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Technology Update: Issue no. 1/2009
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Håkan Eriksson
I am pleased to present Technology Update. The idea is to complement the Ericsson Review journal with information we hope will interest you.
One intention is to update you regarding news and developments that have occurred since they were first reported in the journal. Two examples in this Update are the articles about the wind turbine for the Tower Tube and Release 1 of the OIPF specifications. Also, because the Update is a digital product, we can now share new kinds of content and media. This Update contains links to videos about IPTV, LTE and RCS. We also want to use the Update to briefly profile important personalities at Ericsson. In this issue we have posed three short questions to Jonas Sundborg, who was recently named vice president at ETSI.
Apart from the Tower Tube, we have, as part of the Millennium Villages project together with pan-African operator Zain, built a green-powered site in a remote village in northeastern Kenya. With the reliable and affordable mobile communication the site provides, the villagers of Dertu can make calls, access health and education services, and improve their economic future. Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply reliability.
Compared with using diesel generators, we expect to see an 80 percent reduction in energy-related operational costs for the site. Green sites like this one have great potential for solving the power-grid challenge to bringing mobile communication to the poorest of the poor in Africa so they can improve their lives and break out of the poverty cycle.
I feel confident that mainstream technology will always win out. We hear a lot of talk about LTE but are seeing a diminishing WiMAX presence. There is also still a lot of talk about HSPA, which has become the dominating standard – at present more than 300 million mobile subscribers use HSPA and WCDMA. HSPA is fantastic because it delivers mobile broadband here and now. In my opinion, HSPA has become hotter than ever because it keeps evolving to offer higher speeds and greater capacity. Beyond HSPA and in some cases in parallel with it, of course, is LTE.
RCS is all about the consumer experience – lot of effort has been put into defining a specification that emphasizes the consumer experience and interoperability. What does RCS do? It adds new and evolved communication services to the world's largest user community: the four or five billion users in the operator community. Especially noteworthy is that the RCS group has not developed any new standards; instead, it uses existing standards to specify consumer use-cases.
Håkan Eriksson
CTO of Ericsson,
Publisher of Ericsson Review
