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LTE: Why does one to many relationship required between an eNodeB and multiple MMEs ?

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We know, in lte, an eNodeB can connect to multiple MMEs. Can someone please explain in details ?
Apart from load balancing, is there any other reason ?

posted May 13, 2014 by Vimal Kumar Mishra

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Its not just load balancing, connection to the multiple MME make an inbuild redundancy in the system. In the UMTS/GSM operator need to install the MSC and an redundant MSC (in most of the cases) which can be saved here.
commented May 13, 2014 by Salil Agrawal

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LTE Ran-Sharing feature, eNodeB connects to multiple MMEs using s1-flex.

answer Jun 12, 2014 by Sanjeet Kumar
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