Huawei and Singapore telco StarHub recently demonstrated a live peak speed on mobile, showcasing the world’s fastest 1Gbps indoor coverage solution at the Pan Pacific Singapore.
All in a single small cell base station no bigger than a ream of A4 paper, the new 4G LTE-Advanced solution combined StarHub’s 55MHz of frequency spectrum across the 1800MHz, 2100MHz and 2600MHz bands to deliver gigabit-bandwidth, said Huawei.
Other technological breakthroughs in small cell air interface that enabled higher 4G data rates include 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, 3-component-carrier aggregation and Distributed Multiple Input Multiple Output.
This milestone comes after StarHub’s deployment of Huawei’s small cell solution as part of its 4G LTE-Advanced Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) upgrade at Marina Bay last year, to boost indoor network capacity and speeds for customers.
Mock Pak Lum, Chief Technology Offucer, Starhub
We are closely tracking the development of this new small cell solution, to help us enhance network quality quickly and cost-efficiently, providing customers with much faster data speeds even within buildings and in crowded areas.
David Zheng, Vice President of Small Cell Product Line, Wireless Production Line, Huawei
The continuous advancement of mobile network technologies offers tremendous opportunities for better service experience over apps on smart devices. Indoor digital networks will be just as indispensable as running water and electricity for buildings.
