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By Tom Deitrich
Smaller, faster and more portable are persistent trends in the digital world. The computing power that once required a roomsized machine can now be found in laptops and handheld devices, and you can put stacks of CDs in your pocket in the form of a portable media player. The same trends affect the cellular market, and pose some interesting engineering challenges. Cellular long term evolution (LTE) is the next step forward in cellular 3G services. With an expected market rollout in the 2009 time frame, LTE technology is a based on a 3GPP standard that provides for a downlink speed of up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps) and an uplink speed of up to 50 Mbps. With multiple antennas, speeds can reach more than 320 Mbps on the downlink. Fixed wireless and wired standards are already approaching or achieving 100 Mbps or faster, and LTE is a way for cellular communications to operate at that high data rate.