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CETECOM Spain launches the 1st RF conformance test
systems for WiMAX
Centro de Tecnología de las Comunicaciones
March 20, 2006
Málaga, Spain --
Centro de Tecnología de las Comunicaciones, S.A. (CETECOM), in Spain,
officially launched its MINT T2110 RF conformance test systems for WiMAX
at the WiMAX Forum
Customer Day that was held on February 23rd, 2006 at Novotel Tour Eiffel
Tower Hotel, during the WiMAX Forum Member Conference and Annual Meeting
in Paris.
The MINT family of test solutions for WiMAX comprises radio conformance
tester (MINT T2110), protocol conformance tester (MINT T2230) and
protocol analyser tool (MINT T2240).
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MINT T2110 is the official radio conformance set-up for WiMAX
certification of IEEE 802.16-2004 and ETSI HiperMAN devices. Based on
CETECOM technology and a set of standard test equipment, MINT T2110
covers the transmitter and receiver test cases for Base Stations and
Subscriber Stations according to the WiMAX CS 103 001 test
specification. Some of the key features of MINT T2110 are the full
coverage of test cases for WiMAX certification in the five profiles
defined by the WiMAX Forum in 3.5 and 5.8 GHz radio frequency spectrum,
the use of CETECOM Test Manager to automate the testing process and its
upgradeability to Mobile WiMAX. MINT T2110 is available now and will be
supplied to testing laboratories and some vendors in Europe, Asia and
North America.
MINT T2110
CETECOM also is
developing its MINT T2230 protocol conformance tester for Mobile WiMAX
testing, according to the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. The architecture
is based on CETECOM’s Dynamically Reconfigurable Wireless Signalling
Unit, built with picoChip´s hardware PC102 which allows scalability,
software reconfigurability and provides hardware engines for correlation
and path calculation. The MINT T2230 will include the official TTCN code
delivered by ETSI for certification and CETECOM will combine R&D efforts
with Aeroflex. Using the same architecture, the MINT T2240 is a protocol
analyser tool (sniffer) suitable to debug, test and verify the
development of the 802.16e-2005 protocol, which provides capturing,
decoding, filtering and displaying features. Both the MINT 2230 and 2240
will be released later on this year.
Andres Moreno,
Telecommunications Director at CETECOM Spain,
said “We are very proud to announce the first platform for WiMAX RF
testing. Radio Testing for WiMAX is complex, and the designation of MINT
T2110 as the official test system for WiMAX Forum CertifiedTM
testing provides our customers an unrivalled test environment for R&D,
pre-certification and final certification testing. This product
completes CETECOM’s portfolio of conformance test solutions for wireless
technologies, including 2G/3G, Bluetooth and RFID”.
About CETECOM
Spain
Centro de Tecnología de las Comunicaciones, S.A. (CETECOM Spain) is a
global supplier of Testing Solutions for wired and wireless technologies
(GSM/GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA, WiMAX, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, DECT and PSTN).
It services portfolio ranges from conformance, regulatory and
interoperability testing services to test systems development,
world-wide compliance services, training and consulting.
CETECOM underwent a share restructuring process in June 2004, led by the
Council for Innovation, Science and Enterprise (Consejería de Innovación,
Ciencia y Empresa), with the objective of expanding the international
scope of the company. The shareholders of CETECOM are currently
distributed between the Agency for Innovation and Development of
Andalusia - (49.05%), the Andalusian savings bank El Monte (24.53%),
Andalusia´s Industrial Verifications, Veiasa (24.53%) and Sadiel (1.90%)
For more information, please visit
www.cetecom.es |
