Qasara Demonstrates Virtual LTE Mobile at LTE World Summit

Qasara has announced the availability of a virtual LTE mobile platform. QasaraÃ's product, developed in collaboration with Rohde & Schwarz, incorporates a fully instrumented LTE protocol stack, emulating an LTE mobile device. QasaraÃ's Virtual LTE Mobile is fully interoperable with the Rohde & Schwarz's 3GPP LTE Virtual Tester, providing a coherent platform for infrastructure and terminal software development.

QasaraÃ's implementation allows peer-to-peer testing of the complex interactions and data flows between the LTE Medium Access Control (MAC), Radio Link Control (RLC) and Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Layers, all configured via Access Stratum and Non-Access Stratum control plane procedures.. Customers can benefit from the ongoing development and interoperability testing of QasaraÃ's LTE protocol stack through service packs delivered as the 3GPP LTE standard matures. Multiple instances of QasaraÃ's Virtual LTE Mobile can be run together to allow development and testing of the complex load balancing and scheduling algorithms required in LTE infrastructure.

"This product is a result of the excellent partnership we have with Rohde & Schwarz," stated Michael Barkway, Chief Executive at Qasara. "This product enables technology developers to put an independent reference design on the desk of every engineer building LTE products."

"QasaraÃ's Virtual LTE Mobile gives our customers access to QasaraÃ's LTE protocol implementation, with proven interoperability and a roadmap of enhancements added as the LTE standard matures. The ability of our integrated tool-chain to plot live message sequence charts, memory utilisation and perform automated testing makes this a very powerful system that can really enhance engineering productivity," added Rob Meades, Chief Operations Officer at Qasara.

QasaraÃ's Virtual LTE Mobile operates standalone, with a customerÃ's test peer, or can be used together with the Rohde & Schwarz 3GPP LTE Virtual Tester. The product is available now and can be purchased with maintenance and support on a site-wide basis.

Posted to the site on 10th November 2008