Monday, Alcatel-Lucent introduced lightRadio, a new architecture for cellular material that promises to reduce the energy costs, improve bandwidth capacity and simplify the process of construction over a cellular network. Currently, each cell phone Tower includes a set of large antennas on top of the tower and a trailer at the base of the tower which includes all the processing power to handle traffic inbound and outbound calling cell and data. These towers are expensive to build, consume a large amount of energy and are expensive to maintain.
With lightRadio, equipment to handle inbound and outbound traffic cell is broken into individual components, separated from the individual towers and distributed across the network. These centralized hubs to connect large antennas local number and form the backbone of the cellular network.
Antennas will also be compacted in multi frequency devices standard multi (2 G, 3 G, LTE) in the shape of cube which can be easily fitted on existing structures. All these antennas will require is a source of food and a broadband connection to operate. Alcatel-Lucent, these new tours will reduce the energy consumption of mobile networks by 50% and double the speed.
While it is impressive, that technology is not ready for full deployment, Mobile, including Orange, and China Mobile telephony operators implement pieces, starting with the antenna system of cube. The complete system will be available by 2013. Nitty, gritty, for details see the press release on the second page or website lightRadio dedicated to Alcatel-Lucent.
