Since LTE Release 10 up to 5 component carriers may be aggregated, allowing for transmission bandwidths of up to 100 MHz. Using five aggregated component carriers, MIMO and 256QAM allows theoretical data rates of up to 2 gigabits per second.
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As mentioned earlier, there are two types of carrier aggregation: contiguous; and non-contiguous. Non-contiguous carrier aggregation can be in the form of intra-band or inter-band. The different types of carrier aggregation will result in different deployment scenarios.
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