Alcatel-Lucent Starts Shipping 700Mhz Based LTE Base Staions

Alcatel-Lucent says that following certification from the U.S. telecoms regulator, the FCC, it is now shipping its 700 MHz LTE base stations to service providers in the United States. With this, Alcatel-Lucent has become the first vendor to have FCC-certified LTE base stations available, a key requirement for sales in the U.S. market.

"The fact that we're already shipping 700 MHz gear is a strong indicator of the maturity of Alcatel-Lucent's LTE offerings and highlights the rapid progress we are making in bringing LTE solutions to market," said Mike Iandolo, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Wireless Networks Product Division.

These new compact LTE radios are a key component of Alcatel-Lucent's Converged Radio Access Network (RAN) offerings and further expand Alcatel-Lucent's end-to-end LTE solution. Alcatel-Lucent's LTE solution complies with the latest 3GPP standards and incorporates innovations from Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs such as Self-Organizing and Self-Optimizing (SON) capabilities that facilitate the rapid introduction of services and ensure that the network is dynamically optimized.

Alcatel-Lucent's LTE base stations offer integration with MIMO- optimised all-in-one RF modules, thus avoiding traditional losses in feeders and cables and createing a lower power consumption profile.

Posted to the site on 24th August 2009