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LTE functionality frozen as part of Release 8

January 28, 2010 by admin  
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LTE Rel8 LTE functionality frozen as part of Release 8According to 3GPP website: 3GPP has approved the functional freeze of LTE as part of Release 8.

There is significant commitment from operators to deploy this technology, and this will allow them to realize their early .


But the 3GPP decided to give more time to the work on SAE -– a.k.a. evolved packet core (EPC) –- because the specs weren’t complete enough. The standards body has drawn up a list of “” that will have until March 2009 to be finalized in order to be included in Release 8.

“There are a number of pieces of work which we thought should be included but weren’t quite ready,” says Scrase. “[There are] quite a number of parts for , the work [on which] still lags behind LTE work. We have a high level of that the items will be completed by March, otherwise we wouldn’t have included them on the list.”

Scrase says that it is common to extend deadlines in this way and that the 3GPP allowed a similar extension for Release 7.

The about LTE and took place at a 3GPP meeting in last week, where the group definitively agreed on what is contained in Release 8 and what’s not, according to Scrase. The group also agreed on what should be included in Release 9, which is scheduled to be frozen in December 2009.

And there is more to Release 8 than LTE and . For example, some of the specifications for — or “ B” in 3GPP terminology — are included in the release.

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LTE functionality frozen as part of Release 8

February 9, 2009 by admin  
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According to 3GPP website: 3GPP has approved the functional freeze of LTE as part of Release 8.

There is significant commitment from operators to deploy this technology, and this will allow them to realize their early .

But the 3GPP decided to give more time to the work on -– a.k.a. evolved packet core (EPC) –- because the specs weren’t complete enough. The standards body has drawn up a list of “” that will have until March 2009 to be finalized in order to be included in Release 8.

“There are a number of pieces of work which we thought should be included but weren’t quite ready,” says Scrase. “[There are] quite a number of parts for , the work [on which] still lags behind LTE work. We have a high level of that the items will be completed by March, otherwise we wouldn’t have included them on the list.”

Scrase says that it is common to extend deadlines in this way and that the 3GPP allowed a similar extension for Release 7.

The about LTE and took place at a 3GPP meeting in last week, where the group definitively agreed on what is contained in Release 8 and what’s not, according to Scrase. The group also agreed on what should be included in Release 9, which is scheduled to be frozen in December 2009.

And there is more to Release 8 than LTE and . For example, some of the specifications for — or “ B” in 3GPP terminology — are included in the release.

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