ZTE, a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has debuted its high-speed LTE-Advanced system at the P&T/Expo Comm China in Beijing. The expo is the largest event for the IT and telecom market held in Asia.
ZTE claimed the demo generated a downlink peak rate of more than 1Gbit/second at the expo.
LTE-Advanced introduces carrier aggregation, enhanced antenna, relay, Coordinated Multi-point Tx/Rx (CoMP) and other key technologies. ZTE expects that LTE-Advanced based ZTE base stations will be available by 2012.
“ZTE is committed to pushing LTE & 4G technology and industry development, we are dedicated to providing competitive, customised mobile broadband solutions to our customers to help them succeed.” said Li Jian, President of ZTE CDMA<E Production Line.
ZTE Corporation says it has been continuously investing in LTE and technical evolution, and has almost 4000 engineers dedicated to the work. As of the first half of 2010, ZTE had applied for more than 2600 LTE/SAE patents and submitted 5400 proposals to the 3GPP.