Option says that it has carried out the first demonstration of live HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) data card calls
reaching a wireless uplink transmission rate of 1.3 Mbps and a wireless downlink of 2.7 Mbps at application level. The test calls were carried out at Nortel’s research campus in Chateaufort, France. Commercial availability of “HSUPA-Ready” and full HSUPA products from Option are planned for the first half of 2007.
Whereas HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) enables users to receive large data files across the “downlink”, HSUPA increases the speed at which users can send large data files
across the “uplink”, to a theoretical maximum of 5.7 Mbps
The demo used a laptop, fitted with an Option HSUPA data card (category 3 in uplink, cat 6 in downlink) based on Qualcomm MSM7200™ chipset, and commercial HSDPA/HSUPA network equipment from Nortel.
The companies completed an initial series of tests deploying a number of applications such as: uploading a 15 MB file onto a server, sending and receiving e-mails with large attachments, demonstrating the simultaneous HSD (High Speed Downlink) and HSUPA capabilities and video conference over IP. In addition, the HSUPA and HSDPA calls were also conducted in a car while driving at 50 km/h.