Introducing 2GIGA
LG U+ said that it will commercialize “GIGA multi pass,” which provides up to 1.17 Gbps of speed, by combining LTE and Wi-Fi. The company also plans to double the speed this year, so that it will transmit data with a speed of over 2Gbps, the company said on June 21.
Theoretically, a 2 Gbps connection would allow users to download an HD movie, about 1.4 GB of data, in six seconds, or a UHD movie, about 18 Gb of data, in one minute and 12 seconds, the company said.
In the case of sound sources (about 5 Mb), about 50 songs can be downloaded in one second, the company said.
The company will complete testing of “downlink 256 qam technology,” which increases the LTE speed by 30 percent, this month. And it plans to commercialize it by the third quarter, the company said. When this technology is applied to the 3-band CA service, the download speed can be increased up to 390Mbps, the company said.
The company also plans to include 4×4 MIMO technology in the Wi-Fi band, so to increase GIGA Wi-Fi service’s speed. The 4×4 MIMO technology increases the number of antennas transmitting and receiving one Wi-Fi signal, so the GIGA Wi-Fi AP can transmit data to several users. This can double the GIGA Wi-Fi speed to a theoretical maximum of 866 Mbps, the company said.
The company developed large capacity IP packet exchange equipment in addition to having completed testing of a virtualized Radio Access Network, a BS virtualization technology, as a technology which enables dealing with twice the data traffic is applied on the communications network, it said.
vRAN, described as a prior 5G technology, flexibly increases base stations’ traffic management capacity, which can freely control the capacity for traffic in accordance with the situation by connecting the base station and the Internet network in virtualization.
A 4 Tb L3 switch, a exchanger for massive IP packet that LG U+ co-developed with UBIQUOSS, can deliver about 3,000 HD movies simultaneously per second when it is used on a network.