LTE Advanced with higher speeds becomes ready to take the flight

TECHNOLOGY

4G networks for phones are becoming popular day by day and almost every developed cell phone market is upgrading to this fast internet for mobile devices as it provides more bandwidth and widens the possibilities of doing stuff online for the users. Now work is being done to build on the current LTE technology to make it even better.

As the user base of the high speed LTE is increasing, Chinese handset maker ZTE and country’s largest carrier China Mobile are working on creating what they are calling LTE Advanced. This new advanced version of LTE as its name suggests has provided 223MB per second download speeds in experiments, which is pretty spectacular.

The LTE usage is expected to see a massive boom in next few years as an estimate by Cisco Systems. which says that the mobile data traffic will grow by a factor of 18 by the year of 2016. This boom has been made possible thanks to the ever growing popular of smartphones.

LTE Advanced provides more speeds than the traditional LTE by stitching together streams of data coming from five different frequencies. This trick is commonly known as carrier aggregation. Also it will be able to send and receive data from eight different antennas. So your current location and number of devices connecting to the network will have a real time affect on your bandwidth.

Although LTE Advanced is quite good it does have a few strings attached to it. Perhaps the biggest drawback of this tech is that current 4G devices won’t work on it and LTE Advanced ready devices will have to be released. Considering how fast the smartphone market scenario changes that isn’t going to be a big problem however the LTE Advanced devices also need to have faster processors and more antennas inside than the smartphones of today (which only have one). The battery life will also be a concern if this tech is applied on smartphones as unlike the smartphones of today manufacturers will have to add more than one antennas into the devices.

The new and more speedy LTE Advanced will make it more convenient for users to stream games, videos  and do video calling among other internet related things by proving faster download as well as upload speeds.
The testing of LTE Advanced will begin in North America later this year and if everything went according to the plan then the wide scale propagation of this new tech will be  initiated by carriers.
While there are certainly some issues that need to be addressed before LTE Advanced could become available to public the new network technology is considered to be more spectrum flexible and is certainly capable of providing high data rate to the users.