Nokia Siemens Networks drives evolution to TD-LTE

Shanghai, China - Unveils complete integration of TD-LTE into existing mobile portfolio

Telecom operators across the globe can now gain quick and simple access to LTE-based mobile broadband for unpaired frequency bands. At the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Industry Conference today, Nokia Siemens Networks announced that it has fully integrated TD-LTE with its existing mobile platforms including base stations and core networks. The company also showcased the industry’s first concurrent TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE demo. The co-existence of the two technologies is a significant step towards facilitating operators’ transition to TD-LTE and was conducted on Nokia Siemens Networks’ Flexi Multiradio Base Station.

There is an abundance of available unpaired spectrum in many countries across the world. Operators can use this spectrum to make a quick transition to TD-LTE mobile broadband to meet their immediate connectivity needs or to realize a true mobile broadband experience.

“TD-LTE is an evolutionary path for 3G TD-SCDMA and WiMAX networks, as well as an option for operators around the world who have available unpaired spectrum. The shift from TD-SCDMA and WiMAX to TD-LTE, will be a gradual process, thereby making it important that the two technologies co-exist with each other,” said Thorsten Robrecht, head of LTE product management, Nokia Siemens Networks. “This achievement marks a solid step towards seamless evolution to TD-LTE and will enable operators to quickly move to the technology.”

Nokia Siemens Networks’ TD-LTE offering is designed for the global market, targeted to ensure high-speed mobile broadband connectivity across a wide range of end-user devices and applications in networks with unpaired frequency bands.

Based on Nokia Siemens Networks’ Single RAN solution that supports LTE in the paired and unpaired spectrum on the same Flexi Multiradio Base Station, the TD-LTE variant is fully compliant with 3GPP Release 8 LTE specifications. In addition, the common platform ensures easy maintenance and rapid evolution to future standards such as LTE-Advanced.

Nokia Siemens Networks supports LTE for both FDD, serving paired frequencies and TDD serving un-paired frequency bands and provides a smooth evolution path to LTE for all operators. With its unique holistic approach to LTE, Nokia Siemens Networks is leveraging its global presence and rich experience in mobile broadband to enable a widespread ecosystem of TD-LTE including interoperability tests, provision of applications, professional services and end-to-end delivery. The company has Centers of Competence for LTE in all the leading markets and is actively working with leading device vendors to ensure early commercial availability of TD-LTE infrastructure and devices.
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Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland.
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Note to Editors:

LTE can be offered either in paired (FDD - Frequency Division Duplexing) or unpaired (TDD - Time Division Duplexing) spectrums. Different operators will move towards either one of these versions.

Nokia Siemens Networks’ Single RAN provides a future-proof, easy and cost-efficient path to LTE in both FDD and TDD spectrum via a software upgrade. Featuring the award-winning LTE-capable Flexi Multiradio Base Station that supports GSM, 3G, FDD-LTE as well as TD-LTE, our TD-LTE telecom infrastructure offering comprises Evolved Packet Core including Flexi NS (Network Server) and Flexi NG (Network Gateway), transport solutions, network management system, Self Organizing Networks (SON) and award-winning Voice over LTE (VoLTE). Nokia Siemens Networks Single RAN has been shipped to almost all the company’s 3G customers since September 2008.

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the next-generation mobile broadband technology and the evolutionary step from GSM, WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, CDMA and WiMAX networks. It promises the delivery of broadband and smartphone services, thanks to increased data rates, reduced latency and a scalable flat all-IP network architecture. Nokia Siemens Networks is the frontrunner in LTE and has a long track record in demonstrating its technological leadership in LTE:

* November 2006: Nokia Siemens Networks conducted the world’s first LTE demo with a handover to HSPA at the ITU World Congress in Hong Kong

* September 2008: Nokia Siemens Networks shipped the industry’s first LTE base station hardware to customers

* November 2008: Nokia Siemens Networks conducted the world’s first demonstration of LTE-Advanced Relaying technology

* September 2009: Nokia Siemens Networks made the world’s first LTE call using a commercial base station and fully standards-compliant software (3GPP Rel 8 March 09 baseline)

* September 2009: Nokia Siemens Networks conducted with China Mobile the world’s first TD-LTE femtocell demonstration

* October 2009: Nokia Siemens Networks conducted the world’s first TD-LTE call using its Flexi Multiradio base station and fully standards-compliant software (3GPP Rel 8 March 09 baseline)

* October 2009: Nokia Siemens Networks conducts end-to-end LTE interoperability testing with four leading device vendors across several frequency bands

* November 2009: Nokia Siemens Networks is a founding member of the One Voice initiative providing a blueprint for the early deployment of IMS-based Voice over LTE service. The company’s Fast Track approach is fully compliant with One Voice

* December 2009: Nokia Siemens Networks registers another first in LTE with 3GPP standardized voice over LTE calls. Successful IMS-compliant voice calls and SMS messaging using standardized LTE equipment marks an important step towards commercial voice over LTE deployments

* March 2010: World’s first call between different VoLTE clients showcased at CTIA 2010. Nokia Siemens Networks demonstrates standards-based Voice over LTE (VoLTE) interoperability using two different clients running on Samsung LTE devices

* April 2010: Nokia Siemens Networks sets up industry’s first TD-LTE Open Lab. Provides smart phone and terminal testing facility to accelerate TD-LTE ecosystem

* April 2010: Nokia Siemens Networks successfully completed MIIT’s TD-LTE field trials based on its commercial Flexi Multiradio base station in China

* April 2010: TD-LTE ecosystem reaches maturity with landmark data call. Samsung and Nokia Siemens Networks collaborate on world’s first end-to-end TD-LTE data call

* May 2010: Nokia Siemens Networks in landmark TD-LTE video call. Collaborates with industry partners to conduct first live TD-LTE demo between Shanghai and Taipei