Telekom Austria Testing Huawei Supplied LTE Network

Published on: 1st Jan 1970: 1:33am

Telekom Austria says that it has successfully run a LTE trial, performing a live LTE video call between technical engineers driving in a bus in Vienna´s 21st District, one of the company's LTE test areas, and their counterparts in the provincial capitals of Graz, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck. The LTE live test-call was performed with Telekom Austria Group's telepresence videoconfering system.

The LTE transmitters currently cover a few test areas in Vienna´s 2nd and 21st districts and in St. Pölten in Lower Austria. The LTE transmitters as well as nearly 1,000 further base stations are connected via high-performance glass fiber.

Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO Telekom Austria Group, said: "We expect data volumes to continue to surge going forward. Such sharp rises in data traffic will only be able to be managed by combining the latest mobile and fixed net technologies based on so-called air-to-fiber solutions. LTE will meet the significant future capacity requirements of mobile usage. "AirToFiber" enables the transfer of large data volumes most efficiently."

The radio technology for the LTE pilot project has been provided by Telekom Austria Group's cooperation partner Huawei. Other pilot project partners include Starent/Cisco (which supplied the evolved packet core), Blueslice (which supplied the home subscriber server) as well as Kapsch CarrierCom (which supplied the integration of the back-end components).

 

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