Telepedia.ro reports Alcatel-Lucent’s innovative “Converged RAN” offerings support multiple technology standards in a common base station platform and the delivery of a wide variety of new wireless broadband services while simultaneously reducing power consumption and lowering operating costs.
This Converged RAN uses software defined radio (SDR) technology to enable CDMA service providers to deploy one technology today and then upgrade smoothly to LTE in the future, or even introduce both technologies in the same existing base station simultaneously.
