Rev. B is Commercial!
Smart Telecom of Indonesia launched the world’s first EV-DO Rev. B network in early January 2010. With many more operators announcing trials and commercial deployment plans, EV-DO Rev. B is ready to enhance user experience of millions of EV-DO users. Rev. B further improves the excellent performance of EV-DO Rev. A in two phases, the first phase is a software upgrade to offer Mulitcarrier and the second phase is a simple channel card (Hardware) upgrade.
Benefits of Rev. B’s Multicarrier:
- Tripled data rates for all users in the cell by aggregating up to three Rev. A carriers
- Reduced latency and substantially improved user experience
- Can double data capacity for bursty applications such as web browsing
- Cost-effective software upgrade
Benefits of channel card (HW) upgrade:
- 4.7 Mbps uplink peak data rates through 64 QAM
- ~ 65% increase in uplink data capacity leveraging BTS Interference Cancellation
- Support for up to 4 channels on a single card, reducing deployment costs
Qualcomm has already announced a strong line-up of EV-DO Rev. B chipsets supporting all market and device segments.
Presentations
| Rev. B - Enhanced Mobile Broadband for All |
| What is Next for CDMA? |
White Papers
| What's Next for CDMA |
| Winning Strategies for Wireless Data |
Blog Posts
| Are your CDMA/EV-DO questions answered? | Prakash Sangam | May 04, 2010 |
| Rev. B is Commercial! | Prakash Sangam | Jan 27, 2010 |

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