Nokia Siemens Doubles EDGE Data Speeds

Nokia Siemens Networks says that it has made the world's first Downlink Dual Carrier EDGE end-to-end call with mobile devices, bringing the promise of doubling todayÃ's EDGE network data speeds. Downlink Dual Carrier is a software-based solution, that can double data speeds to 592 kbps on existing EDGE-capable GSM networks.

Nokia Siemens NetworksÃ' Dual Carrier EDGE solution, which will be available as a software upgrade is the first step in evolving EDGE. Dual Carrier is based on the 3GPP release 7 standard.

Nokia Siemens Networks already has additional plans to introduce in its networks the next substantial step, the so called EGPRS 2B, to further double the end user experience in up- and downlink performance. This will result in downlink speeds of up to 1.2 Mbps and will double uplink speed to up to 473 kbps, thus quadrupling of the capabilities of EDGE today.

Posted to the site on 4th December 2008