4 G: What's in a name?

Two of the most popular technologies of the next generation are CHICAGO - wireless close to get your official 4G-Moniker by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The ITU, which is an agency within the United Nations is the international standards body, the official wireless technologies 1 g, 2 g, 3 g and 4 g today was festlegt.Diese week at a meeting in China the group a step closer to the technologies make the official standards 4 g LTE or long term evolution and WiMax.

In particular the ITU voted that LTE-advanced technology meets the criteria used to classify as 4 g technology.The ITU also voted that the WirelessMAN advanced part of WiMAX IEEE 802.16 m corresponds also to be scanned.the considers requirements 4 g organization will probably ratify the LTE technology as standard 4 G at its next meeting in November.The WiMax version will be coordinated probably later in the year 2011.

The last 18 months was very confusing for consumers when it comes to understand what 4 g really bedeutet.Der term of marketers to wireless networks next to describe generation who offer higher speeds verwendet.Aber so far, the ITU has not officially called each technology 4 g.

This means that the LTE network that builds Verizon Wireless and will soon start building and the WiMax network have Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are not technically "4 G"

In fact, even after the ITU officially marks LTE and WiMax technologies as 4 g, the flavors will, which currently used are still officially "4 G." not

The ITU requires IP-based 4 G technologies and use orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) .the other main requirement is that the technology must support peak download speeds of 100 Mbit / s.The current flavors of LTE and WiMax are not as fast.

This means that technologies are still a great improvement over older generation 3 g and Datengeschwindigkeiten.Durchschnittliche 3 g services offer from 700 kbit / S to 1.5 Mbit / s.Sprint's WiMax service, built by Clearwire, offers average download speeds to 6 Mbps which company has gesagt.Und Verizon it is claimed that tests show download speeds from 6 Mbit / s to 12 Mbit / s on its commercial LTE network.

Clearwire that WiMax is today used Conference here said the new generations of LTE technology already test using the 4 G world this week, an advanced Verstion LTE has tested the carrier, that offers peak download between 50Mbps and 90Mbps speeds.