Chinese telecommunications solutions provider, Huawei, said today that it has conducted successful test of LTE self-organizing network (SON) with T-Mobile.

The test, carried on in Innsbruck, Austria, leveraged T-Mobile’s existing eNodeBs, and proposed to verify Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) functionality in Huawei’s SON solution.

“As a pioneer in the development of next-generation mobile network (NGMN), T-Mobile marked the next step in testing future technology with our test network in Innsbruck. We are delighted to see that key innovations like network automation are already part of this project”, commented Rüdiger Köster, Technology Director of T-Mobi            le Austria.

The test displayed a high successful handover rate and proved that the SON solution is capable of automatically establishing and optimizing neighbor relations, in addition to satisfying the requirements of future LTE commercial networks.

Further, the test result established that the LTE SON solution will ensure a high level of network connectivity and optimization of network-wide performance even as network topology changes.

“With the latest SON solution, Huawei is able to deploy an LTE network with the best performance in a cost-effective way,” said, Ying Weimin, President of LTE, Huawei,

“As a leader in providing end-to-end mobile broadband solutions, Huawei is committed to accelerating the commercialization of LTE technology through providing solutions to reduce the cost per bit.”