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Starent Networks Corp. has helped Verizon Wireless finish a test of fourth-generation wireless data network in Boston, based on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, according to official at New Jersey-based Verizon.
Starent, a maker of mobile networking infrastructure equipment based in Tewksbury, supplied the network equipment for the Boston trial, along with a similar trial in Seattle. Verizon also tapped Nokia Siemens Networks for LTE equipment in the test.
According to Verizon officials, Boston now has 10 LTE 4G cell sites running. The Verizon LTE network works on the 700 MHz spectrum and has been tested using Alcatel-Lucent base station/radio access network equipment in Boston and Ericsson gear in Seattle. Phones used in the trials came from LG and Samsung, and officials say devices from ST-Ericsson, Motorola and Qualcomm will be tested in the next phase.
Verizon Wireless says it plans to open its LTE 4G network to the general public in up to 30 markets in 2010, with a goal of full nationwide coverage in 2013.
In January, Starent reported it had landed a new customer in Motorola Inc., which will use Starent’s multimedia core networking gear in the buildout of its own LTE/SAE (System Architecture Evolution) product offerings.
Starent reported a profit of $60.5 million for 2008, on revenue of $254 million.
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