Thread: Yota: done testing Mobile WiMAX Release 2.0

Company Yota, service provider access to speedy wireless Internet technology Mobile WiMAX(4G), in conjunction with our partner Samsung Electronics, has begun testing the next version of technology Mobile WiMAX - Release 2.0 (standard IEEE 802.16m).

Standard 802.16m - this is release 2.0 technology mobile broadband Mobile WiMAX. He is considered the most likely candidate among all the technologies of communication so-called generation IMT-Advanced (Enhanced IMT-2000) on the status of the new standard for commercial use. Speed data transmission networks Mobile WiMAX Release 2.0 more than 4 times higher than in the networks of current technology Mobile WiMAX (802.16e). This is achieved using technical solutions Multi-User MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output), enhances the efficiency of the frequency range. It is expected that 802.16m will have higher performance than the standard 3GPP LTE.

Mobile WiMAX Release 2.0 provides full backward compatibility with the decisions of Mobile WiMAX Release 1.0 (802.16e). With this current Mobile WiMAX operators can cheaply switch to the technology 802.16m, updating of the modules on the motherboard and software of their base stations. Current subscriber devices Mobile WiMAX Release 1.0 is also fully compatible with the base stations, which will be developed in the future.

As members of the board of directors of standardizing organization WiMAX Forum, industry leaders and Mobile WiMAX (technology development and commercial exploitation of networks based on it) the company Yota and Samsung have played an important role in creating the technological specifications of Mobile WiMAX Release 2.0 and its moving around the world. At the international exhibition ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva will be demonstrated in action Samsung decided on the basis of 802.16m. This will be used in base stations, Samsung U-RAS Flexible Update modules, the existing Mobile WiMAX subscriber device and a prototype of a new device, developed under the Mobile WiMAX Release 2.0. The purpose of the demonstration - to show full backward compatibility between technologies Mobile WiMAX Release 2.0 (802.16m) and Mobile WiMAX Release 1.0 (802.16e).

"The new version of Mobile WiMAX - Release 2.0 - is the logical evolution of technological standards and opportunities to develop new online multimedia services, - notes Yota CEO Denis Sverdlov. - Many customers Yota, for example, actively watching video over the Internet 4G. But now film in HD quality, you must first download, but with the help of technology WiMAX 802.16m it can be to watch online on a large TV. This is just one example, and, in addition to online HD, the completely new projects, which are now hard to imagine not only users but also by the developers.In addition, the capacity of new base stations at times more, and we can provide services to a greater number of clients with the same number of base stations. And in order to offer new solutions to tomorrow, efforts should apply today.

It is planned that the world's first technical solution Mobile WiMAX Release 2.0 from the Samsung company Yota install into its network by the end of 2010. Yota one of the world's first commercially launched a network of Mobile WiMAX (in Moscow, St. Petersburg). Company builds Yota Mobile WiMAX network in other Russian cities and in other countries. Together with WiMAX-operators Clearwire (USA) and UQ Communications (Japan) Yota proceeded to create an international WiMAX-roaming.

Earlier Yota company began testing of a Mobile WiMAX network in Krasnodar and Sochi.Traditionally the test operation in these cities will start to run the team Yota.