World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call"

gadgetopia writes "Although data 'calls' on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the world where such a call has been made on a commercial, deployed 21Mbps eHSPA network, with a full commercial launch due early 2009."

Single call on an unloaded network is meaningless

[Anonymous Coward]

In theory HSDPA, the predecessor of HSPA+, provides 14.4Mbit/s, not that far off the data rates being advertised here. In practise it is virtually unuseable [apcmag.com]. Call me when HSPA+ is working at those data rates with a full customer base, though I doubt you will be able to because the network will be gridlocked.

"Network", not "Call"

[IorDMUX]

Perhaps the title could more accurately read "World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Network"", as 21 Mbps HSPA+ calls (which, though the summary downplays them, are really big breakthroughs) are "old news" [qctconnect.com].

Yeah, it's good to see this technology taking root out there, but don't forget about the engineers who made the tech happen in the first place! (In fact, given that Telestra's HSPA+ is not yet an active commercial network, I'm wondering what makes this trial so different from the dozens of "laboratory calls" made so far?)

Is it a breakthrough?

[bogaboga]

I ask because I have heard of faster speeds than the 21Mbps somewhere in Japan or Korea. What is in this for me anyway? I am just an ordinary slashdotter.

Re:Bring Lysol with me...

[TheRaven64]

If he's connected his C64 to the Internet, he is almost certainly running Contiki on it. Contiki can multitask using protothreads (stackless coroutines) and can handle multiple concurrent TCP connections (where multiple on a C64 is around 8). The newer versions also support IPv6, although since the v6 stack needs 2.5KB of RAM and around 11KB of code memory, you'd probably want to run it from ROM or upgrade to a C128.

Re:Bring Lysol with me...

[theaveng]

And here's an image of Contiki multitasking on a C=64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Contiki-C64.png [wikipedia.org]

Amazing. I thought the old Commie was too slow and too small to run multiple programs at the same time.