Proximus, the largest of Belgium's three mobile operators in partnership with Huawei announced that it has successfully completed a live demonstration of a 1.1Gbps peak connection speed on a Live Mobile Network.
Leveraging on Huawei’s 4.5G platform, ‘LTE Advance Pro’, the trial combined Proximus’ 60MHz frequency spectrum across the 2600MHz, 2100MHz, 1800MHz and 800MHz bands to deliver 1.1Gbps. As smartphones, wearables, connected cars, and other IoT applications develop at an increasing pace, driving the need for higher speeds, more connections and next to no latency, the telecommunications industry will have to be ready to cope with these increasing demands, said Proximus.
Reaching speeds 8 times faster than the 150 Mbps peak rate on 4G, this achievement also represents an overall improvement in the peak rate, capacity, and cell edge throughput. The trial is expected to open the way for future types of terminals and services such as 2K and 4K video, virtual reality, augmented reality, and other services which require gigabit connections provided by 4.5G to offer users a truly immersive experience. With its aim to support larger bandwidths, reduced latencies, and massive connections, 4.5G lays a solid foundation for 5G commercialization along the LTE evolution path, while also making a soft transition from 4G, said the Operator.
Geert Standaert, Chief Technology Officer at Proximus
At Proximus, we believe the abundance of applications will require higher network performance in terms of speed, latency, and number of simultaneous connections. Just look at all the applications in advanced telemedicine, connected cars, or the all-pervasive media.
Pedro Ferreira, CEO Huawei Technologies Belgium
Huawei enable partnerships through innovation; together we build next generation networks ensuring the best user experience towards end users.
