Tag Archives: SAE

Looking Back and Looking Forward

This article reviews some upcoming themes and the passed year’s themes. Looking Forward: MWC 2010 and some themes for the coming decade What will probably be the main themes of MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2010? Unfortunately, LTE (Long Term Evolution) will be a key focus of the show.  I’ve discussed previously why most operators do […]

An Independent Review of SAE (System Architecture Evolution, aka 4G Core or Evolved Packet System (EPS)): A view on the emerging core network

This article follows on from a previous article that reviewed LTE (Long Term Evolution, also know as 4G).  Several people asked why I had not included a fuller discussion on the 4G core in that article.  It is because LTE is an access technology; my focus of the article was on the access where there […]

An Independent Review of LTE (Long Term Evolution, aka 4G): Cutting through the marketing hype

LTE (Long Term Evolution, also known as 4G) is entering the hype-cycle, and being rapidly pushed up to the ‘peak of inflated expectations’, just like IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), PTT (Push To Talk), FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence), and far too many other technologies to name here.  So to cut through the hype and hopefully present […]