News and comments about the Italian telecommunications market
Alcatel-Lucent signed a cooperation agreement with Telecom Italia to engage in a new technology development program, including a trial of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband technology.
The field trial will also focus on the usage of small cell solutions (such as pico cells) to address “hot spot” and indoor coverage applications, and their related throughput and latency performance. Continue reading ‘Alcatel-Lucent and Telecom Italia to trial LTE technologies’
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Aria as prime supplier for building and maintaining a nation-wide wireless broadband network based on WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) technology.
Earlier this year, Aria won the auction of the WiMAX 3.5 GHz radio frequencies in all Italian regions.
Continue reading ‘Alcatel-Lucent supplies Italy’s first nationwide commercial WiMAX Rev-e network’
A live demo of the NGN2 project announced by Telecom Italia has been unveiled at the C5 World Forum in Milan. The demo illustrates the bandwidth potential of fibre-based network access infrastructure, capable of speed up to 50 Mbit/s over a FTTB-VDSL2 architecture.
