4G LTE

February 2, 2012 Create or Manage Your Profile Webopedia Daily 4G LTE An acronym for Long Term Evolution, LTE is a 4G wireless communications standard developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) that's designed to provide up to 10x the speeds of 3G networks for mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, notebooks and wireless hotspots. 4G technologies are designed to provide IP-based voice, data and multimedia streaming at speeds of at least 100 Mbit per second and up to as fast as 1 GBit per second. 4G LTE is one of several competing 4G standards along with Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) and WiMax (IEEE 802.16).  The leading cellular providers have started to deploy 4G technologies, with Verizon and AT&T launching 4G LTE networks and Sprint utilizing its new 4G WiMax network.  In terms of mobile devices, many newer Android-based smartphones are 4G LTE capable, and both the iPhone 5 and the iPad 3 are expected to have built-in 4G LTE capabilities when released in the second half of 2012. Previous Terms-of-the-Day Term of the Day Google Gadget  Term of the Day on Twitter  Energy Efficiency: Working Toward a Comprehensive Solution There's little doubt that enterprises across the board have expressed a strong commitment to adopting energy efficiency as a guiding force behind future data center developments. Economic reasons alone have forced many organizations to take a hard look at the true cost of their information environments. Read more. Click Here >>    White Paper: Antivirus Software Testing Exposed    Best Practice Tips on Building a Unified Communications Business Case    Video: Customer Lifetime Value for IT    Web Load Testing Best Practices    Video: Don't Let Your AD Forest Burn Around You Job Title: JAVA Developer-UNIX / LINUX, RDBMS, SQL, XML / XSD, .NET Company: WSI Nationwide, Inc. Location: US-NY-New York Webopedia is on Facebook, Let's connect! Webopedia is on Facebook, are you? Let's connect! Join more than 7,000 Webopedia friends on Facebook and interact with the site's editors, post messages on the "Webopedia Wall," plus add comments on term definitions, articles, discuss technology and even suggest topics for inclusion in Webopedia. You are subscribed to an ITBusinessEdge.com newsletter as ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click here. If you wish to be removed from all of our future emails, please click here. To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: ITBusinessEdge a property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.