Eutelsat OneWeb, MediaTek conduct first 5G-Advanced NTN tech trial over LEO satellites
NEW DELHI: Satellite communications (satcom) firm Eutelsat OneWeb, along with Taiwanese fabless chip company MediaTek, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on Tuesday said they have successfully conducted the first trial of 5G-Advanced Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) technology, compliant with 3GPP specifications.
The trial used OneWeb satellites, communicating with the MediaTek NR NTN chipset, and ITRI’s NR-NTN next-generation Node B (gNB), implementing 3GPP Release 19 specifications including Ku-band, a 50MHz channel bandwidth, and conditional handover (CHO).
