Nortel is teaming with The Cockrell School of Engineering and other leading university engineers across the globe to develop new innovations that will help meet exploding demand for 4G mobile broadband applications like video, mobile TV and other multimedia services.
Nortel’s collaborative research with universities supports the new era of communications that is characterized by Hyperconnectivity, where everything that can be connected will be connected-encompassing person-to-person communication, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine.
To increase its competitive advantage and foster new 4G mobile broadband technologies, Nortel has expanded its existing long-standing research partnerships with leading universities like the University of Waterloo in Canada, The University of Texas at Austin in the United States and National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taiwan. Nortel has also formed new partnerships with Mera Networks in Russia and Technische Universitaet Ilmenau in Germany.
Nortel’s investigations with these universities are designed to improve spectral efficiency, and decrease time to market for Nortel’s 4G mobile broadband solutions.
“Through these university partnerships Nortel is sharing knowledge and expertise critical to identifying new disruptive technologies that help improve spectrum efficiencies and cost advantages that our service provider customers need,” said John Hoadley, Leader, 4G Business and Ecosystem Development, Carrier Networks, Nortel. “Nortel is also laying the foundation for a future hyperconnected communication experience, where the number of devices and applications connected to the network will be greater than the number of people using the network.”
As an affiliate sponsor of The University of Texas at Austin’s Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), Nortel has been working with the university on the development of advanced 4G mobile broadband technologies. Advanced antenna technologies will help improve the spectral efficiency, network coverage and capacity of cellular base stations. This empowers service providers to deliver higher speed data applications including mobile video, gaming and other high-speed data transfers. Nortel and the Cockrell School also have plans to work on advanced multi-user MIMO technologies and relay links to extend the coverage of cellular base stations. The goal is to enable a "true broadband" 4G experience everywhere by blanketing an area with small, relay access nodes, rather than costly base stations, to ensure high-speed, high-bandwidth capabilities.
