Aeroflex has announced that the TM500 LTE Test Mobile now supports carrier aggregation for LTE-Advanced. This feature allows multiple carriers comprising either contiguous or non-contiguous spectrum to be added together, which is said to allow wider channel bandwidths and faster data rates to be achieved.
The test mobile now supports all of the carrier aggregation scenarios specified in 3GPP Release 10 and is also ready for all those currently proposed for Release 11. The company has been working with network infrastructure vendors to enable them to develop and demonstrate a LTE data ‘pipe’ that combines the capacity of different frequency bands while maximising the benefits of the propagation capability in the lower frequency band.