Novatel Launches Industry’s Smallest Dual-Carrier HSPA+ USB Modem

By Matthew Chung on 09/21/2010 20:52 PDT

Novatel Wireless has announced that it will be offering the industry’s smallest Dual-Carrier HSPA+ USB modem, the Ovation MC545. The device was previously demonstrated to be capable of a maximum download speed of 40.5Mbps when running on Ericsson’s DC-HSPA+ network. The Ovation modem supports the 900, 1900, and 2100MHz 3G bands, though it doesn’t look like it will be hitting the US anytime soon. The modem also features a built-in microSDHC memory card slot that supports cards up to 32GB.

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HSPA+ is also known as Evolved High-Speed Packet Access. It is a mobile broadband protocol that was defined by the 3GPP standard, release 7. In Theory, the HSPA+ data rate can go up to 84 Mbps (Megabits per second) downstream (to the mobile), and 22Mbps upstream (back to the tower). These numbers are achieved by using multiple streams, so they should be considered theoretical and peak performance numbers. The HSPA+ specifications support up to 168Mbps of theoretical peak rate. Although many HSPA+ carriers call it 4G, it is very different from 4G LTE.

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