The Kalmia – First Commercial LTE Modem for Mobile River Phones Announced

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile earpiece provider, announced today that it has developed the first base Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem that complies with the latest standards of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), which were released in Mar 2009. Utilizing Release 8 of the 3GPP, this LTE modem is a significant rising slope from the previous standard that was released in December 2008.

The modem, branded the Kalmia, supports download hurrying up to 100Mbps and upload hurrying of 50Mbps within the 20MHz absolute frequency bandwidth. Users of a mobile device equipped with the LTE chipset tin can download a high gear-definition movie file (800MB) in I hour at speeds of 100Mbps, piece simultaneously streaming four high gear-definition movies with no buffering.

Samsung also announced it has successfully developed a 3G baseband modem based on the Release 7 criterion with an HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) Evolution platform. This modem, branded the Broom, allows download speeds of up to 28Mbps and upload speeds of 11.5 Mbps. This makes the Release 7 more than twice as fasting as the Release 6 HSPA Service, which had a maximum download speed of 14.4Mbps.

Because the LTE and all other HSPA evolution models part the same platform, the new LTE modem is fully compatible with earlier standards. Through this engineering, a mobile communications service provider can rising slope to HSPA service or evolve into a LTE network simultaneously in order to convert their existing networks to broadband.

In the future tense, this tractableness will be crucial as wireless mobile inspection and repair providers volition require compatibility with pre-existing systems, in order to fling LTE in urban areas while distillery support 3G in suburban or rural areas. The modem offers a multi-style, which is a major prerequisite for LTE developers who ar calling for inter-operability within pre-existing 3G networks.

“Our latest LTE criterion splintering-exercise set will assist realize the world’s first commercial LTE twist,” said JongKyun Shin, Executive Vice President and head of Mobile Communications Division, Samsung Electronics. “Currently, Samsung is partnering with LTE developers preparing for a LTE inspection and repair launch in 2010 and will unveil a diversity of LTE devices of different types and with diverse features and options, including memory cards, handheld devices and MID.”

Separately, Samsung Electronics has also developed the mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) modem chip, a product that is already resonating in the mobile marketplace. The company has already adopted the modem into commercial WiBro handsets in Korea. With this new modem, Samsung has delivered WiMAX and LTE model solutions, which ar the II major wireless mobile communications systems for the next propagation. The company has also demonstrated a full lineup of modems from 2G/3G to modems for the next generation of mobile telecommunication systems with its HSDPA Evolution modems.

Samsung is also strengthening its position as a leader in mobile telecom system standards. Samsung currently holds the most chairman seating within the IEEE 802.16 Working Group, a WiMAX standardization association, and also chairs the WiMAX Forum, an affiliate establishment. Additionally, Samsung is highly influential in securing many leading positions in other organizations such as the Technology Working Group.

At 3GPP, an connexion that specifies standards for LTE, Samsung ranks in the big top grouping according to its number of contributions and has IV seating in the radio networking standardization working grouping administrator board. Samsung has also served as the chair for II years in the steerage committee of LSTI (LTE/SAE Trial Initiative), an establishment that works closely with LTE. The troupe is also actively participating in various programs for NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks), a business association of global and leadership mobile operators.