Further progress on the road towards commercial LTE deployment
Nokia Siemens Networks is conducting end-to-end LTE interoperability testing with four leading device vendors across several frequency bands required in different regions, including AWS, 700 MHz and 2100 MHz. The tests cover several steps in end-to-end network configuration based on commercial LTE hardware, including the Flexi Multiradio [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks drives LTE towards commercialization with successful test of key feature to enable continuous connectivity
Nokia Siemens Networks recently conducted the world’s first LTE handover test using a commercially available base station and fully standards compliant software. The test verifies that the LTE handover procedure is handled correctly by both Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi [...]

Dresden, Germany
Signalion announces its Sorbas Test-UE products being compliant with the March’09 Release of the 3GPP LTE standard. The Sorbas Test-UE now simultaneously supports TD-LTE as well as the FDD mode. Matthias Stege, Head of Marketing, emphasizes “This flexibility enables our customers to use our Sorbas system for both kinds of LTE developments worldwide. That [...]

Growth despite recession proves people need the benefits of broadband
Broadband has become a necessity for people around the planet –despite the economic downturn. That’s the message delivered in Singapore today by Broadband Forum Chief Operating Officer Robin Mersh.
Mr Mersh was giving a keynote address at the giant CommunicAsia conference and exhibition in Singapore, where more [...]

Actix, the leader in Network Status performance engineering and optimization solutions, is announcing new support capabilities for HSPA+/Evolved within the Actix Analyzer and Actix Spotlight solutions.
Actix is now able to deliver HSPA+/Evolved troubleshooting and optimization capabilities within all elements of its Analyzer, Spotlight, Radioplan and Actix One solutions.
Already established as the industry standard for both [...]

Dresden, Germany
Signalion GmbH today announced the official release of a Layer 3 protocol option for the Sorbas LTE Test-UE at the LTE World Summit in Berlin. With this additional functionality Signalion now offers test solutions for all eNB protocol layers. Customers may choose from a large collection of protocol test cases and benefit from the [...]

SISVEL Announces Development of a Joint Patent Licensing Program
and Issues a Call for Patents Essential for LTE
Following talks with the stakeholders in the LTE field worldwide that began last year and culminated in April 2009 in a presentation on the benefits of an LTE patent pool delivered to the IPR Plenary Assembly of [...]

Oyster 3G™ solution incorporates network integration and management standards
Cambridge, 7 April 2009 – ip.access (www.ipaccess.com), the multi-award winning developer of femtocell and picocell solutions, has today announced new capabilities in its Oyster 3G femtocell product in support of the just-published femtocell standards from 3GPP and the Broadband Forum. With these developments, ip.access has made significant [...]

Three-way cooperation between 3GPP, Femto Forum and Broadband Forum creates new standard in record time enabling operators to deploy standards-based femtocells
London, UK –7th April 2009 – The Femto Forum, 3GPP and the Broadband Forum today announced that the world’s first femtocell standard has been officially published by 3GPP, paving the way for standardised femtocells to [...]

SAN DIEGO — April 07, 2009 — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today offered its endorsement for the Third Generation Partnership Project’s (3GPP’s) recent approval of the eCall in-band modem specification, which supports the EU’s eCall road safety initiative.
The 3GPP standardization group, well [...]