Chinese telecom gear manufacturer, Huawei Technologies is matching Swedish major Ericsson on every step as far as LTE is concerned. The company today announced setting up of a new lab in Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan, first for the company in Asia-Pac region.

Set-up to provide a testing ground to operators in the region, the lab will also serve as an incubator for LTE technologies as well as serving as a training facility for the implementation and commercialization of the next-generation wireless technology.

According to the company, Huawei LTE Lab promises to offer a full suite of testing facilities including a real-time environment to test aspects such as peak throughput, latency, multi-users, quality of service (QoS), handover, Element-level Management System (EMS) operation and Self-Organizing Network (SON).

The lab is technically equipped to offer downlink data rate of up to 140 mbps through a single remote radio unit (RRU) with a bandwidth of 20 MHz. It will use Huawei’s DBS3900 base station apart from the company’s latest versions of commercial LTE software and test terminals. Huawei also has UMTS Lab in Japan.

Yan Lida, Representative and Managing Director of Huawei Japan said, “We are very pleased to be able to offer our customers in Japan the latest in LTE testing technology, and at greater convenience, as they partner with Huawei to ready their networks for commercial deployment of LTE solutions. By providing the best environment for innovation and training, we hope that we can contribute to our Japanese customers’ R&D efforts in this exciting field, and ultimately, to their continued business success.”

The vendor claims to have registered shipments totaling over 1.5 million for its 4G transceivers across the globe.