Hitachi Opens USA Based LTE Research Facility

­Hitachi says that it has opened a LTE research facility in Dallas, USA though a local subsidiary company, Hitachi Communication Technologies America. The facility is located in the "telecom corridor" area of Richardson, Texas. The Dallas R&D Center will focus on the Mobility Management Entity (MME) and other components of the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) for LTE.

"I am very pleased to announce the opening of the new Dallas R&D Center in support of Hitachi's mobile communications business," said Yoshihiro Kondo, General Manager, Dallas R&D Center, Hitachi-CTA. "This location in Richardson is at the heart of this activity in the United States, and I believe that we can expand our business in the near future."

Last year, KDDI Corporation, a leading Japanese wireless operator, selected Hitachi as the EPC supplier for KDDI's LTE network. Hitachi partnered with Nortel Networks to provide the MME component of EPC to KDDI.

Hitachi has hired a staff of key MME/SGSN/mobility architects, R&D and business personnel for the Dallas R&D Center to work on the development and delivery of MME and other EPC components for KDDI. The work on MME is based on a license under which Nortel has granted to Hitachi the rights to develop and deliver the MME to KDDI.

Posted to the site on 30th August 2009