationalization of TD-LTE for long. It has also displayed remarkable performance in several 2.3GHz/2.6GHz lab and field trials organized by MIIT:
· Early 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks supported the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan to build the region’s first TD-LTE trial network.
· In April 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks inaugurated a TD-LTE Open Lab at its Hangzhou R&D facility,providing smart phone and terminal testing facility to accelerate TD-LTE ecosystem.
· In May 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks successfully completed the TD-LTE field trial using the award-winning commercial Flexi Multiradio Base Station that has been shipped to more than 200 operators till date.
· During Shanghai Expo, Nokia Siemens Networks facilitated a high resolution live video call between China Mobile’s pre-commercial TD-LTE network in Shanghai and National Chiao Tung University’s (NCTU) TD-LTE trial network in Taipei, set up by Nokia Siemens Networks.
· In June 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks paved the way for a seamless evolution to TD-LTE by demonstrating the world’s first concurrent TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE demo.
· During July 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks became the first vendor to pass TD-LTE X2/ S1 interface conformity test and successfully complete all testing tasks.
· In August 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks met full TD-LTE test specifications defined by MIIT and conducted the world’s first high-definition TD-LTE video call including handover with a Samsung TD-LTE device.
· In October 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks became the first company to successfully demonstrate TD-LTE using broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum in India.
· By the end of 2010, Nokia Siemens Networks had set up comprehensive operations in China with the entire industry chain including R&D, production, trial, etc. Hangzhou R&D Center was upgraded to become the global R&D base for TD-LTE with world-class researcher groups dedicated to this future telecom technology.
· During Mobile World Congress 2011, Nokia Siemens Networks partnered China Mobile to showcase LTE FDD/TDD Forum and successfully demonstrate beamforming TD-LTE on commercial devices. Meanwhile, Nokia Siemens Networks has also become the main equipment provider supporting the first LTE FDD/TD LTE concurrent network.
** Nokia Siemens Networks was also at the forefront of LTE commercialization right from the start. In 2009, the company conducted the world’s first LTE call with commercial hardware and standard software. At present, Nokia Siemens Networks is working with more than 25 service providers in LTE trial and has won 31 commercial contracts in LTE. TeliaSonera and Deutsche Telecom are the customers, who chose Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy the world’s first commercial LTE networks.
Nokia Siemens Networks also enables rapid time-to-market of new services for operators through professional services capabilities developed around LTE. With experience in deploying, planning and optimizing LTE networks, Nokia Siemens Networks is strongly positioned to support operators in rolling out their LTE networks while they focus on launching superior mobile voice and date services to their customers.
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