5G Technology World

  • 5G Technology and Engineering
  • Apps
  • Devices
  • IoT
  • RF
  • Radar
  • EE Learning Center
  • 5G Videos
  • Handbooks
    • 2022
    • 2021
  • Design Guides
    • WiFi & the IOT Design Guide
    • Microcontrollers Design Guide
    • State of the Art Inductors Design Guide

@CTIA 2009: Alcatel-Lucent Intros EPC for LTE

By Staff Author | April 1, 2009

LAS VEGAS—Alcatel-Lucent may have gotten a big win at Mobile World Congress (MWC) when Verizon Wireless named it as one of its LTE vendors, but it wants other operators to know what it has in store for LTE. The company today is touting its Evolved Packet Core (EPC), an all-IP portfolio designed for operators planning to deploy LTE.

The EPC is a critical element of the company’s end-to-end LTE solution, leveraging Alcatel-Lucent’s expertise in IP service routing and experience in the deployment of wireline “triple play” networks.

Increasingly, next-gen wireless architecture is looking more like wireline, notes Lindsay Newell, vice president of marketing for Alcatel-Lucent’s IP activities. “We’ve been talking about convergence for a long time,” he says, and probably will be for the next five years. Still, LTE will be a big contributor to commonality across wireless and wireline.

Verizon Wireless may use pieces of Alcatel-Lucent’s EPC, or it might use some components and not others. Regardless, the vendor is letting the carrier world know that its solution is equally applicable whether an operator is moving from the CDMA and EV-DO world or from HSPA to LTE.

While other vendors make the case for incremental software and hardware changes when going from 3G to LTE, Alcatel-Lucent believes the requirements of LTE are revolutionary, not evolutionary, and therefore new platforms must be purpose-built and optimized for LTE, he says.

The solution includes network policy and personal subscriber policy control, so that operators can determine what rights a customer has to surfing, downloading and other services.

More FirstNews 04/01/09:

•  @CTIA 2009: RIM Launches BlackBerry App World

•  Pre-CTIA Event: iPhone Still Stealing the Show 

•  @CTIA 2009: Samsung Unveils WiMAX Capable Device
•  @CTIA 2009: T-Mobile: G1 Users Use Data in Record Numbers
•  @CTIA 2009: HTC Unveils New Snap Smartphone
•  FLO TV Expands into More Markets
•  @CTIA 2009: Clearwire Showcases Wi-Fi Hot Spot Expander
•  @CTIA 2009: Alcatel-Lucent Intros EPC for LTE
•  FirstNews Briefs for April 01, 2009

 

Related Articles Read More >

5G vectors
How RedCap fits into 5G and IoT
Benetel RAN650
OpenRAN mid-band radio brings cellular to private and campus networks
Don’t push on that icon and other 3G sunset issues
LTE Cat 1 modules target worldwide IoT connectivity

Special Issue: 5G Handbook

Need 5G Technology World news in a minute?

We Deliver!
5G Technology World Enewsletters get you caught up on all the mission critical news you need. Sign up today.
Enews Signup

EE World Online Twitter

Tweets by @RandDWorld

EE TRAINING CENTER CLASSROOMS

EE Classrooms
5G Technology World
  • Enews Signup
  • Contact Us
  • EE World Online
  • DesignFast
  • EDABoard Forums
  • Electro-Tech-Online Forums
  • Microcontroller Tips
  • Analogic Tips
  • Connector Tips
  • Engineer’s Garage
  • Power Electronic Tips
  • Sensor Tips
  • Test and Measurement Tips
  • Wire & Cable Tips

Copyright © 2022 WTWH Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media
Privacy Policy | Advertising | About Us

Search 5G Technology World

  • 5G Technology and Engineering
  • Apps
  • Devices
  • IoT
  • RF
  • Radar
  • EE Learning Center
  • 5G Videos
  • Handbooks
    • 2022
    • 2021
  • Design Guides
    • WiFi & the IOT Design Guide
    • Microcontrollers Design Guide
    • State of the Art Inductors Design Guide