In the PC World today, there are presented five things you need to know about LTE, but because before reading the article, I haven’t read about this, not knew the term, I thought to present you first what are the LTE networks and how can they improve their lives?
The first long term evolution service, which is also known as LTE was launched in Sweden, by TeliaSonera, a Swedish carrier, and this happened two years ago, in 2009. Since then, the system has evolved. For example, in the tests done last year, this system showed that it delivers downstream speeds, in average of 33 MB per second. Verizon Wireless, another carrier which provides a very good speed for downstream and upstream operations say that even with the fully loaded network or server, the users will still be able to use the downstream options at a speed of 12 MB per second and the upstream operations at a speed of 5 Mb per second.
The LTE systems, as you can see, represent the systems that allow Internet access and not only that. You can see a video on YouTube or even a movie, you can communicate with your friends because of this technology. This is possible only because the delay of these systems have been much improved since the first network was released on market, now these networks having a lower delay and latency. Verizon say that this technology which is not that new cuts the latency in half compared to the 3G networks, which work good, but not good enough when placed side by side with the LTE technology.
The LTE subscribers could see a latency of about 30 milliseconds, which is nothing compared to what they have seen before this technology to be used. Unfortunately, this is not worldwide yet and there are many carriers which still use the 3G technology. 173 more carriers are planning to use LTE in the next future, because today there are only 17 of them who use it. There are 592 networks in the world who use WiMax protocol, this including the fixed and mobile versions of the carriers. It is considered that LTE will dominate the mobile world soon, more than GSM did and than it would ever dreamed of.
The global system for mobile communication GSM swept the continents with the division of the code in multiple access networks. It is about the CDMA, as we know it. The LTE networks and the WiMax networks don’t qualify to be named as 4G versions. With their new improvements, they might become this way, but until then, until they will bring speed of 100 MB per second, the future is theirs. Almost all the carriers that offered 3G services, adopted this network, hoping that this will be the future and according to the analysts, this is indeed the future of the communications.
