Date: 29/07/2009

Aeroflex TM500 TD-LTE mobile test tool achieved hand-off between multiple base stations

Aeroflex has announced its TM500 TD-LTE mobile test tool has achieved hand-off between multiple TD-LTE base stations.

"The TM500 TD-LTE's ability to support hand-off between multiple base stations allows network infrastructure equipment vendors to fully demonstrate true TD-LTE network mobility for the first time," said Ross Broadhurst, business development manager for the Aeroflex TM500 TD-LTE. "Demonstrating mobility is fundamentally important to the realization of base station vendors' ongoing development and sales plans. It also further underlines Aeroflex's leadership position in global LTE test."

TD-LTE is the Time Division Duplex version of LTE and an evolution of existing TD-SCDMA technology. It allows the efficient allocation of downlink resources and opens up the unpaired spectrum for LTE.

"The TM500 TD-LTE is proving an invaluable test tool in accelerating the base station development programs of the network infrastructure vendors we have been working with on the mobility trials," said Stephen Hire, director of marketing for Aeroflex Asia. "Fast becoming the TD-LTE test mobile of choice, it ensures that base station vendors have the earliest access to the latest 3GPP functionality, providing the layered operation and extensive analytical data they need to meet their development objectives."

The TM500 TD-LTE's extensive Layer 1, Layer 2 and higher layer test features provide complete visibility even into the lowest layers of the radio modem by generating the detailed diagnostic data needed to verify the required functionality and optimize network operation and performance. With support for MIMO and 20MHz channel bandwidths, UE CAT4 support of 150Mbit/s downlink data rates, multi-UE operation and now handover testing, it enables comprehensive development and test support of base station and network infrastructure for the next generation of Chinese mobile technology.