Doug Moeller - Autonet Mobile CTO
Musings and Ruminations
Autonet Mobile and LTE
At this years CES we performed some really cool demonstrations of our product running over the LTE network. And it was fast!! Even with the congested networks of Las Vegas during CES we were getting speeds greater then 15Mbps! But, the obvious next question is when are we going to stat selling that and unfortunately I don't have a really good answer for that. The problem is that while the LTE network was fast, the handoff between LTE and the regular 3G networks does not work well enough. If you never left LTE coverage you'd be very happy, but the reality is that LTE doesn't have good enough coverage yet for that to be the case for hardly anybody. Cars are going to be moving between 4G and 3G networks a lot and that handoff has to be perfect. We've got that handled on the IP side with our TRU technology, but there is an issue with the Radio chip that makes it not work so well on the RF side. The Radio chip vendor has a fix for this and is going to have new chips available for testing in a couple of months. We'll then get it integrated with our product and get all the FCC and carrier certifications taken care of, so I would expect that we'll have a product ready third quarter this year. I wish we could do it sooner, but you wouldn't be happy with the performance. I know other folks have released LTE products, but you'll note that no one has released one designed for in motion connectivity yet. We'll be the first and we'll be the best. :-)
Posted at 04:50PM Jan 25, 2012 by dmoeller in Doug Moeller |
