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    LTE-A Component Carriers sizing and LTE Band Blocks

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    Ah ok, that makes more sense now. The reason I am asking about these questions is so I can figure out how many component carriers exist in my city. Then I can see how much more potential there is for increased speeds in areas once 4CA becomes available in UE and carriers.

     

    So based upon my example above since it would be intraband non-contiguous it would be 2 CC.

     

    Thank you for explaining things.

    LTE-A Component Carriers sizing and LTE Band Blocks

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    Every on air LTE carrier is considered a component carrier if they're aggregated. It does not matter what spectrum it uses or how much bandwidth it encompasses. 

     

     

    I don't understand what your response is really answering. That seems like a vague statement.

     

    Define what you mean when you say "LTE carrier"?

     

    Basically the whole point of my post was to help understand the definition of LTE component carrier since in all my searching online I couldn't find out a definition of that in relation to LTE Band Blocks.

    LTE-A Component Carriers sizing and LTE Band Blocks

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    LTE Advanced (LTE-A) is able to provide faster speeds by using carrier aggregation which combines different LTE Component Carriers (CC). This article gives the basics for how it works.

     
     
    As you can see by this image in the article there can be different combinations of contiguous or non-contiguous CCs.
     
     
    What I am trying to better understand how is the component carrier size is determined inside a LTE band if a carrier is licensed for some contiguous and non-contiguous blocks within a band. It is very common in a market for a carrier to have different Blocks of an LTE band.
     
    For example, lets assume in a city a carrier is licensed for AWS3 Blocks G, H and J. Using the chart below you can see that Blocks G & H are contiguous spectrum and there is a gap between Block H and J.
     
     
    So for carrier aggregation would Blocks G & H be considered 1 component carrier (CC) and Block J would be 1 CC?
     
    Or would Blocks G, H, and J be considered 1 CC even though there is a gap between H & J?

     

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