Huawei shows off Maglev train LTE: photos

Promotional shot of the Maglev train at Huawei's Shanghai campus.

The train runs on a magnetic levitation track that stretches for 31km from the centre of Pudong out to Pudong international airport. The train reaches a maximum speed of 431km/h with an average speed of 251km/h and a trip from end to end takes approximately seven minutes and 20 seconds.

The Maglev train departs.

Huawei boasts that the LTE network installed along the track will give passengers maximum uplink speeds of 50Mbps with a 99.5 per cent successful handover rate between cells.

A Huawei LTE dongle on display at the Shanghai campus.

Passengers board the Maglev train.

The Maglev train reaching maximum speed while connected to the LTE network.

As the train begins to depart, the connection to the LTE network maintains an average speed of around 46Mbps.

As the train reaches its maximum speed of 430km/h the connection is maintained with very few drop-outs. However, as another train passed by, there was a drop-out during the demonstration.

The LTE dongle connected to the testing laptop at Pudong station.

At maximum speed, the connection is maintained at an average of 36Mbps.

Josh Taylor travelled to Shanghai as a guest of Huawei.