Date: 09/02/2010

Agilent adds new phone solution to its LTE drive test portfolio

Agilent has announced that it adds a new phone solution to its LTE drive test portfolio to expand the coverage monitoring capability of it's Drive Test Receiver, and to include interactive LTE network-performance testing.

The new LTE phone solution can scale to cover all RF network activities, including band clearing, troubleshooting and optimization. It also export results to Agilent's Signaling Analyzer Real Time (SART) for LTE, providing a unique end-to-end solution including the network core, base-stations and mobiles.

The performance measurements of new LTE phone solution are,

The changes in throughput as callers move around a network
Level of interference from different radio transmitters using the same frequency
How resources on LTE's shared channels are allocated at different times
How often data is retransmitted to complete a transaction, how rates vary from the middle to the edge of a cell, and how rates vary at different levels of the transmission stack
How frequently data sessions drop as callers move from cell to cell or how long it takes for hand-offs to succeed

"Agilent is one of the few test vendors to offer an LTE phone solution," said Dave Stewart, general manager of Agilent's Drive Test Business. "The scope, precision and accuracy of its measurements, the built-in pedigree in other wireless technologies, and the integration with SART for end-to-end protocol analysis, are unparalleled in the industry. Our complete Drive Test package will help customers quickly rollout high-bandwidth LTE networks and meet today's high-pressure, time-to-market challenges."

Availability: Now

For more details visit www.agilent.com