A conversation with Puneet Sethi, Director of Product Management, Qualcomm Atheros Inc.
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Qualcomm Technologies was one of the initial proponents of LTE unlicensed, along with vendors such as Ericsson and operators such as Verizon Communications. LTE unlicensed fits well within QTI’s 1000x vision – preparing for a thousandfold increase in mobile data usage. LTE-U complements parallel efforts to increase wireless capacity with small cells, shared access and the multiple flavors of Wi-Fi – residential, community, hot spot, enterprise and carrier.
“LTE-U brings a certain set of unique advantages to operators that have already deployed an LTE network to provide additional capacity by leveraging unlicensed spectrum paired with a licensed anchor, and delivering higher throughput,” Puneet Sethi, director of product management at Qualcomm Atheros said.
This is because “LTE is inherently spectrally more efficient. For the same amount of spectrum, it can deliver 2 times more capacity than Wi-Fi,” Puneet said. “It also works better alongside Wi-Fi … it’s a better neighbor to Wi-Fi than Wi-Fi is to itself. If you have two Wi-Fi nodes right next to each other and you replace one of them with LTE unlicensed, not only would you see the gains from the LTE unlicensed node, but also you will see the improvement on the neighboring Wi-Fi’s performance.”
Read the full interview or watch the video to find out more about Qualcomm Technologies views on how LTE-U can increase spectrum utilization in the 5 GHz unlicensed band.
This conversation is included in the Senza Fili report “LTE Unlicensed and Wi-Fi: Moving Beyond Coexistence”. If you would like to receive a complimentary copy of the report, please click here to download.
