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Alcatel Lucent Supports UK Universal Broadband Access with lightRadio Tech

Posted: 08th Feb, 2011 By: MarkJ
lightradio cubealcatel lucentAlcatel-Lucent has unveiled its new lightRadio technology. This effectively shrinks the traditional Wireless Masts and Base Stations into a much more compact form factor, which can be connected up almost anywhere that a broadband connection is available. Similar to femtocells but a lot more sophisticated.

The technology firm claims that its solution, which works over all of the major mobile operator frequencies (radio spectrum bands) from 2G to 4G and beyond (400MHz - 4000MHz), will be significantly cheaper (up to 50%) to run and use about half as much electricity as the old method.

Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Ex-BT Boss, said:

"lightRadio is a smart solution to a tough set of problems: high energy costs, the explosion of video on mobile, and connecting the unconnected ... it will signal the end of the basestation and the cell tower as we know it today."

It does all this by reducing the cell site to just an antenna and leveraging future advances in microwave backhaul and compression techniques. The end product is a small hand-sized unit (lightRadio cube) that can be mounted on poles or the sides of buildings (homes, businesses).

As a result, lightRadio could even solve Mobile Broadband capacity concerns and the "Digital Divide" between urban and rural areas, simply by enabling the easy creation of broadband internet access coverage virtually anywhere there is power. Fixed line fibre ISP or microwave backhaul links can be used to connect each device up and into a mesh/cloud of similar units.

Alain Maloberti, Senior VP of Network Architecture and Design for France Telecom ( Orange ), said:

"Alcatel-Lucent’s new vision and strategy of mobile broadband is quite exciting: the new wireless network architecture and innovative radio proposal will potentially help us to achieve significant operating cost savings and be better prepared for future challenges. We look forward to work closely with Alcatel-Lucent to explore and test this new approach."

Alcatel-Lucent’s new lightRadio product family is expected to begin its first customer trials in the second half 2011, so we probably won't see any real commercial deployments until next year. Orange is the first European operator to trial it, although others could follow.
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