Amsterdam, Netherlands - 25, 2013 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., market leader in LTE solutions, announced today that its Smart SON has been awarded Best LTE RAN Product at the LTE Awards 2013 held at the LTE World Summit 2013. The award recognizes the capability of Smart SON, an element of Samsung Smart LTE Networks™, to deliver exceptional network performance.
With data-centric networks increasingly in demand, where a high Quality of Service (QoS) for every user is imperative, operators are searching for a solution that helps ease the burden of radio optimization, thereby ensuring healthy network operation.
Samsung’s Smart SON delivers this by using real-time radio resource information available from Samsung’s innovative Smart Scheduler™ and providing near real-time network optimization capabilities to LTE networks. The solution supports all RAN configurations including macro cells, small cells and even Heterogeneous Networks.
With continuous monitoring of site health and radio coverage, Smart SON shows powerful performance in Network Optimization and Network Healing, thus delivering higher QoS to the end-users.
"Samsung is at the forefront of network innovation with its Smart LTE Networks™. Smart SON takes LTE performance to the next level through near real-time optimization capabilities helping to reduce TCO and deliver a better end-user experience," said Youngky Kim, Executive Vice President and Head of the Networks Business at Samsung Electronics. "Operators are looking for innovative solutions to enhance content delivery in order to fully utilize the potential of LTE, so we will continue to develop and evolve our leading solutions to meet that need."
Samsung Smart LTE NetworksTM is the result of continued innovation towards telecommunications and IT convergence, representing the next stage in LTE technology. Samsung's innovations have contributed to the increased efficiency of the network, delivering enhanced mobile broadband capability to support the connectivity requirements of mobile users across the world.
Samsung’s distinguished LTE solution is backed by key accomplishments over 30 years of experience and leadership in developing and commercializing world’s first telecom technologies. Based on its wide range of field-experience in OFDMA technologies, Samsung has successfully partnered with dozens of mobile service providers, helping them to implement the most advanced LTE solutions.