Huawei has worked with Vodacom in South Africa, where it has tested a network performing up to 1Gbps, using LTE-LAA (Licensed Assisted Access) with three-way carrier aggregation across licensed and unlicensed bands. The demonstration, geared to dense indoor capacity, used Huawei’s small cell solution, LampSite. LTE-LAA’s main opportunities will be in this scenario – it allows LTE to run in 5 GHz, a high frequency band whose range and power limitations will dictate small access points. It has to work with a licensed spectrum LTE host network, which will typically support wide area mobility while LAA harnesses unlicensed frequencies to add capacity inside. In a separate trial Huawei and Vodacom also showed the LTE-LAA system coexisting with WiFi. Of course…