Following the opening of its Tokyo LTE (Long Term Evolution) laboratory in June, Chinese telecom equipment supplier Huawei announced on July 27 that the company has set up another new LTE laboratory in North America, with an aim to help accelerate LTE development in the region, according to a press release by Huawei on July 28. Located at Richardson, Texas, the laboratory was originally opened as a prototype facility in fall of 2008 and recently has been fully upgraded to meet demand for commercial product launches in North America. Equipped with Huawei's SingleRAN DBS3900 eNodeB, the latest version of commercial LTE software and test terminals, the new facility is expected help Huawei's local R&D teams to collaborate closely with US and Canadian operators in testing LTE systems before launch. In 2008, Huawei conducted a LTE field test using AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) spectrum in the United States.