Ericsson and Telstra announced their agreement to develop 5G standards and technologies. They also announced a LTE Broadcast solution deal.

Currently, Telstra, which launched LTE in September 2011, also worked with Ericsson to deliver LTE-Advanced.

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Mike Wright, group managing director Networks, Telstra, said: “For Telstra, 5G will be an evolution of our world leading 4G network.”

As per the agreement, Telstra and Ericsson standards teams will work together to ensure the evolving standards capture the requirements of advanced operators.

Telstra staff will join Ericsson in their technology facilities in Sweden later this year to test and analyze the latest innovations from Ericsson’s researchers.

This apart, Telstra will run a 5G field trial in Australia which will include opportunities for Telstra’s industry partners and customers to experience 5G.

Telstra and Ericsson will run a Proof of Concept for MTC (Machine Type Communications, 3GPP Release 13) with Telstra and selected industry partners.

Telstra to deploy Ericsson’s LTE Broadcast solution

Meanwhile, following a series of trials in 2014, Telstra will deploy Ericsson’s LTE Broadcast solution on their Australian 4GX network.

The LTE Broadcast trials run by Telstra and Ericsson in Australia have shown that three or four channels of video can be efficiently streamed along with complementary data channels. This traffic used 10 percent of the 20 MHz carrier to cover all users. HEVC encoding reduces the bandwidth to deliver quality video by around 30-40 percent compared with existing MPEG-4 AVC coding.

Ericsson and Telstra have established a Center of Excellence for Programmable Networks (CoE) to accelerate the commercial deployment of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) driven use cases and solutions. The trial will conclude in September 2015.

Baburajan K
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