The Chinese company expects the solution to be commercially available in 2016
SHANGHAI – Huawei has launched its new TDD+ solution in collaboration with its industry partners China Mobile and Japanese telecom operator SoftBank. The telecom equipment manufacturer announced the new tech at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015.
David Wang, Huawei’s wireless network product line president, told reporters that the new solution will be commercially available in 2016. He added that both China Mobile and SoftBank will carry out trials before the end of this year. Wang also said that Huawei will welcome additional partners to help promote the TDD+ industry chain.
Huawei said that the TDD+ technology can provide an xGbps-level user experience, uncover more business opportunities for carriers and maximize their return on investment. The company said it conceived TDD+ to offer a solution – compatible with existing 4G networks – for service providers to be in a position to meet increasing mobile traffic demands. TDD+ also increases spectral efficiency and system capacity by using high-performance Cloud-baseband chips and features such as distributed MIMO, massive CA, high-order modulation, high-order MIMO, and multi-user 3D beamforming.
As a key 4.5G solution, TDD+ technology can improve the user experience and enables wireless services to enter the xGbps era. Based on existing 4G technology such as 4T4R and 8T8R, TDD+ can enable the efficient use of large and heavily composed multiple-antenna systems networking through software upgrades and the CloudBB technology, Wang said.
Huawei currently leads the TDD-LTE market, with 40 out of 54 deployed networks in 34 countries around the world. Wang said that Huawei has shipped 50% of total TDD-LTE base stations globally.
According to Huawei, China and Japan will see the first wave of TDD+ networks. However, the Chinese firm said that this new technology could be implemented by any operator with TDD spectrum.
In related news, 3 Hong Kong, the mobile communications division of Hutchison Telecom Hong Kong Holdings, and Huawei have announced the successful demonstration of an end-to-end FDD and TDD LTE-A commercial network in Hong Kong using carrier aggregation technology and terminals chip-powered by Qualcomm Technologies.
