White Paper: Understanding Carrier Aggregation

One of the biggest motivations for developing Carrier Aggregation is to achieve a better resource utilization and spectrum efficiency by joining resource allocation and load balancing across the carriers. The overall goal of using Carrier Aggregation is to provide enhanced and consistent user experience across the cell by maximizing the peak data rate and throughput, improving mobility, providing a better and more consistent QoS to users, and enabling interference management with intelligent allocations of resources. Carrier Aggregation also provides a cost effective solution to operators in order to increase their current network throughput and capacity through minor software upgrade to their sites already using several frequencies. This white paper is a guide to understanding the different types of Carrier Aggregation, and what is needed for its implementation and testing. Download the full paper for more information.