Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer, ZTE Corp launched a new LTE and EV-DO Rev B Dual-Mode System in Japan at the EXPO COMM Wireless Japan 2009 exhibition.

In line with its corporate theme, “Talking to the Future,” the company is also showcasing other series of product lines and solutions at the exhibition.

“ZTE’s SDR platform-based EV-DO Rev.B System can smoothly evolve to LTE by simply adding LTE baseband board and upgrading software. Through software advancement, ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.A can evolve to EV-DO Rev.B network which is backward compatible with EV-DO Rev.A users’ access,” said a company statement.

At the exhibition, the company will demonstrate Phase I technology, the EV-DO Rev.B’s 3-carrier bundling to realize 9.3 Mbps download rate. The firm said that its flexible multi-carrier bundling technology would enable bundling of 15 carriers in Phase II with a download rate of 73.5 Mbps and upload rate of 27 Mbps.