Telecoms Tech

One of the key aspect fundamentally missing from thecurrent Internet infrastructure is an advanced service networking platform and facilities, which take advantage of flexible sharing of available connectivity,computation, and storage resources.

Mobile Internet has recently started to become a reality forboth users and operators thanks to the success of novel, extremely practicalsmartphones, portable computers with easy-to-use 3G USB modems and attractivebusiness models. Based on the current trends in telecommunications, vendorsprognosticate that mobile networks will suffer an immense traffic explosion inthe packet switched domain up to year 2020.

Owing to the high peak and average speedsof LTE, high-speed backhaul links are essential to ensure that the capabilitiesof the LTE air interface can be fully utilized. A three sector eNode-B with a channelbandwidth of 20MHz in each sector can easily achieve peak datarates that arethree times 100 Mbit/s, that is, 300 Mbit/s in total.

As depicted in the illustration below, the world has become a content producer. People create and upload their own pieces of art onto the networkwhile enjoying other people’s masterpieces. It may be expected that in 4G the communication networks will continue to expand so as to include all kinds of channels with various throughputs, quality of services and protocols, and heterogeneous terminals with a wide range of capabilities, accessibilities and user preference.

The purpose of this report is to discuss the opportunity for wirelessly connected devices. We explore two main themes: Why embed devices for mobile connectivity? And why choose to embed the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) family of wireless technologies?

Mainly due to the success of the Internet with its steady growth and ubiquitous reach, IP has for a long time shown its predominance as the preferred protocol and has more lately become the one protocol on which to base each application. However, network operators have been for many years compelled to deploy several other technologies to implement the services they wanted to sell....