EVDO Rev C - 200Mbps?

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1969

We've discussed Rev B a while back at a whopping 72Mbps downlink but Rev C specs are already in the works at 200Mbps down. Could the carriers feed that much into every cell tower?

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=6162

CDMA2000 evolution will include the following milestones:

# CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A: The commercial availability and first deployments of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A in Asia and North America will start at the end of 2006, with wide deployment in 2007. Revision A leverages CDMA's IP infrastructure and introduces enhancements that support latency-sensitive and bandwidth-intensive applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and Instant Multimedia Messaging (IMM), and it allows operators to provide integrated voice, data and video services at a lower cost and across multiple networks. KDDI, LG Telecom, Sprint Nextel, Telecom New Zealand and Verizon Wireless are among the operators that have committed to or have begun deploying Revision A.

# CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision B: Approved for publishing by 3GPP2 TSG-C in March 2006, the Revision B standard increases throughput to 73.5 Mbps on the downlink and 27 Mbps on the uplink via multiple carriers and a 64-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation scheme.

# CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision C: This advanced interface will deliver higher data rates and spectral efficiency along with low latency, making it ideal for enriched multimedia services. Revision C will support flexible and dynamic channel bandwidth scalability from 1.25 MHz up to 20 MHz and will be backward-compatible with Revisions A and B. Currently, 3GPP2 is evaluating various proposals, which include OFDM, MIMO, SDMA and Interference Cancellation techniques, with the harmonization of the proposals to be completed by June of this year.

It expected that Revision C will increase the peak rates up to 200 Mbps in the downlink, also providing gain in sector throughput, which is essential for cost-effectively supporting several broadband users simultaneously. The standard is expected to be published by Q2 2007 with commercial products in the second half of 2008.

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1969

More here...

Sprint has talked about trialing OFDM.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/conws/3774228.html

"1xEV-DO Revision C incorporates the advancements in OFDM and MIMO technologies that are fundamentally going to be a common building block for all the next-generation wireless access technologies," said Doug Wolff, general manager, CDMA, Nortel. "While laying a competitive evolution path for operators, 1xEV-DO Revision C will change the way subscribers use broadband wireless by delivering significant increase in throughputs and peak rates."

rickster · EVDO Junkie Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 216

Sorry to go off topic but more and more I'm seeing the infrasture coming into place for the StarTrek "Borg" http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/aliens/article/70558.html
Will the "collective" be on EV-DO Rev D? Smile

Chuck · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 149

Don't get it... but I don't watch Star Trek either. Rolling Eyes