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Anritsu Launches LTE Base Station Simulator
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Anritsu Company
January 21, 2009
Anritsu Company introduces the MD8430A Signalling Tester, the industry's
first LTE base station simulator. Providing flexible and responsive
support for the latest 3GPP LTE standard, the MD8430A is a highly
accurate cost-effective solution for manufacturers of LTE chipsets and
mobile devices to evaluate their products and improve time to market.
Developed in conjunction with leading chipset manufacturers, the MD8430A
augments Anritsu's broad 3GPP test suite, providing developers of
wireless devices and systems with a single-source test solution company. |
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The MD8430A is designed with 4 RF
units that enable 2x2 MIMO system handover tests in a simulated network
environment. The base station simulator can conduct end-to-end testing
at downlink speeds up to 100 Mbps and uplink speeds up to 50 Mbps. All
critical 3GPP air-interface LTE protocol tests, including baseband
coding/decoding processing tests; protocol sequence tests, such as
position registration, origination, termination, handover, terminal and
network disconnect tests; and application tests, are supported. Powerful
L1/L2 cache analysis functions are provided as well.
Strong baseband evaluation support is ensured due to the design of the
MD8430A. It features a built-in digital baseband interface that supports
stable LTE chipset performance and function evaluation tests
irrespective of the performance of the RF section. Digital baseband
signals generated from a slow clock obtained by changing the clock
frequency produces highly reliable coding and decoding tests. The
MD8430A supports the severe mobile test environment required by LTE
mobile developers to evaluate performance, as well as the environment
required for high-reproducibility coding/decoding tests.
Test System Solution
The MD8430A can be easily integrated with Anritsu's MD8480C W-CDMA
Signalling Tester to create a measurement solution that can reduce
overall development costs. The MD8480C supports simulation of both
W-CDMA/HSPA (up to Release 7) and GSM/GPRS/EGPRS base stations, allowing
LTE-UTRAN/GERAN Inter-RAT handover tests to be made.
Further simplifying measurement and analysis is that the MD8430A can be
used with Anritsu's Protocol Test System (PTS) and Rapid Test Designer
(RTD). PTS is a 3GPP-compliant R&D and test tool environment for
creating and executing call connection scenarios in Testing and Test
Control Notation version 3 (TTCN-3). RTD offers an intuitive GUI for
managing libraries, and running tests ranging from terminal function
tests to operator terminal acceptance tests.
About Anritsu
Anritsu Company (www.us.anritsu.com) is the American subsidiary of
Anritsu Corporation, a global provider of innovative communications test
and measurement solutions for more than 110 years. Anritsu provides test
equipment for legacy and next-generation wired and wireless
communication systems. Anritsu products include wireless, optical,
microwave/RF, and digital instruments as well as operations support
systems for R&D, manufacturing, installation, and maintenance. Anritsu
also provides precision microwave/RF components, optical devices, and
high-speed electrical devices for communication products and systems.
With offices throughout the world, Anritsu sells in over 90 countries
with approximately 4,000 employees. |
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