Agilent Technologies to Showcase Multiple Test Solutions at 4G World

Agilent Technologies, an electronic test and measurement provider and an active member of the 3GPP committees and WiMAX Forum, announced that it will showcase a number of test solutions at 4G World, Oct. 25-27, in Chicago.

The company will focus on LTE, multi-standard Radio 9 measurements (MSR), MIMO, and wireless link analysis using its X-Series signal analyzers, according to a press statement.

Communication service providers can benefit from Agilent’s handheld spectrum analyzer (HSA) family and the Agilent N9923A FieldFox RF Vector Network Analyzer as they make RF bench and field test easier.

The new Agilent N9083A/W9083A MSR measurement application for the X-Series signal analyzers is suitable for engineers manufacturing base stations and base-station components. They enable one-button, standards-based testing per the RF requirements defined in the TR 37 series of the 3GPP Release 9 standard.

While the MSR application allows engineers to perform transmitter tests on any combination of LTE-FDD, W-CDMA/HSPA/HSPA+ and GSM/EDGE/EDGE Evolution signals, the new 89600 WLA software is a MAC-layer complement to the company’s 89600 VSA software.

The MSR application is the first and only 3GPP-compliant one-button measurement application to manufacture MSR base stations and base-station components.

The WLA software provides wireless link analysis decoding control and feedback messages and then correlates them with the physical-layer signals they manage.

Recently, Agilent Technologies and Datang Telecom Group announced they established the TD-LTE-Advanced Joint Research Lab. TD-LTE-Advanced is a follow-on phase for the current TD-LTE standard. The joint research lab will focus on developing new technologies and test standards to promote TD-LTE-Advanced technologies.

The new lab is the second project created by the two firms. Engineers from both organizations will work together to develop TD-SCDMA, TD-LTE and TD-LTE-Advanced solutions. The work will support Datang Telecom's research on technologies, systems and chipsets, as well as Agilent's instrument test technologies.