LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation doubles 4G data speeds

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset rst to support LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation Conventional LTE Network: Single channel approach to data transfer

> 175 LTE networks launched in 70 countries as of May 2013*

Up to 75 Mbps

70
LTE

10 MH Z

Radio Channel #1 (Up to 75 Mbps) Second LTE radio channel is idle when device receives on the other channel

10 MH Z

Conventional LTE Network

10 MH Z

> 307 dual band (1.8/2.6 GHz) and 176 tri-band (1.8/2.6/0.8 GHz) LTE devices announced* > LTE CAT4 Networks require 20 MHz spectrum to achieve 150 Mbps peak data rates

Conventional LTE Device

75 0
MBPS

LTE device receives only on one radio channel with maximum data speed limited by radio channel bandwidth

150

LTE Advanced Network: Carrier Aggregation e ectively doubles data rates

10 MH Z

Radio Channel #1 (Up to 75 Mbps) Radio Channel #2 (Up to 75 Mbps)

> For operators without 20 MHz contiguous spectrum, MAX LTE Advanced carrier CAT4 aggregation enables maximum CAT4 data rates

Aggregated Data Pipe (Up to 150 Mbps)

20 MHZ

LTE Advanced Network

10 MH Z

2x Faster
Snapdragon 800 Advanced Device

Up to 150 Mbps

LTE Advanced device simultaneously receives on two radio channels which increases user data rates and reduces latency (faster network response time)

> Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and Qualcomm Gobi 9x25 modem rst to support LTE Advanced carrier aggregation
* Source: GSA, May 2013

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