Eyeing the future of broadband and wireless communications, a Fortune 100 company today announced that it plans to carry out so-called long term evolution, or “LTE ,” WiMax and fiber-to-the-home projects next year.

Officials at Motorola Inc. say that despite the weak economy, they’re seeing strong demand for media mobility points.
 
According to Dan Moloney, president of Motorola’s  home and networks mobility businesses, the company is committed to broadband and 4G development and made significant gains in 2008, particularly with LTE to address the mobility demands from consumers looking for personalized media experiences.
 
“Our testing of LTE networks has demonstrated great forward movement for the cellular community into networks that are fast, agile and able to deliver content on consumers’ terms,” Moloney said. “We’re looking forward to carrying this commitment into 2009 and leading the market in further development and deployment of LTE technologies.”
 
LTE itself has been making headlines. As TMCnet reported, a France-based telecommunications consortium recently announced that it’s solidified specifications for a project designed to improve the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System standard for mobile phone.
 
Officials represented by the Third Generation Partnership Project, or “3GPP,” say they’ve approved a functional freeze of LTE, as part of Release 8, marking a major step forward in bringing the next-generation wireless broadband technology to market.
 
“There is significant commitment from operators to deploy this technology, and this landmark achievement will allow them to realize their early deployment plans,” 3GPP officials say. “LTE is aimed at providing the true global mobile broadband experience for users but also places high priority on improving spectral efficiency and reducing cost.”
 
3GPP – a collaboration of European telecom groups – say there’s a “significant commitment” from operators to deploy the technology, and that “this landmark achievement will allow them to realize their early deployment plans.”
 
“LTE is aimed at providing the true global mobile broadband experience for users but also places high priority on improving spectral efficiency and reducing cost,” officials say.
 
Officials at Motorola say their confidence in LTE comes from being the first company to engineer a packet-switched network handoff between CDMA EV-DO Rev-A and LTE technologies in a demonstration with VoIP calls and streaming video.
 
The handoff technique illustrated how service providers using CDMA-based networks today can smoothly integrate broadband OFDMA and IP packet-based wireless broadband technologies such as LTE into their network, company officials say, enabling the rollout of more interactive services like HD mobile blogging and broadcasting, HD video-on-demand and online gaming.

Source:TMCnet