Europe
UK : Tim Lunn from PA Consulting Group - the leading international
management, systems and technology consultancy - will outline the
reasons why the evolution of the UMTS wireless standard is following
three important paths (MIMO, OFDM and IP networking) in a paper to
be given at 16.40pm on Wednesday 7 December 2005 at IIR's HSDPA Implementation
Strategies Conference in Amsterdam.
The paper will examine
the ways in which MIMO and OFDM can offer efficient use of greater
spectrum allocations and deliver higher data rates to mobile users.
It also looks at the dramatic operating cost savings that can be achieved
through the use of collapsed network architectures.
It will be of particular
interest to mobile operators and infrastructure vendors who need to
understand the features and benefits of these future upgrades to the
current wireless standards.
Dr. Tim Lunn is a Managing
Consultant in PA Consulting Group's Wireless Technology Practice,
where he leads the signal processing team working on the development
of basestations for 3G mobile systems.
Through its wireless technology
expertise PA Consulting Group is the leading supplier of end -to -end
solutions for the wireless industry. PA's technology-led consultancy
solutions for 3G operators range from strategy development and business
planning through to services creation, network design and roll-out
management. PA supports vendors directly through the provision of
contact design of infrastructure and handset products, marketing and
bidding support and infrastructure element design.
IIR's HSDPA Implementation
Strategies, Hilton Amsterdam 5-8 December 2005 http://www.iir-events.com/IIR-conf/Telecoms/EventView.aspx?EventID=139
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