Huawei Technologies announced setting up of a new lab in Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan, a ‘first’ for the company in Asia-Pacific 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. 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. The vendor claims to have registered shipments totaling over 1.5 million for its 4G transceivers across the globe.