BERLIN -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it is conducting field tests in Dresden and Berlin, Germany, on a variety of innovative technologies to support next-generation mobile broadband services. The testing, part of an initiative by the Enablers for Ambient Services and Systems Consortium (EASY-C), involves wireless communications technologies expected to play key roles in future mobile networking standards including “4G” systems. Alcatel-Lucent’s Research and Innovation team in Stuttgart, which is leading participation in this effort on the company’s behalf, is a driving force behind research in the EASY-C initiative.
The EASY-C, which is sponsored by the German Ministry for Education and Research, is working to foster mobile Internet access and applications such as video streaming, online multimedia games and local information services. Alcatel-Lucent’s participation in the testing effort is focused on the introduction of multi-antenna transmission technology -- known as MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) -- that promises significant enhancements in data rates and network capacity, as well as inventive interference management techniques.
For the project, Alcatel-Lucent is using a wireless communication infrastructure based on the new Long Term Evolution*1 (LTE) standard – an evolutionary enhancement to UMTS/HSPA technology -- to demonstrate the performance of innovative multi-antenna methods and new control algorithms. The goal of the effort is to enhance bandwidth and reduce latency for key services – beyond the levels envisioned in the LTE standard -- and maximize spectral efficiency.
"The goal of virtually every improvement in wireless communication technology is to provide greater transmission capacity within a given frequency spectrum in order to deliver services to as many users as possible," said Erich Zielinski, head of Alcatel-Lucent’s Research and Innovation in Germany. "To this end, developers are working to increase the spectral efficiency of mobile technologies, and multi-antenna systems are one very compelling way of transmitting data at faster rates and enhancing the range of wireless systems."
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