CDMA2000® and/or cdma2000® 1EV-DO Revision C: Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB)
"Due to its substantial performance advantage, evolutionary nature, spectrum flexibility, existing supplier base and time-to-market advantage, the technology is expected to leapfrog other wireless broadband technologies to become the leading standard adopted for next generation mobile telecommunications." So sayeth the CDG.
"The first iteration of this vision will be known commercially as Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB). Soon, people will be sending data through the air at speeds of up to 280 Mbps in a mobile environment." So sayeth Perry LaForge.
There is a new (October) 3GPP2 whitepaper titled Evolution of 3GPP2 Networks, here ...
3gpp2.org
CDG (in the PR clipped below) says it "Sets 10-Year CDMA2000® Evolution Path" but actually the 3GPP2 paper never mentions CDMA2000® ... it only mentions cdma2000® "the trademark for the technical nomenclature for certain specifications and standards of the Organizational Partners (OPs) of 3GPP2. Geographically (and as of the date of publication), cdma2000® is a registered trademark of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA-USA) in the United States." Unlike the 3GPP's "UTRA-UTRAN Long Term Evolution (LTE)" ...
3gpp.org
... UMB still retains a CDMA component on the reverse link -- the link from a mobile subscriber to a base station -- along with TDM, OFDMA and LS-OFDMA, and OFDMA on the forward link, so CDMA2000® and/or cdma2000® remain appropriate trademarks.
The original August UMB PR from CDG and 3GPP2 and subsequent CDG PR from Deember is below ...
>> CDMA Industry Is Ready To Meet Future Market Needs Head On
CDG and 3GPP2 Collaborate to be the First to Deliver Advanced Ultra Mobile Broadband Technology
CDG News Bureau (Bock Communications)
Third Generation Partnership Project 2 3GPP2 (TIA)
Costa Mesa, CA
August 15, 2006
3gpp2.org
–The CDMA Development Group (CDG) and the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) today announced that their collaboration has achieved several key milestones towards defining and developing a well planned and technically sound evolution of its CDMA2000® technology specifications.
A System Requirements Document (SRD) for the next air interface evolution of CDMA2000 was approved by 3GPP2 in May 2006. These requirements were developed in close cooperation with CDG (Market Representation Partner to 3GPP2) operator member companies and other key industry players to ensure that future market needs are fully addressed by the resulting specifications.
According to the SRD, using scalable bandwidths up to 20 MHz, the forward link and reverse link peak data rates should be capable of up to 500 Mbps and 150 Mbps in a stationary indoor environment, and up to 100 Mbps and 50 Mbps in a mobile environment, respectively.
The SRD has also set the requirements for improved voice quality and capacity, cell edge coverage, flexible spectrum allocations, inter-technology handoffs, and reduced system latency for VoIP and advanced multimedia packet services. A very important goal in developing these specifications will be to reduce an operator’s CAPEX and OPEX by incorporating new and advanced wireless technologies into the industry’s leading-edge 3GPP2 system architecture.
Significant progress towards developing a more advanced air interface for the next evolution of the CDMA2000 standard has also been made. At the 3GPP2 meeting in Montreal this month, the working group that was chartered by Technical Specification Group C (TSG-C) reached an agreement on defining a common framework for Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) operations based on the evaluation and harmonization of various air interface proposals that were submitted to the 3GPP2. This common framework agreement was based upon a consolidated framework proposal submitted by China Unicom, Huawei Technologies, KDDI, LG Electronics, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel, QUALCOMM Incorporated, RITT, Samsung Electronics, and ZTE Corporation.
The framework employs Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) on the forward link and supports several advanced antenna techniques including Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA). The reverse link employs quasi-orthogonal transmissions based on OFDMA, together with non-orthogonal user multiplexing with layered superposed OFDMA (LS-OFDMA). The reverse link also supports Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) transmissions for control and for low-rate, low-latency traffic. 3GPP2 TSG-C has already begun the process to further refine and enhance this framework. Detailed technical specifications are expected to be completed by early in the second quarter of 2007.
Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG commented, “The rapid manner in which the 3GPP2 has been able to come to an agreement on the requirements and framework for the newly developed 'ultra mobile broadband' specifications demonstrates the organizations’ cooperative nature and ability to respond quickly to the demands of the marketplace with the latest in technology.”
“Mobile operators worldwide have deployed 3G mobile networks serving well over 250 million subscribers based on 3GPP2 specifications,” said Dr. Y.K. Kim, chair of the 3GPP2 Steering Committee. “These operators are now looking to 3GPP2 for the next major advancement in mobile communication technology so they can address the market needs of their users.”
The 3GPP2 Steering Committee‘s Advance Technology Evolution Ad Hoc committee has completed a Technology Evolution Framework (TEF) which is in the final stages of approval. The TEF outlines the evolution strategy for CDMA2000 beyond the 2010 timeframe and deals with end-to-end system capabilities. TEF is based on projected advances in multiple wireless and networking technologies over the next 10 years. These advances include the evolution of mobile devices, improvements in the radio air interface to carry native IP packets at ever increasing data speeds, and enabling full-mobility voice and data communications across heterogeneous and constantly changing radio access network types. ... <snip> ###
>> Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) Selected To Describe Next Major Advancement in Mobile Communications
CDG Selects Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) as the brand name for CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision C
CDG
Hong Kong
December 5, 2006
cdg.org
The CDMA Development Group (CDG)announced today that they have selected "Ultra Mobile Broadband" as the brand name to describe the advanced technologies and services that will be supported by the CDMA2000® 1xEV-DO Revision C (Rev. C) standard. The new standard is expected to be published early in the second quarter of 2007 and become commercially available on a global basis in early 2009.
With the ability to support peak download speeds as high as 280 Mbps in a mobile environment, Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) represents a major break-through in the delivery of next generation mobile broadband services. The technology will deliver packets of data at speeds that are orders of magnitude higher than what is currently available, and will do so within the entire cell edge coverage area.
UMB is an evolutionary upgrade within the family of CDMA2000 standards that can be deployed in existing or new spectrum allocations using scalable bandwidths up to 20 MHz. UMB enhances the performance and capabilities of CDMA2000 by combining the best aspects of the following leading air interface techniques; CDMA, TDM, OFDM, and OFDMA. UMB also incorporates Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) advanced antenna techniques to provide even greater capacity, coverage, and quality in deployments with multiple antennas. The sophisticated UMB control mechanisms use the above techniques to optimize the transmission of variable length packets for each application based upon the end-to-end system capabilities and the quality of service (QoS) requirements of each application and user. To support ubiquitous and universal access, UMB supports inter-technology hand-offs and seamless operation with existing CDMA2000 1X and 1xEV-DO systems. Integrating all of these advanced radio access techniques into a single global standard represents a major technological break-through within the mobile communications industry.
The IP-based, high-performance, ultra mobile broadband technology will be capable of ubiquitously and economically supporting a large variety of services that require extremely low latencies, low jitter and increased spectral efficiencies. As a result, the technology will be able to universally address a large cross-section of advanced mobile broadband services by delivering low rate, low latency, voice traffic at one end of the spectrum, just as efficiently as ultra-high-speed, latency insensitive, broadband data traffic at the other.
Due to its substantial performance advantage, evolutionary nature, spectrum flexibility, existing supplier base and time-to-market advantage, the technology is expected to leapfrog other wireless broadband technologies to become the leading standard adopted for next generation mobile telecommunications. ###
>> 3GPP2 Publishes Technology Evolution Framework; Sets 10-Year CDMA2000® Evolution Path
CDG
Arlington, VA
December 11, 2006
On November 17, the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) and the CDMA Development Group (CDG) jointly announced the publication of a Technology Evolution Framework(TEF) white paper to define the future evolution path of CDMA2000®. ...
This document, available for download on the 3GPP2 website ...
3gpp2.org
... serves as an industry roadmap for the next major technological breakthroughs expected in mobile communications and its interoperation with other wireless networks (e.g., Wi-Fi), cable networks, and wireline networks over the next 10 years.
With advances in mobile device evolution, the ability to carry native IP packets over the radio air interface at data speeds well above 200 Mbps, and device mobility across constantly changing access network technologies, the core network evolution will continue to provide a solid framework for control, signaling, quality of service (QoS), security, and management for voice, data, and multimedia services.
3GPP2 is well on its way towards implementing the evolutionary road map defined by this TEF. A System Requirement Document (SRD) for developing the next generation air interface was completed in August, and its development is proceeding at a fairly fast pace. A corresponding SRD for defining the core network is currently under development to fully utilize the new capabilities of this advanced air interface.
3GPP2’s Technical Specification Groups are already evaluating different techniques to evolve existing capabilities to further increase spectral efficiencies, data throughput, service delivery and other enhancements. Over the next few years, the primary goal is to enable significantly faster IP data transfers, better QoS, heterogeneous and transparent mobility, and a solid structure for the support of future services.
“Given the rapid migration from circuit-switched networks to high-speed packet-switched networks, and the need to provide seamless delivery of services across multiple radio technologies, there are a number of enhancements the CDMA2000® family of networks will be making in the very near future,” said Dr. Y.K. Kim, 3GPP2 Steering Committee Chair. “The hundreds of millions of subscribers using 3G mobile services that are based on 3GPP2 network specifications depend on us to improve the radio interface, enable the convergence of services across multiple core networks, and enhance other ancillary technologies to improve the value proposition and customer experience. This fiduciary duty of 3GPP2 will keep our technology viable in the long term.”
3GPP2 aims to realize the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) vision for evolved mobile broadband services by being the first to define the detailed, attainable, and evolutionary end-to-end system requirements and performance parameters that are required in the near-term.
According to Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG, “The first iteration of this vision will be known commercially as Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB). Soon, people will be sending data through the air at speeds of up to 280 Mbps in a mobile environment.” ###
>> About CDMA: CDMA2000 is the most widely deployed 3G technology, with 162 operators in 72 countries, including 38 CDMA2000 1x-EV-DO systems, serving more than 250 million subscribers. Counting 2G cdmaOne™ subscribers, there are more than 300 million CDMA users worldwide. CDMA2000 has become the technology of choice for cdmaOne, TDMA, analog and greenfield operators, and is deployed in the 450, 800, 1700, 1900 and 2100 MHz bands. Nearly 1,250 CDMA2000 devices from more than 80 suppliers have been introduced to the market, including 280 1xEV-DO devices.
About 3GPP2: The Third Generation Partnership Project 2 is a collaborative Third Generation (3G) telecommunications specification-setting project comprising North American and Asian interests. The five Organizational Partners of the Third Generation Partnership Project 2, which are nationally recognized Standards Development Organizations, are: Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) – Japan, China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) – China, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) – USA, Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) – Korea, and Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) – Japan. The 3GPP2 web site is at 3gpp2.org
About CDG: The CDMA Development Group is a trade association formed to foster the worldwide development, implementation and use of CDMA technologies. The more than 130 member companies of the CDG include many of the world’s largest wireless carriers and equipment manufacturers. The primary activities of the CDG include development of CDMA features and services, public relations, education and seminars, regulatory affairs and international support. Currently, there are more than 500 individuals working within various CDG subcommittees on CDMA-related matters. The CDG web site is at cdg.org ###
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