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Verizon 4G LTE Tests Planned For Seattle, Boston
suraj.sun writes "Verizon will kick off tests of its LTE network in Seattle and Boston later this year, and is 'working on a commercial launch of LTE service in up to 30 markets next year. LTE is Verizon's next-generation, '4G' network, which will supplement and eventually replace its existing CDMA network and provide average data speeds between 8-12 Mbps. Their ultimate goal is to cover 100 million 'points of presence' nationwide by the end of 2013."
LTE is known as 3.9G everywhere else in the world.
But hey, we're just dumb Americans.
I think Marie Antoinette encapsulated the American telecom business attitude in the incorrectly attributed quote, "Let them eat crumbs"
but we are in a Verizon colo
Your first problem. Take this as a lesson for your next job. Carrier neutral facilities are nice because they are not owned by the crappy carriers. You can find a ton of these facilities in Atlanta.
Also, I don't think it is fair to compare the datacenter activities with the wireless activities. Inside Verizon, these are definitely two totally different business units.
Well, close, but I bet you didn't realize that the RIAA is responsible for a lot of the evil plots that are hatched because of the unnatural alliance between the major cell carriers and the large record producers (Big Telco and Big Recording...now it's musical!)...
meh...it's late.
I'd happily pay you Tuesday for a biopsy today!
Connection speed is almost always rated in Mbps - but that's only half the equation. What about latency?
I have a cellular wireless card that works well enough to enable the 'digital nomad' lifestyle mentioned earlier today, but to say that it's a joy to have latency that bounces between 150ms and 1500ms is taking sarcasm to its extreme.
More than the bandwidth, I want to know if the sub-50 ms ping times I see on a DSL or other 'land line' are going to be likely? Seems lame that transmitting a packetized radio signal for about 2 miles introduces more latency than the other 3,000 miles over fiber optics.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
LTE is the 4G successor of HSPA+ so you're not really getting anything state of the art up there in the north. It's more like a squeezed 3.5G lemon
Verizon is advertising 8-12 average speed. LTE is in theory capable of doing 150Mbs
If Verizon is getting ready to build a partial network to do testing, where does this put the development and production of the necessary chipsets?
The last I heard, the LTE chipsets necessary for high-power devices (laptop cards, etc) were not expected before late 2010. Chipsets for low-power devices (phones) were a couple of years farther out - 2012 or later. Has this changed, or is this still the right timetable?
It's cool that Verizon is building a LTE network, but if we're years away from having devices that can use it, I guess I don't see the point of it or why everyone is so excited.
Verizon is advertising 8-12 average speed. LTE is in theory capable of doing 150Mbs
Have they upgraded the network as well?
It doesn't matter if you're connected to the tower at 100Gb/s if the tower is only connected by a single T-1.
Right now, even 3G is saturating what little pipe they have available to the tower.
This will only be useful if they do something about those horrible 5 gig caps. HIgher speeds entices people to do more bandwidth intensive activities on their iPhones. It would also be nice if the FCC punished AT&T and Verizon for charging HUGE markups on their special access lines, raising the price of wireless services for everyone in the US.
The telco side of Verizon gave me an OC-12 that I didn't order at no charge, so they aren't completely bad. YMMV. On the other hand, I have an OC-12 that I'm not really using if anyone wants to colo with me. ;)
Sounds like it's time for you to find a colo that doesn't jerk you around. There's plenty around. Go carrier neutral or pick a smaller shop that has more of a focus on customer service because they actually value your business.
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8-12 mbit is not 4G.
By definition, the objective of 4G is to support:
+ A nominal data rate of 100 Mbit/s while the client physically moves at high speeds relative to the station, and 1 Gbit/s while client and station are in relatively fixed positions as defined by the ITU-R,[3]
+ A data rate of at least 100 Mbit/s between any two points in the world,[3]