Everything You Wanted to Know About LTE

By Mark Evans | Published: April 29, 2008

With Nortel in a quiet period before its first-quarter results are unveiled on Friday, there’s a dearth of news.

So for all you Nortel addicts looking for a fix, check out this podcast on “LTE (or Long Term Evolution), what it is, why it is needed, some typical uses for LTE and how it will benefit consumers and the general public”. It features Doug Wolf, Nortel’s general manager and vice-president for CDMA and LTE.

Just a note but Nortel is embracing the user-generated revolution what with a growing number of blogs, video and, now, podcasts. It looks like Nortel has a Twitter account but it hasn’t been updated yet. Nortel’s Facebook group can be found here.

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  • many

    “A strong portfolio of patents and capabilities” is not enough. You need a strong portfolio of products and proven experiance at technologies that preceed LTE, along with a way to get your salesman's foot in the door.

  • Tongue.In.Cheek

    On YouTube there is a 5 minute video on a Nortel Mobile WiMAX demonstration. Pretty interesting to see it in action. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pg09vl4xSaQ

    Those that were determined to state that Nortel killed WiMAX should pay attention to this.

  • many

    Interesting, yes but…….this is essentally “it works in the lab”. My sense is that the network was optimized for the purposes of the demo.

    The Carling campus is a nice demo, but hardly “real world”. Speeds of 60kph (37mph) are ok for the city, but not nearly enough to satisfy interstate let alone high speed rail lines.

    “Make before break” soft handover is what they were clearly using for real time streaming media is nice in a setting on campus, but in the real world often bandwidth availability is different and mobility management schemes are not designed for make before break.

    If as they claim they are not using buffering, they must be using a bi-casting scheme which carries double data transmission overhead from duplication
    of the packets and a potentially negative impact on application processor performance from the duplication and reordering of packets at mobile node. This reordering is caused by latency differences that change rapidly and I have seen cases where TCP even drops them because it mistakes them for duplicate packets.

  • http://www.nortel.com April Dunford

    There are lots of us at Nortel that Twitter. Some of us even follow you ;-)

  • http://www.allaboutnortel.com Mark Evans

    Good to know my “reach” into Nortel is multi-dimensional.

    :)

  • UnnervedNTholder

    who cares.

    quit paying yourselves millions of dollars. now thats a plan eh?

    Yeah if I was mike z making 10 million and with nortel paying my 11 million dollar legal bills (great thx cha ching) I would be buying MY OWN COMPANIES SHARES ASWELL!!! hey id be buying all kinds of stocks with that kind of money.

    you guys are a bunch of jokers

  • UnnervedNTholder

    ok Mike , maybe you are worth it.

    maybe.

  • UnnervedNTholder

    ok Mike , maybe you are worth it.

    maybe.

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