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'Evolution-Data Optimized or Evolution-Data only', abbreviated as 'EV-DO' or 'EVDO' and often 'EV', is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access. It is classified as a broadband technology, because it uses a broad band of radio frequencies. It employs multiplexing techniques such as CDMA (Code division multiple access) as well as Frequency division duplex (FDD) to maximize the amount of data transmitted. It is standardized by 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) as part of the CDMA2000 family of standards and has been adopted by many mobile phone service providers around the world – particularly those previously employing CDMA networks, as opposed to GSM networks.
The EV-DO feature of CDMA2000 networks is significantly faster than the Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) used by GSM networks. It provides access to mobile devices with air interface speeds of up to 2.4 Mbit/s with Rev. 0 and up to 3.1 Mbit/s with Rev. A. High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), a competing technology for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), along with the new Qualcomm Rev A modems have the ability to maintain both circuit switched voice and packet data calls from the same radio; this functionality is not available in Qualcomm Rev. 0 chipsets. It provides an IP based network.
There have been several revisions of the standard, named alphabetically starting with the first as 'Rev. A' ("revision A") while the first standard is referred to simply as 'Rev. 0'.

Contents

TIA-856 Rev 0

TIA-856 Rev A

TIA-856 Rev B

TIA-1121

Potential competing standards

See also

Network equipment suppliers

Cellular Routers

References and footnotes

External links

TIA-856 Rev 0

The initial design of EV-DO was developed by Qualcomm in 1999 to meet IMT-2000 requirements for a greater-than-2-Mbit/s downlink for stationary communications, as opposed to mobile communication such as a moving cellular phone. Initially, the standard was called High Data Rate (HDR), but was renamed to 1xEV-DO after it was ratified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); it was given the numerical designation 'TIA-856'. Originally, 1xEV-DO stood for "1x Evolution-Data Only", referring to its being a direct evolution of the 1x (1xRTT) air interface standard, with its channels carrying only data traffic. The title of the 1xEV-DO standard document is "cdma2000 High Rate Packet Data Air Interface Specification", as cdma2000 (lowercase) is another name for the 1x standard, numerically designated as TIA-2000.
Later, likely due to the possible negative connotations of the word "only", the "DO" part of the standard's name 1xEV-DO was changed to stand for "Data Optimized". So EV-DO now stands for "Evolution-Data Optimized", the 1x prefix has been dropped by the many major carriers, and is marketed simply as EV-DO. [1] This provides a more marketing-friendly emphasis that the technology was optimized for data transfers.

TIA-856 Rev A

Rev. A offers fast packet establishment on both the forward and reverse links along with air interface enhancements that reduce latency and improve data rates. In addition to the increase in the maximum burst downlink rate from 2.45 Mbit/s to 3.1 Mbit/s, Rev. A has a significant improvement in the maximum uplink data rate, from 153 kbit/s to a maximum uplink burst rate of 1.8 Mbit/s. This improvement assumes early acknowledgement of the first subpacket, typical data rates therefore average below 1 Mbit/s.

TIA-856 Rev B

EV-DO Rev B is a multi-carrier evolution of the Rev A specification. It maintains the capabilities of EVDO Rev A, and provides the following enhancements:

★ Higher rates per carrier (up to 4.9 Mbit/s on the downlink per carrier). Typical deployments are expected to include 3 carriers for a peak rate of 14.7 Mbit/s

★ Higher rates by bundling multiple channels together enhances user experience and enables new services such as high definition video streaming.

★ Uses statistical multiplexing across channels to further reduce latency, enhancing the experience for latency-sensitive services such as gaming, video telephony, remote console sessions and web browsing.

★ Increased talk-time and standby time

★ Hybrid frequency re-use which reduces the interference from the adjacent sectors and improves the rates that can be offered, especially to users at the edge of the cell.

★ Efficient support for services that have asymmetric download and upload requirements (i.e. different data rates required in each direction) such as file transfers, web browsing, and broadband multimedia content delivery.
A video demonstration of EVDO rev B capabilities can be found at [2]

TIA-1121

The evolution of cdma2000 is termed Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB).
Main articles: Ultra Mobile Broadband

Potential competing standards

Motorola proposed a new system called 1Xtreme as an evolution of CDMA2000, but it was rejected by 3GPP2 standardization body. Later, a competing standard called EV-DV developed by Qualcomm, Lucent, Nokia, Motorola, etc. in 3GPP2 was proposed as an alternate evolution of CDMA. EV-DV stands for Evolution-Data and Voice, since the channel structure was backwards compatible with IS-95 and IS-2000 (1xRTT), allowing an in-band network deployment. (EV-DO requires an overlay network when deployed in mixed mode.)
At the time, there was much debate on the relative merits of DV and DO. Traditional operators with an existing voice network preferred deploying DV, since it does not require an overlay. Other design engineers, and newer operators without a 1x voice network, preferred EV-DO because it did not have to be backward compatible, and so could explore different pilot structures, reverse link silence periods, improved control channels, etc. And the network cost was lower, since EV-DO uses an IP network and does not require a SS7 network and complex network switches such as a mobile switching center (MSC). Also, equipment was not available for EV-DV in time to meet market demands whereas the EV-DO equipment and mobile application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) were available and tested by the time the EV-DV standard was completed. As a result, the EV-DV standard was less attractive to operators, and has not been implemented. Verizon Wireless, then Sprint Nextel in 2004 and smaller operators in 2005 announced their plans to deploy EV-DO. So in March 2005, Qualcomm suspended development of EV-DV chipsets, and focused on improving the EV-DO product line.
Several network operators are transitioning their customers to HSDPA networks. In Australia, Telstra has announced the closure of its EV-DO network and is moving customers to its faster HSDPA network. In South Korea, KTF and SK Telecom have stopped investing in their CDMA2000 networks and in early 2007 began transitioning customers to their new HSDPA networks.
Producers' interest in CDMA is decreasing too. Nokia stated its decision to pull out of CDMA R&D, with the intention to continue CDMA business in selected markets.^[1]

See also

★ List of device bandwidths

★ List of Evolution-Data Optimized service providers

Network equipment suppliers

The following companies are leading providers of EV-DO infrastructure equipment:

★ Alcatel-Lucent is the leading supplier for a majority of CDMA operators, including Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel

★ Huawei

★ Ericsson has done several trials in China and has commercial deployment in South America.

★ Nortel

★ Airvana in partnership with Nortel, provides EVDO infrastructure to Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel in North America.

★ Motorola

★ Samsung

★ ZTE has deployed CDMA EVDO network successfully in Sudan and Morocco

Cellular Routers

★ cellular router

★ WAAV, Inc. is a manufacturer of EVDO and HSDPA routers. WAAV's AirBox X2 can connect to both networks at once.

References and footnotes

1. [3] [4] [5] [6]

External links

★ 3GPP2.org CDMA-2000 standards documents

★ CDMA Development Group (CDG)