Nortel and LG testing 4G LTE handover at highway speeds

Sure, 100Mbps worth of downstream data is something we’d all like to see in the near future. Imagine cruising the wireless airwaves at speeds faster than we see with wireline broadband services. Yup, the 4G LTE networks of the future are most definitely going to be fun.

Getting 100Mbps data speeds from a particular cellular tower is easy enough. But, what happens when you’re cruising along at highway speeds and jumping from cell site to cell site? That’s exactly the question that Nortel and LG sought to answer with their latest LTE 4G network test. The two companies tested the  3GPP Release 8 Standard with an early LTE mobile phone hopping across multiple cellular sites.

The test is a milestone for 4G LTE networks around the world. The two companies successfully handed over the LTE cellular signal between multiple cell towers, showing to the world that LTE is slowly but surely marching towards a viable commercial release in the next few years.

After all, what good is all that wireless data if you can’t get at it in a moving car?

[Via: MobileCrunch]