1.6 LTE-Advanced Schedule
The first set of LTE-Advanced is specified in 3GPP Release 10. That release was completed in June 2011. The target date for Release 11 is December 2012. The typical release cycle in 3GPP has been 1.5 years – except for some smaller releases like Release 9 that was completed in a year. It tends to take another 1.5 years from the specification's completion until the first commercial networks and devices are available. Some small features can be implemented faster while some major features requiring heavy redesign may take more time. We could then expect that the first LTE-Advanced features are commercially available during 2013, and Release 11 features towards end of 2014. The LTE-Advanced schedule is shown in Figure 1.7.
Figure 1.7 3GPP timing of LTE-Advanced.
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