[AusNOG] Telstra doubles wireless internet speed

[Mark Smith]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:11:44 +1100
"Darren Moss" <Darren.Moss at em3.com.au> wrote:

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are
not."

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra


> Hi Noggers,
>  
> I thought this information was interesting from Telstra today.
> I have done my best to edit the fluff out of this post.
>  
> Telstra doubles the speed of its Next G HSPA+ network
>  
>       Mitchell Bingemann
>       From: The Australian
>       February 16, 2010 12:00AM
>  
> TELSTRA has doubled the speed of its Next G HSPA+ network to allow
> theoretical maximum download speeds of 42 megabits per second and says
> speeds of up to 82Mbps are now only a year away.
> 
> The download speed increase, from 21Mbps to 42Mbps, has been made
> possible by a software upgrade to Telstra's Next G network using dual
> carrier technology.
> The next promised speed increase to 82Mbps puts the wireless network's
> theoretical speed close to the government's vow of 100Mbps on the
> national broadband network.
> 
> "Dual carrier is a technique where you combine two conventional HSPA+
> channels simultaneously to double the peak speed on a data modem,"
> Telstra executive director of wireless, Mike Wright said.
>  
> However, although the network is capable of peak speeds of 42Mbps,
> real-life speeds are likely to only hit a quarter of the peak rate.
> "Today we tell our customers to expect between 550kbps and 8Mbps in the
> real world, but with this dual carrier technology we can now double
> that," Mr Wright said.tner Ericsson, with Qualcomm and Sierra Wireless
> joining the team to deliver a HSPA+ Dual Carrier chipset and device.
>  
> "While LTE remains on Telstra's technology roadmap, there is a huge
> amount of potential remaining in HSPA+. We will take full advantage of
> this by again doubling our peak network speeds to 84Mbps through the
> implementation of HSPA+ Dual Carrier plus MIMO technology during 2011,"
> Mr Thodey said.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards, 
>  
>  
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