Nokia Siemens Networks Completes LTE Handover Tests

­Nokia Siemens Networks says that it recently conducted the world's first LTE handover test using a commercially available base station and fully standards compliant software. The test verifies that the LTE handover procedure is handled correctly by both Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi Multiradio base station and an LTE test terminal.

The LTE handover test was the first to be fully compliant with 3GPP's (the relevant LTE standards body) March 2009 baseline LTE standard. In this initial test, the handover was made between LTE cells of Nokia Siemens Networks' Flexi Multiradio base station.

"Our focus at Nokia Siemens Networks is on commercial hardware and software, not pre-commercial intermediate solutions," said Marc Rouanne, head of Nokia Siemens Networks' Radio Access business unit. "We've already shipped LTE-capable Flexi Base Station hardware to over 100 customers and this LTE handover on our standards compliant software is another step on the road to the commercial deployment of LTE."

The test builds on the earlier verification of handover support in the company's Evolved Packet Core solution for LTE core networks including the Flexi NG and Flexi NS products.

Posted to the site on 26th October 2009