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News Release from: Anritsu (UK) | Subject: W-CDMA BTS simulator
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 February 2005
Basestation simulator pre-empts new data
services
A new basestation simulator supports the HSDPA system and sets a precedent for practical datacommunication testing, featuring maximum datarate of 14Mbit/s.
At 3GSM 2005 Anritsu is previewing its new W-CDMA signalling tester, a BTS (basestation) simulator that supports the HSDPA system and sets a precedent for practical datacommunications testing, featuring maximum datarate of 14Mbit/s In addition to testing W-CDMA, GSM and GPRS system equipment, the simulator can also test wireless and protocol layers of mobile phone HSDPA channels based on the Release 5 of 3GPP standards
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The HSDPA system is characterised by stable datacommunications at a maximum speed of 14Mbit/s - faster than W-CDMA.
However, as HSDPA employs no BTS, a BTS simulator is indispensable for developing and verifying operations of chipsets and mobile phones at manufacturing sites.
The HSDPA-compatible W-CDMA signalling tester uses functions and development data of the conventional W-CDMA signalling tester and is a BTS simulator that can test functions of modulation/demodulation processing in mobile phones corresponding to various communication systems, protocol sequence (location registration, call/reception and handover), as well as application tests using HSDPA high-speed packets.
The HSDPA channel supports all 12 categories defined by the 3GPP standards.
Employing a new platform, realising high-speed throughputs of 30 times higher than for conventional platforms, it sets a precedent for practical datacommunications tests at a maximum of 14Mbit/s.
This enables it to cope with the more complex performance of next-generation mobile phones.
Moreover, used along with Anritsu's protocol test system (PTS), the new system will help users in building a total protocol conformance test environment conforming to 3GPP standards, from development to final verification of HSDPA chipsets and mobile phones.
The BTS simulator has been designed to accommodate as many of the customers' resources as possible.
The device allows the users of Anritsu's conventional equipment to complement existing resources and testing environments, eliminating the need to retrain developers and debuggers.
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