An introduction to LTE Technology

Long Term Evolution, abbreviated as LTE, marketed as 4G LTE, is currently the fastest, most advanced network service. It belongs to 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) work item, which is an international collaboration of a number of telecommunications standard who standard produce standards for UMTS (3rd Generation Mobile System, 3G GSM).

LTE is part of the GSM evolutionary path for mobile broadband, following EDGE, UMTS, HSPA and HSPA+ (HSPA Evolution). It is a promising technology offer users a significantly higer data rates, higher system throughput, and lower latency delay critical services compared to 3GPP ancestor UMTS.

LTE is design to has architecture centered on Internet Protocol (IP), an excellent support for browsing Websites, VoIP and other IP-based services are provided. LTE can theoretically support downlink peak rates at 300Mbps and uplink peak rates of 75Mbps (based on experiment trials). In practice the actual bandwidth available to an individual LTE subscriber will likely to be significantly less.

LTE is not just the next generation of wireless technology, LTE is an ongoing living standards. LTE is a standard that will continuously improve over time. Most leading operators, device and infrastructure manufacturers, as well as content providers expect LTE to be the standard of cellular networks for at least the next decade, possibly even beyond!