As the network OEMs race to show off the latest enhancements for LTE and future 5G, ZTE has demonstrated two innovations – Distributed MIMO and dual connectivity across TDD and FDD networks. The Chinese vendor said it had completed the world’s first pre-commercial test of D-MIMO, within its Cloud Radio architecture, which was launched in 2012 and is a proprietary platform for dynamic coordination of transmission networks, aiming to improve cell edge performance, especially in dense RANs, and to work smoothly with emerging MIMO architectures including Massive MIMO. The company said it succeeded in showing up to nine times faster data rates at the cell edge. The test used commercial devices in an outdoor environment with multiple overlapping base stations.…