Alcatel-Lucent unveils revolutionary mobile network architecture

摘要

Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a new and dramatically different architecture for mobile networks that would replace today's plethora of different cell sizes, systems and antennas for different frequencies and technologies with a modular system based on small cube antennae and a base-station on a chip that, it claims, can support all frequencies and technologies and, by using multiple an tennas, all sizes of cell sites. If the technology lives up to the company's claims it will create a revolution in the world's mobilenetworks and, until competitors catch up, give the company a significant market edge. It could also significantly impact the economics of the wireless component of Australia's National Broadband Network.