Here we are back for Part 2. When we left off I was telling you about capacity in 4G LTE. It sounds like things are moving along pretty good doesn’t it? Well they would be if we stopped at Smartphones. Things… as they always do…are moving faster than that.
There is a great demand for more and more connected things-as I talked about in my 5G article-and you are probably hearing about on TV.
The problem with 4G LTE systems is they are designed around this “get ’em in… get ’em out” model I told you about last time. These new devices don’t work like that. They only want to send a little bit of data but they want to be able to send it all at once all the time. They want to be permanently connected.
This is where 4G LTE falls down. Yes I can add lanes to the highway to move a lot of data but you don’t have a lot of data. I want to drop you to move to the next guy but you keep talking and won’t let me leave.
As a provider I have new problems now. My network is built wrong for this new challenge. How can I fix it?
Well Step One: Let’s remove your dependence on that old school 3G network. If we do that we can reuse the Spectrum that we have dedicated for voice and slow data, and then add that to our 4G LTE network … more lanes!
Ok but what about voice? We can solve that! We’ll just put voice traffic in a data lane.
What?!
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