While the proliferation of WLAN deployment is prevalent the moving forward with LTE offers several significant advantages for the data and voice requirement of the mobility model in healthcare.
- Performance and Capacity – One of the requirements of LTE is to provide downlink peak rates of at least 100Mbits/s. The technology allows for speeds over 200Mbits/sec. Furthermore, RAD (Radio Access Network), round-trip times shall be less than 10ms. In effect, this means that LTE already meets 4 G requirements.
- Simplicity – LTE supporsts flexible carrier bandwidths, from below 5MHz up to 20MHz. LTE also supports both FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) and TDD (Time Division Duplex). Ten paired and four unpaired spectrum bands have so far been indentified by 3GPP for LTE. LTE radio network products will have a number of features that simplify the building management of next generation networks. These features include plug and ply, self configuration and self optimization. LTE will be deployed in parallel with simplified IP based core and transport networks that are easier to build, maintain, and introduce services on.
