Huawei has announced the deployment of its 42Mbps Dual Carrier HSPA+ solution for Orange Poland with a live demonstration of its 42Mbps service on 6th October 2010 in Krakow. With a Huawei network infrastructure and Huawei Dual Carrier terminals E372, a 41.7 Mbps throughput is said to have been achieved. Orange Poland also revealed its plans to deploy Dual Carrier 42Mbps service in five biggest cities in Poland by the end of 2010.
Dual Carrier technology is based on the principle of simultaneously employing two carrier channels, which allows an effective maximum theoretical throughput of 42Mbps. The 42Mbps Dual Carrier HSPA+ solutions is an upgrade that doubles the downlink peak data rate of Orange Poland’s current Huawei HSPA+ mobile broadband network.
Huawei is said to be the world’s first vendor to provide end-to-end commercial Dual Carrier HSPA+ solutions for mobile broadband operators worldwide, including infrastructure and terminals. Huawei assists 52 operators in HSPA+ network deployment, of which 33 are HSPA+ commercial networks and 19 are HSPA+ networks in deployment or trial.
Orange Poland is said to be the biggest mobile operator in Poland, which provides voice and data services to its 14 million subscribers.