UMTS: Alive and Well - 4G Americas

increases through load balancing and interference management. Andrew also provides easilyintegrated element managers for the remote access and control of repeaters and TMAs. Thesetools are aimed at enhancing the operators’ ability to implement optimization plans quickly andreduce operating expenses significantly.• Geolocation – Andrew is a market leader in wireless location services, supporting wirelessoperators in their efforts to meet E911 regulatory requirements with systems that enable bothE911 and commercial Location-Based Services (LBS). Andrew’s GeoLENs Mobile LocationCenter (MLC) is a commercially available, industry-leading system used for the location of mobilephones connected to 2G-GERAN and 3G-UTRAN networks. The GeoLENs MLC can coordinatesystems that use Location Measurement Units (LMU) to monitor air interface signals as well ashybrid methods that combine measurements from any of the following sources:oooooCell ID (CID)Enhanced Cell ID (E-CID) using Timing Advance (TA)Network Measurement Report (NMR) in the GERANRound-Trip Timing (RTT) in the UTRANGPS (Autonomous, Network-Assisted and Device-Assisted)The GeoLENs platform enables a wide variety of emergency, commercial and security LBS.Andrew is evolving the GeoLENs MLC to seamlessly support location services in LTE networks inaccordance with the recommendations of both the 3GPP and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) specificationsgroups. 3G operators migrating to LTE will be able to add the LTE node functionality as required toexisting GeoLENS MLC platforms already supporting their 2G and 3G networks. CDMA operatorsmigrating to 3GPP/LTE will be able to deploy a proven platform into their new network environment.Andrew is at the forefront of standardization efforts both in 3GPP as well as in the OMA forums. Andrewis actively involved in the Rel-9 standardization efforts to specify the wireless location servicesarchitecture, technologies, and protocols and remains an active contributor as OMA finalizes SUPL 2.0definitions and initiates work on SUPL 3.0.Ericsson: Today's mobile broadband services enabled by Ericsson WCDMA/HSPA systems support upto 28 Mbps peak theoretical throughput on the downlink and up to 5.8 Mbps on the uplink. In December2008, Ericsson was the first vendor to provide the first step of HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) in commercialnetworks in both Australia and Europe when up to 21 Mbps peak theoretical downlink speeds whereenabled by Telstra and 3 Sweden. On July 17, 2009, Telecom Italy launched the world’s first HSPAMIMO network, supplied by Ericsson, with peak theoretical downlink speeds up to 28 Mbps. Keycharacteristics in Ericsson's WCDMA/HSPA offering for mobile broadband are superior radio performancewith a comprehensive RBS portfolio for optimized coverage and capacity, excellent in-serviceperformance built on scalable and future proof 3G platforms with an easy path to further steps in HSPAEvolution that will increase HSPA peak theoretical throughput speeds up to 84 Mbps and above on thedownlink and more than 12 Mbps on the uplink within the coming years.Moving on to the next step in mobile broadband, in January 2008, Ericsson became the first company todemonstrate LTE operating in both FDD and TDD modes on the same base station platform. By using thesame platform for both paired and unpaired spectrum, LTE provides large economies of scale foroperators. In order to make LTE licensing as fair and reasonable as possible, in April 2008, Ericssonannounced its role in a joint initiative with Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokiawww.3GAmericas.org February 2010 Page 119