CCID Consulting: LTE Is Not Only Evolution

BEIJING, May 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: HK08235), recently released its article on LTE.
In Feb. 2008, Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology once again became the focus of the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. International carriers, equipment manufacturers, communications test manufacturers declared to support LTE, and provide relevant LTE test service solutions. LTE is the evolution of 3G, and it improves and strengthens 3G air access technology, which adopts OFDM and MIMO as its unique standard of wireless network evolution. It could provide 100 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s peak rates under 20MHz spectral bandwidth, which improves district edge users' performances, improves district capacity and reduces system delay.
However, as a new mobile communications technical standard, LTE is not only a technical evolution, but also a standard with a great market. LTE's development is many manufacturers' game; meanwhile, it is also the progress of technical convergence.

LTE vs. WiMAX

Mobile wireless technology has three approaches to development. First of all, it evolves from HSPA into HSPA+, and finally into LTE. The advanced edition of TD-SCDMA, which is based on TDD, is called TD-LTE. The second approach is that CDMA2000 develops along EV-DO Rev.0/Rev.A/Rev.B, changes into UMB in the end. The third approach is WiMAX with a length of 802.16m. Among the above approaches, LTE has won the most upholders with WiMAX following.
Ericsson is one of the main supporters of WCDMA. Qualcomm has an overwhelming majority of knowledge property rights and it has become the biggest promoter of CDMA2000. The main adherents of TD-SCDMA include Datang and ZTE. While Intel, Samsung as well as Nortel support WiMAX.
In the International Communications Exhibition, China, 2007, Rohde-Schwarz released the first LTE RF testing solution. TI planed to push out IP network based LTE equipments to enhance the process of bringing 3G equipment to market. Agilent released its leading 3GPP LTE testing solutions in the Global Mobile Communication Conference, and announced plans to join the LTE/SAE experiment alliance in March 2008. Agilent was the only company to provide LTE interoperation testing and field testing, including testing from radio interfaces in physical layers to protocol layers and networks. Agilent testing solution pushed further forward the commercialization process of LTE technology. Yokogawa also traced the development of LTE technology and actively focused on instrument developing. Anritsu released LTE based testing solutions recently.
Domestic testing and measuring manufactures paid more attention on LTE as well, having an optimistic attitude to the LTE testing market. Domestic carriers and equipment manufactures such as China Mobile, Huawei and ZTE have planed LTE R&D programs. National correlation departments were thinking and planning the merging of TD-SCDMA and LTE technology. Domestic testing instrument manufactures should seize the chance of LTE and increase the investment on LTE testing solutions. The technology gap could be made up through cooperation, while delays in strategies and planning would bring irrecoverable losses to domestic testing instrument manufactures.
CCID Consulting believes that LTE will develop quickly in the future five years, benefiting from the support of carriers, equipment manufactures and testing instrument manufactures, although WiMAX owns first-mover advantage. The development of LTE is not only a technology evolution, but also a game among manufactures and related standards during the competition in global mobile communication market.

About CCID Consulting

CCID Consulting Co., Ltd (hereinafter known as CCID Consulting), the first Chinese consulting firm listed in the Growth Enterprise Market of the Stock Exchange (GEM) of Hong Kong (stock code: HK08235), is directly affiliate to China Center for Information Industry Development (hereinafter known as CCID Group). Headquartered in Beijing, CCID Consulting has so far set up branch offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Chengdu, with over 300 professional consultants after many years of development. The company's business scope has covered over 200 large and medium-sized cities in China.
Based on the major competitiveness of the powerful the industrial resources, information technology and data channels, CCID Consulting provides customers with public policy establishment, industry competitiveness upgrade, development strategy and planning, marketing strategy and research, HR management, IT programming and management. Her customers range from industrial users in electronics, telecommunications, energy, finance, automobile, to government departments at all levels and diversified industrial parks. CCID Consulting commits herself to become the No.1 advisor for enterprise management, the No.1 consultancy for government decision and the No.1 brand for informatization consulting.

source: CCID Consulting Co., Ltd.