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The Mother of all Network Benchmark Tests. Volume 1: Network and Technology Performance
Signals Research Group, LLC, Sep 2011, Pages: 155
Over the last several months Signals Research Group has been conducting a network/technology benchmark study of all of the leading next-generation wireless technologies, as exemplified by operator deployments in North America. 'Signals Ahead: The Mother of all Network Benchmark Tests ' is a series of three reports that will be publishing over the next couple of months:
Volume 1 (published in September 2011)
Network and Technology Performance
Volume 2 (published in October 2011)
Quantifying the User Experience
Volume 3 (to be published in November 2011)
Detailed Performance Analysis
The three reports 'Signals Ahead: The Mother of all Network Benchmark Tests ' are included with any paid corporate subscription to Signals Ahead, or can be purchased separately.
ABOUT VOLUME 1
Volume 1 is critical for operators around the globe who are currently making strategic decisions regarding their network technology evolution.
Next-generation network technologies are not created equal. On paper, there exist meaningful performance differences, some of which are due to channel bandwidth considerations, but also to the underlying technology itself. Further, operator deployment philosophies and the maturity of the solutions can have an over-arching impact on the results.
As operators around the globe struggle to make crucial strategic decisions regarding their network technology evolution, it is imperative that they fully understand and appreciate the potential of these technologies as well as their limitations. While this report is intended to address the needs of operators worldwide by focusing on the performance of the technologies, as a secondary feature it also provides valuable insight into the performance of each major network deployment in the United States. Everyone claims that they have the best network, but only one operator can be right.
Topics Covered:
Specific topics addressed in Volume 1 include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Application and/or Physical Layer Throughput
- Mean, median and CDF plots
- Geo plots of throughput for all test scenarios using Google Earth
- Technology comparisons, including
- DC-HSDPA versus LTE (2x10MHz) with 2x2 MIMO
- LTE (2x20MHz) versus LTE (2x10MHz)
- Mobile WiMAX versus HSPA+, LTE and DC-HSDPA
- DC-HSDPA versus HSPA+
- EV-DO versus LTE, HSPA+, etc
- Single User Spectral Efficiency Results
- Throughput normalized for channel bandwidth and duplex scheme
- Does LTE with MIMO really outperform narrow bandwidth solutions
- LTE network performance with multiple devices
- DC-HSDPA and HSPA+ devices in the same 10MHz channel allocations
- Side-by-Side operator network coverage maps for drive routes used in each market
- Downlink throughput
- Uplink throughput
- Network Latency
- Variance based on time of day and network loading
- LTE network deployment philosophies (LTE cell site density relative to the legacy network) and their implications for coverage and capacity
- AT&T HSPA+ versus AT&T LTE
- Verizon Wireless EV-DO versus Verizon Wireless LTE
- AT&T LTE versus Verizon Wireless LTE
- Mobile WiMAX (2500MHz) versus LTE (700MHz)
SIGNALS AHEAD SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
Signals Ahead is a research-focused product that is published on a periodic basis. Its clientele include all facets of the wireless ecosystem, including some of the largest mobile operators, the top handset suppliers, the major infrastructure vendors, subsystem suppliers, semiconductor companies and financial institutions, including Wall Street, Private Equity and Venture Capitalists, spread across five continents.
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