Huawei last week demonstrated the company’s LTE mobile broadband running on the super-fast Maglev train in Shanghai, according a article from ZDNet.

Huawei last week demonstrated the company’s LTE mobile broadband running on the super-fast Maglev train in Shanghai, according a article from ZDNet.

Huawei says that the LTE network installed along the track will give passengers maximum uplink speeds of 50Mbps with a 99.5 per cent successful handover rate between cells.

The train track stretches for 31km from the centre of Pudong out to Pudong international airport. The train reaches a maximum speed of 431km/h with an average speed of 251km/h.

Worldwide, Huawei has deployed over 60 LTE commercial and trial networks. Huawei is one of the few vendors in the industry that has completed an interoperability test between the LTE commercial network and the LTE commercial terminal.

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